We're talking about C.S. Lewis again in light of the coming desire and guide national

conference devoted to Lewis's legacy later this fall.

Pastor John, you met in a sense, C.S. Lewis in 1964, a year after he died.

How did you meet him?

What were your early thoughts of his works?

As I've tried to ponder Lewis's impact on me, my memory is not good enough to beat

completely accurate about this, so let me answer this way.

From 1964, when I went to Wheaton College as an 18-year-old, to 1968, Wheaton College

Clyde Kilby, Professor of Romantic Literature, the foremost Lewis scholar in America at that

time, and C.S. Lewis in his writings all merged into one big impact, so it's very hard

for me to sort out.

Was it Lewis?

Was it Kilby?

Was it the very atmosphere of Wheaton?

But here's the pieces that I recall as exploding with significance for me in those four

years.

And I hear the key words, lucidity or lucid, logical, illuminating, large-hearted, joyful

longing, all those ills.

Lewis was a man of crystal clarity in his thinking and writing.

Definitions really mattered to Lewis.

What you don't mean matters.

So he made clear, here's what I don't mean, not just what I do mean.

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