Elizabeth Lewis

President of Consumer Banking & Chief Marketing Officer, Cna Financial

Search every verified Elizabeth Lewis interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, a professor of psychology at Biola University's Rosemead School of Psychology, delivered a lecture series titled "Lament: The Path Through Suffering" in September 2021. Drawing on her personal experience with a breast cancer diagnosis at age 45, Hall discussed how the biblical psalms of lament offer a framework for engaging with suffering. She argued that contemporary American culture often reduces suffering to something to be avoided, which can limit engagement with one's own pain and the pain of others. Hall stated that the psalms encourage standing with others through suffering rather than distracting them or pointing out silver linings, describing the way out of suffering as "through it not around it." In her lecture, Hall addressed the concept of eschatological hope, stating that Christian hope does not silence the sufferer by distracting from present circumstances. She said that suffering can be reconceptualized as a mechanism that brings individuals closer to a future eschatological vision, and that difficult life events are not diminished but seen in the context of a "future hope." Hall noted that while Christ has defeated suffering and death, believers are still living in anticipation of the end of the story, and there remains a need for lament.