possibility of cancer is the necessary price of the evolution of new life. A profound problem remains, beyond the reach of intellectual argument alone. One of my main reasons for being a Christian is that Christianity speaks to the problem of suffering at the deepest possible level. The Christian God is not just a compassionate spectator, looking down in pity on the bitterness of the strange world that God has made. We believe that the Creator has been a fellow participant in the world’s suffering,