What is the meaning of the word "theodicy"?

What are one or two different strategies that people have adopted in service to the goals and aims of theodicy? For example, The Free Will Defense.

Without getting too personal, what has been one encounter with evil you have negotiated in your own life?

How did you handle it?

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Initial posting must be 250 words in length,

Two follow-up responses to your peers must be 125 words in length

Find, utilize, and cite in correct APA format one resource.

Sections 1 - 2 of "Process Philosophy", Online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Source: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

Theory of Relativity - Factual Implications, All About Science
Source: http://www.allaboutscience.org/theory-of-relativity.htm

Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/dimitar_sasselov_how_we_found_hundreds_of_potential_earth_like_planets

Agnostics and Agnosticism:
Source: http://www.religioustolerance.org/agnostic.htm