For most shows, I’d use these first paragraphs to explain why we’ve chosen to spend an hour on its particular topic. I’d remind you of events in the news. I’d site a publication date. I’d point out a trend that we’ve maybe noticed that you maybe haven’t.
For today’s show, for instance, I could type a list of towns here — international towns, domestic towns, Connecticut towns — and you’d recognize them all as spots on a map that share a wound, as place names that represent a raw, unhealed sore in our shared memory.
But for today’s show? For a show about evil?
For today’s show about evil, I don’t even have to explain why.
And that is the problem. That is the why.
This hour, we look at the concept, the fact, the problem of evil. We look at it through a collection of lenses — philosophical, theological, ontological. We ask what it means. We ask what it means about humanity. We ask what it means about the universe. We ask what it means about God.
GUESTS:
- Keith DeRose – professor of philosophy at Yale
- Frank Kirkpatrick – professor of religion at Trinity College, ordained Episcopal priest
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Colin McEnroe, Betsy Kaplan, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
