Caraboolad, Arla

"If there is a loving God, why did all those horrible things happen to me as a child?" was the most frequent question Arla Caraboolad was asked in her first teaching position. She was 22. The setting was the California prison for women. The question began a search for answers: How much was God involved in life on earth? Was He responsible for the bad that happened to us as well as the good? What was "evil," really? How much of it came from us, and how much from somewhere else? Was God responsible? Twenty years as a Marriage and Family Therapist have aided that exploration. And because God was