10/29/2026
A very special thanks to Rev. Ken Tolley for an outstanding workshop last week, “If God is Good, Why Do Bad Things Happen?”.
The workshop encompassed the difficulty of unpacking religious trauma and making space for unanswered questions through learning about how to apply widely diverse theodicies, anti-theodicies, and delving into the lives of the most well-known biblical heroes to understand how they too, experienced suffering and triumph.
By looking into the historical arguments that have attempted to reconcile the coexistence of evil and suffering in the word with the existence of an all-powerful (omnipotent) and all-good (omnibenevolence) God, gave participants incredible tools to help in the hard conversations with clients and loved ones when asked the difficult question, why does God allow bad things to happen?
Again, a big thanks to Rev. Ken Tolley and to our very own therapist, Sarah Stanley, for an amazing job well done!
