Recently as I was driving down the main street of my hometown, I happened to see what struck me as a very strange sight: A man dressed in the full vestiges of a priest, with long, dark hair pulled out of the way with a hair band, and a nearly equally long beard flowing down his gaunt chest.

Perhaps that's not such a strange sight in some cities, but what struck me about it was that he was talking on a cell phone. Believe it or not, that's what I found odd. Not the long ...