Making Sense of Suffering: How Can a Good God Allow Evil?

Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is there suffering and pain in this world when God is all powerful, all loving, and all good? How can we make sense of all the evil that exists? Come hear David Wood offer sensitive, credible answers to these tough questions, followed by a discussion with Professor of Law and Philosophy, Professor Thomas Gerety from the NYU Law School. The Q&A... [read more]

Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is there suffering and pain in this world when God is all powerful, all loving, and all good? How can we make sense of all the evil that exists? Come hear David Wood offer sensitive, credible answers to these tough questions, followed by a discussion with Professor of Law and Philosophy, Professor Thomas Gerety from the NYU Law School. The Q&A session will be moderated by David Pinsof, President of Atheists, Agnostics, & Freethinkers at NYU.

David Wood is a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at Fordham University where he is finishing up his PhD. A former atheist, David converted to Christianity after examining the evidence for God’s existence and the historical evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. He has degrees in biology and philosophy and is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the Evangelical Philosophical Society. David lives in the Bronx, NY, with his wife Marie and his four sons—Lucian, Blaise, Reid, and Paley

Tom Gerety is Collegiate Professor at New York University and teaches in both the Law School and the College of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Gerety first came to NYU in 2003 to head up the Brennan Center for Justice at the Law School. Before that he served as president of Amherst College from 1994 to 2003 and of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1989 to 1994. From 1986 to 1989 he was the Dean and Nippert Professor at the College of Law of the University of Cincinnati. His recent book is The Freshman Who Hated Socrates. Dr.Gerety received his B.A. from Yale College in 1969 and completed his Ph.d and J.D. at Yale in 1976.

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