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 ...

Source: Bernhard Christoph Francke/WIkimedia Commons/Public Domain. Many people who have heard of Gottfried Leibniz first heard of him through Voltaire’s satirical Candide (1759), in which Leibniz is ...

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, ...

WHY do ordinary people do appalling things? This problem has vexed scholars for centuries. Early Christian theologians, for example, spent an inordinate amount of time trying to reconcile the idea of ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...