we feel the pain of those whom god hasn t chosen. if a fit of jealousy, cain kills his brother, able. this was sort of the first example that we ever saw of murder. and, you know, the gravity with which god holds the taking of human life. and yet, with the passage of thousands of years, human kind is still at it. as surely as cain killed able, the slaughter of innocence continues in the very place the bible tells us this story was set, today s syria. racked by the most brutal of wars. and in a sleepy town in connecticut, the horrifying m i massacre of children in their elementary school. how do we make sense of our torn world and our torn personalities and the conflicts and the despair we fall into when we see suffering and injustice? what i think the bible does really well is help us ask