John E. Thiel is a professor of religious studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., and the author of God, Evil and Innocent Suffering: A Theological Reflection.

Michael C. Rea is a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of its Center for Philosophy of Religion. He co-directs “The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought,” a four-year research initiative at the university, and is co-editor of a book of essays titled Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (2011).

Samuel Newlands is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of a four-year research initiative there titled “The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought.” He teaches a graduate-level seminar at Notre Dame on evil and previously taught a class at Yale University on free will, God and evil..

Terry Eagleton, a noted British scholar and cultural theorist, is currently distinguished professor of english literature at Lancaster University. His books include On Evil (2010), which examines ideas about evil through the lenses of literature, religion and psychoanalysis.

At The Tablet, the online Jewish periodical, Marc Tracy explores how Christopher Hitchens’ late-in-life discovery of his Jewish roots affected his writing.

Read a column at CNN.com by Larry Alex Taunton, a Christian apologist and head of the Fixed Point Foundation who frequently debated Christopher Hitchens on religion. Taunton reflects on Hitchens’ death.

Read an essay by Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ death.

At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, wrote a post about his dying friend Christopher Hitchens.

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher wrote about suffering and conversion in response to Mark Judge’s Dec. 8, 2011, column on Christopher Hitchens.