The question that Cain asks resonates through the ages: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The short answer is “yes.” Jesus spoke in the Sermon of the Mount of the need for “surpassing righteousness.” He pushes the negative injunction found in the commandment of avoiding murder into a positive admonition on proper behavior toward our neighbor. We can’t rest content that we haven’t murdered anyone. Instead, we must ask ourselves “what have I done to promote life in my brothers and sisters?” Of course, we do so precisely because there isn’t anyone out there who isn’t brother or sister or mother to me. We are all children of our heavenly Father and thus are bound together. There are no strangers, only kin we don’t yet know.