“The Christian story is that we live in a world that has become a curse to us because our first representatives, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God. The world ministers this curse to us in many ways, death by old age, and death by tsunamis - some dramatic, some that we have domesticated and made tame. But all death is the enemy. And it is a wonder that the goodness of creation keeps poking through the curse. A sunset here, a breathtaking vista there, a beautiful person or a beautiful rock.” J.Barlow