Theodicy

Jason Byassee reviews Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason, a book he says takes on evil from the inside—and laughs.

Is God’s love of any material benefit to trauma survivors, particularly to survivors of sexualized violence?

Von Balthasar’s theology of the Trinity provides a compelling framework in which Christians can engage the problem of evil, including its recent formulations by the New Atheism.

In Part I of a three-part interview, Irish philosopher Richard Kearney discusses the themes of evil, ethics, and the imagination.

In this adapted excerpt from his part memoir and part theological treatise, The Devil Wears Nada, Tripp York seeks out the Prince of Darkness by confronting a neo-druid and some Satanists.

In this essay, Ryan Davis wrestles with God’s goodness and Scriptural promises in the face of profound physical suffering.

In a not-so-rare move these days, the Son of God took some time off from ignoring the plight of almost one billion starving humans in order to help his main man, Tim Tebow, win yet another football game. In a nail-biter, Jesus (as apparent from the post-game shout-out) gave Tebow just enough divine aid to […]

John Piper didn’t waste any time. Six days after the devastating earthquake in Japan, he published a post on his Desiring God blog entitled “Japan: After Empathy and Aid, People Want Answers.”  Here the revered Reformed Baptist theologian and pastor plunges (as he has done on many occasions before) boldly into the field of theodicy. […]

Dear God, Could you please stop fixing sporting events? Your unpredictability is killing me at the betting table. I can never figure out who you’re helping. One moment you’re hooking up Steve Smith with the Panthers (well, you used to hook him up–he must have been a naughty boy this past year), and the next […]