God never intended for humans to go it alone. When individuals shun or are shunned or fail to experience loving relationships, they shrivel and die. The need to live and thrive in community goes back to the beginning. After God called everything in His original creation “very good” (Gen. 1:31), He noticed one “not good” thing in that otherwise perfect order: “It is not good that the man should be alone” (2:18). To solve Adam’s need for companionship, God paraded all the animals before Adam, but none