this mood of helplessness and impotence. There are answers,28 and it is urgently important to declare what some of them are. In the third place, there is the need for awareness of what God is doing in our time. On this point we break through some of the mood just described to affirm that many of the “signs of the times”29 point to God’s presence and activity. There is doubtless much that is negative; for example, humanism and atheism, witchcraft and the occult, immorality and bestiality—all are on