“With such a distinguished line up, you likely won't be disappointed! The book is friendly and insightful, and has one of the most important virtues of any book—it's short.” – Tyron Goldschmidt

Six titles in this series:
Conversations about the Meaning of Life;
Conversations about God and the Problem of Evil;
Conversations about Harming Animals;
Conversations about the Philosophy of Love and Desire;
Conversations about Time Travel and Teleporters
Conversations about Lockdown

Does God exist? Even in a world filled with suffering?

In this thoughtful conversation, leading thinkers Graham Oppy and Sam Lebens discuss God and the problem of evil.Oppy, a prominent atheist, challenges the religious to explain how an all-good, all-powerful, and all-knowing God could permit evil in the world.

Could God banish all past, present, and future evils?

Lebens argues that God might remove all the wrongdoing and suffering from history. Not just from the history books, but from history itself: one day there never will have been any war or disease.

If you want to understand the most challenging argument against God’s existence, and want an accessible, intelligent guide to the mysteries of creation, you’ll love this book.

Graham Robert Oppy
(born 1960) is an Australian philosopher whose main area of research is the philosophy of religion. He currently holds the posts of Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and serves as CEO of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Chief Editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review, Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia.He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009.
Graham Oppy was born in Benalla on 6 October 1960 to a Methodist family, but he ceased to be a religious believer as a young teenager,and is now an atheist.His family moved to Ballarat in 1965 and had his secondary schooling at Wesley College, Melbourne. He attended Melbourne University from 1979, where he completed two degrees: a BA (Hons) in philosophy and a BSc in mathematics. In 1987 he started graduate work at Princeton University under the supervision of Gilbert Harman on questions in the philosophy of language.
He was a lecturer at the University of Wollongong from 1990 to 1992 and after doing a post-doc at the Australian National University, he moved to Monash as a senior lecturer, and was promoted to professor in 2005. He is currently Associate Dean of Research (since 2004) and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University.


Samuel Lebens
Samuel Lebens is associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Haifa, he is also an Orthodox Rabbi and Jewish educator. His first book was a study of Bertrand Russell's evolving theories about the nature of meaning. His second book is a study in the analytic philosophy of Judaism.
Sam's academic interests span the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. He is also the co-founder and served as the founding chair of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism. He studied for his PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and at Rutgers University.
As a Rabbi and Jewish educator, Sam regularly teaches at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. Sam is also adjunct faculty at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies and has been a scholar in residence for numerous communities around the world. He studied at Yeshivat Hakotel, Yeshivat Hamivtar, and Yeshivat Har Etzion before attaining his Rabbinic Ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg זצ"ל.

Jason Werbeloff is a science fiction author with a PhD in Philosophy. He has published over a dozen novels, and co-hosts the Brain in a Vat Philosophy YouTube channel together with Mark Oppenheimer.

Mark Oppenheimer studied philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is a practicing advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, and has appeared in the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court.