Eric Metaxas interviews Walter Hooper, friend and secretary of C.S. Lewis, about Lewis’s life and writings--uncovering fascinating stories about the beloved Oxford don.
The world owes a great debt of gratitude to Walter Hooper for this incredible interview and Eric Metaxas for pulling it out of him. Thank you Eric for your persistence in getting this interview recorded. I hope we meet one day.
I'm listening to the Hooper interviews for the 3rd time and loving them more each time. I'm sharing my own introduction to Lewis here. Lewis has had an enormous impact on my life and faith. I encountered him in 1963, a month after he died. I married young & had just begun my university studies that year. when my daughter started kindergarten. I had an English professor who was a fallen-away Catholic and devotee of Black Magic. He enjoyed regaling the 18 year old students with tales of his adventures in the occult. The one other older student in the class and I sat in the back row and silently prayed for protection on the class. But one day, while the prof was standing at the board, outlining Structure Linguistics, he put down his chalk, gazed out the window and in a far-away voice said, “The only thing I’ve ever read that made me wonder about the wisdom of my search in the occult was a small book by a British writer named C.S. Lewis. It’s called the Screwtape Letters and he says that the Devil loves a materialist and a magician equally.” My other Christian classmate and I dashed madly to the U of MN Union bookstore and bought Screwtape. Over the next 5 or 6 years I read almost everything Lewis had written. I often wonder who I would have become if I hadn’t discovered Lewis at that stage of my life. JoAnn Magnuson
153 fish (John 21) 1+5+3=9 You will find nine signs and nine "I ams" in John. The nine signs support the claims of the nine "I ams".... He performed more signs and he could have caught more fish but nine, nine and 153 (the ninth sign) were enough.
