Has God slammed a door in your face? Tyler Staton on suffering

Why does C.S. Lewis still speak so powerfully to people decades after his death?

Tyler Staton, lead pastor of Bridgetown Church and author of After Amen, joins Ruth Jackson to explore what Lewis can still teach us about prayer, suffering, desire, imagination and finding God when he seems absent.

From Mere Christianity and The Weight of Glory to A Grief Observed, The Screwtape Letters and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Tyler reflects on the Lewis ideas that have shaped his own faith and helped him through cancer.

They discuss:

• Why imagination matters for faith

• What apologetics can learn from Lewis’s storytelling

• Whether our deepest desires point to God

• How to notice God in ordinary life

• What to do when prayer feels unanswered

• Why honest doubt can itself become prayer

• Where to start if you are new to C.S. Lewis

Tyler’s advice when God feels absent is striking: “We pray our doubt.”