Perhaps you've seen the much discussed movie, released by Netflix recently, about notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who died in an electric chair in a Florida prison in 1989.  When I was invited to watch the movie, I hesitated; I was reluctant to expose myself to such abject horror.

     Happily, however, the movie did not so much focus on the graphic details of Bundy's crimes as it did the relationships he developed with two women along the way.  The first woman he befriended had a daughter, and Bundy cared for them greatly.  The second woman was an old friend with whom he got reacquainted and eventually married during his murder trial in Florida.  She later became pregnant by him.
     Watching these relationships unfold was a bit like reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or grappling with the nature of the Roman god Janus, famously depicted as one with two faces, one good, the other evil.  In a rather perversely fascinating way, it made me wonder, again, about the capacity of the human being to balance and, consciously or not, integrate two totally opposite moral positions into what appears to be an outwardly settled life.  What kind of creature has God made?
     And how does this fit into the idea that humans are made in the image of God?  Although I'm not completely sure, I came away from the movie struck, once more, by the complexity of a world created by a divine intelligence yet one enjoyed and exploited by the human being.
     Whither does one go?