Theodicy Stories

Three friends travel through time and space to learn about the nature of good and evil, human suffering, and contemporary Lutheran theology. Also, there's a sock puppet...

Job replies.

A series of informal essays from a Christian perspective. Topics chosen by popular demand. PM me if you want something answered. Cover is St. John the Theologian, in the...

Job answers.

Job answers.

Quite a few people undergo an extreme form of suffering. This need not be their doing. Imagine a child born to a mother, who's a drug addict. Born out of wedlock, this...

Zophar finds Job's penitence insufficient.

Job curses the day he was born.

We were not only shocked to see the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames, but we were also shocked to see the speed at which donors pledged money to rebuild th...

'Why did God create a world with Coronavirus?' is a legitimate question of a suffering person. Could God not have created a world without natural disasters, such as Coro...

Theodicy is a philosophy which examines God's apparent silence during times of human need. I wrote this piece as if God had returned to Earth and no one even noticed. T...

Eliphaz the Temanite admonishes Job.

My entire site is a theodicy site, one that attempts to understand and defend God's goodness despite evil/pain/suffering in my individual life and the world around me...

When you have been suffering for years together, there are periods of time when you would not want to hope. These are moments when hope hurts. I pray this article would...

Bildad the Shuhite answers.

If God designed the Coronavirus, then HE should be evil. But why is God not evil despite the unprecedented harm caused by Coronavirus? Also, an interesting fact during J...

Job answers.