When Johann Christoph Blumhardt, a nineteenth-century German pastor, agreed to counsel a tormented woman in his parish, all hell broke loose. But that was only the beginning of the drama that ensued. Zündel’s account provides a rare glimpse into how the fight between the forces of good and evil plays itself out in the lives of the most ordinary men and women. More than that, it reminds us that those forces still surround us today, whether we are awake to them or not.