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These days, some call it “Turkey Day,” not Thanksgiving. They do so, not out of any enthusiasm for eating turkey, but more out of an attempt to evade the idea that we should be thanking someone, i.e. God, for our blessings. So, they remove the “thanks” out of Thanksgiving Day. However, they still have not adequately reckoned with “the problem of goodness.”

Christianity’s naysayers are always quick to point out “the problem of evil.” They point to the messes and tragedies of our world — the wars, injustice, oppression, disease, suffering and then ask: why is there so much evil in the world? How could a good and powerful God let it happen? Thus, they conclude, there is no God.

In his book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis explains how his own atheism collapsed. He says, “My a

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