Adam and Eve are sent out of the garden of God. Cain is sent away from his fellow man. Put together, the stories of Adam and Eve and their son Cain are as short as they are tragic. But they are also incredibly illuminating for our modern predicament. We were made for people, but we are cursed to restless wandering. And a key feature of this curse in both stories is that isolation is both the cause and the consequence of our sin.
