Sunday Firesides: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (According to a Stoic)

One of the most difficult existential questions is why bad things happen to good people, especially if there's a just, benevolent force at the helm of the universe.

Seneca, an ancient Stoic philosopher, offers an answer that invites us to consider ourselves as athletes and warriors.

He first observes that the “part of each man which he exercises is the st…