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By Sam Donoghue is head of children’s and youth ministry support for the Diocese of London, and consulting editor for Premier Youth and Children’s Work. 2017-01-19T00:00:00

I was recently walking through the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral and saw a poster which caught my attention. It was made up of lots of sentences about stories. And there, in the corner was a quote that has been running around my mind ever since. The phrase, a Neil Gaiman-warping of G. K. Chesterton, read, ‘Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.’

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