Not long ago a newspaper carried an unusual headline. It read, "Test Takes Risk Out of Dyeing." Now, obviously, it was talking about dyeing hair. An expert was being quoted as saying that before dyeing your hair, you should test one strand to see how it works. Now that seems to make good sense to me. But it was the headline which attracted my attention: "Test Takes Risk Out of Dyeing."

Another recent news article intrigued me even more. It was a report that archaeologists in the Holy Land had uncovered the tomb of the High Priest Caiaphas. It was Caiaphas, you remember, who presided over the plot to have Jesus arrested, convicted, and crucified. Do you know what they found when they opened his tomb? They found Caiaphas, or I should say, they found the decayed bones of the man who instigat…