its heart, wrong because it is understanding only at an experiential level. It is only the experience we have “under the sun,” as Solomon put it long ago. It has no point from outside of life by which it can be understood. Nevertheless, we are all experiencing the same thing. It is Christian faith that gives us both an ultimate explanation of what has happened as well as the deepest knowledge of what is happening at ground level. The biblical answer to why we have lost our center, then, is rather