If God loves us, why does He let us suffer? This age-old question is still one of the more difficult questions facing Christian theists. My role as a parent makes the intuitive appeal of the question ...

The problem of evil is a philosophical conundrum that suggests it is impossible for a being that is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good to create a world with evil. After all, this being would ...

In this episode of the Sunday Catholic Word, we going to focus on five details found in all the Mass readings for this upcoming 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A. One detail comes from the first ...

In 2010, the philosopher Stephen Law published a paper called The Evil God Challenge that tries to prove atheism with a simple thought experiment. And in today’s episode, I’ll show how to answer this ...

What does it mean to have faith, to believe in a God who is present when it seems like power and greed inevitably win? In the face of these kinds of questions it often feels like we need to address ...

PROF. RYLE's book has, he tells us, been written both for believers and unbelievers to hearten and console men and women in times of trial and trouble. He assures them that pain and fear are natural ...

Source: Violetbonmua / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 This post is Part 1 of a series. In my view, the problem of human evil has, with few exceptions (see, for example, Jung, Frankl, Lifton, May, ...