Love is staying home

N THE AFTERMATH OF MURDERING HIS BROTHER, Cain is posed a simple question by God. “Where is your brother Abel?” God asks. Cain—we imagine him here as a sullen teenager, which perhaps he was—responds with a question of his own. “I do not know,” he says. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” It’s an insubordinate question, a trick of a young man trying to shirk responsibility and