Is protest theology a theodicy — or something else entirely? In this episode of Beyond Simple Answers, theologians Scott Rice, Greg Fung, and Kristin T. Lee debate whether protest theology and liberation theology truly qualify as theodicies, or whether they function as responses to evil rather than intellectual solutions to it. The conversation explores the "three-legged stool" of theodicy — God's omnipotence, God's goodness, and the reality of evil — and asks whether protest and liberation theology can hold all three legs at once. A rich, honest discussion for anyone wrestling with faith, suffering, and the problem of evil.

In this final Beyond Simple Answers Q&A, Scott Rice, Greg Fung, and Kristin T. Lee explore some of Christianity’s hardest questions about suffering, evil, prayer, and the presence of God. Can protest be a faithful form of prayer? Why does it matter that Christ suffers with us? And can Christianity truly explain evil?

Drawing from Job, the Psalms, process theology, liberation theology, and personal experiences of grief and loss, this conversation wrestles honestly with faith, doubt, lament, forgiveness, and theodicy. If you’ve ever questioned God in suffering or wondered where God is in death and pain, this episode is for you.