For millennia, the concept of an omniscient God — a deity who knows every sparrow that falls, every thought that forms, and every star that burns across the vast expanse of the cosmos — has boggled ...

People often wonder why bad things happen to good people. Or, why bad things happen at all, really. Some use this as part of their basis for atheism, saying that they don’t understand why God would ...

In my 20s, I had a friend who was brilliant, charming, Ivy-educated and rich, heir to a family fortune. I'll call him Gallagher. He could do anything he wanted. He experimented, dabbling in ...