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Alister: Yes, although there is more that needs to be said. Lewis\u2019s raw and brutally honest account of his feelings and fears as he came to terms with his wife\u2019s death may shock some. Others find it totally authentic, and find him to be someone they can trust as they wrestle with the same issues and concerns. Many pastors find it difficult to acknowledge doubts, or accept that some of their flock ask deep and troubling questions which demand honest answers. Lewis is someone who they feel they can trust here, especially when they tire of slick and simple answers to the problem of suffering. Lewis helps them to see that they can live with questions, and don\u2019t have to have neat answers to them all. Above all, Lewis shows us how it\u2019s more important to be able to cope with suffering than to be able to provide a glib answer to why it happens. <\/p>\n

For me, one of Lewis\u2019s greatest achievements was to show how stories could capture our imaginations, and thus make us receptive to the ideas that they convey. Narnia creates intellectual space within our minds for the truths of faith \u2013 not by rational argument, but by making us wish that these things were true, and then showing us that this might indeed be the case. I know quite a few people who came to faith by first falling in love with Aslan! <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"