It seems that every weekday morning, before tourists and schoolchildren descend on London's Trafalgar Square, city-authorized volunteers toss more than a hundred pounds of bird seed to a swarm of hungry pigeons. Then, four hours later, the city pays for a trained hawk to fly around the square and chase the pigeons away (Wall Street Journal, 11 February 2005). Anyone identify with those poor pigeons?

Not since the first century has the Christian church faced a culture as confused and confusing as ours.

Just take the world of medicine. Anyone confused like I am? Does it seem to you that one study is always negating the finds of the previous study?

Hormone replacement therapy is great. No. Hormone replacement therapy causes cancer. Saccharine causes cancer; Nutrasweet is good. No. Nutrasweet …