Earlier there was some discussion of the problem of evil, particularly in relation to Haiti. Here's a bit more on the problem of evil from the Wall Street Journal. I saw the article thanks to the Leiter blog.

'If Leibniz is right, then natural disasters aren't the result of divine punishment for sin. They are the foreseen but unintended consequences of a well-regulated and overall good system of natural laws. So religious believers can explain the causes of earthquakes in purely natural terms (Leibniz was an avid scientist himself), while still maintaining belief in a divine, nonpunitive purpose for allowing such events. The harmonization of natural and theological explanations, reason and faith, is Leibniz's true legacy.'