I am currently running a Saturday morning breakfast Alpha Course. We chat over coffee, eat breakfast and then have a short interactive talk about an aspect of the Christian faith. It's a lot of fun. Every church runs Alpha slightly differently; my church inserted a talk on 'suffering and wholeness' several years ago, a talk which isn't in the Alpha book, but clearly should be. I decided to tackle the topic by looking at a range of different responses we might make to pain and tragedy. The terrible events of the previous week focused my mind somewhat: the horrendous shootings in Orlando motivated by homophobic hate; the savage murder of Jo Cox by a man who seems to be a white supremacist with significant mental health problems. What are the different ways Christians try to process these kinds of events, along with the many smaller, lower profile but equally devastating disappointments, losses and hurts we suffer ever day? ' If we pray, God will save us&