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"'Closer to the Spirit of Christ': An Introduction to George MacDonald": Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
"'Closer to the Spirit of Christ' - An Introduction to George MacDonald, the author C.S. Lewis called 'My Master'": A Webinar with Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring George MacDonald scholar Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson.
The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience.
About this webinar
"I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him. But it has not seemed to me that those who have received my books kindly take even now sufficient notice of the affiliation. Honesty drives me to emphasize it." So wrote Lewis about the 19th century Scottish novelist, teacher, and poet George MacDonald. Lewis truly did seem a little frustrated that his readership continued to be so unfamiliar with this author, and throughout his adult life he never stopped recommending MacDonald's books to readers and friends alike. Months before he died, he placed MacDonald's Phantastes at the very top of the list of books which had most shaped his vocational attitude and his philosophy of life. Join us for an introduction to the man Lewis was keen for his readers to know, with MacDonald scholar Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson.
About Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson is a George MacDonald Scholar based in the Ottawa Valley, Canada. She lectures internationally and publishes widely in books, journals, and online, on topics related to MacDonald; 19th century literature and faith; the Inklings; Faith, Arts, & Imagination; Ecology and Community; etc. She features in the documentary "Fantasy Makers: Tolkien, Lewis, and MacDonald," and is guest on numerous podcasts and UA-cam videos. An alum of Regent College and St Andrew’s 'Institute of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts,' Kirstin directs Windstone Farm Linlathen, a non-profit that seeks to facilitate and cultivate community, through ‘Theology, Ecology, & the Arts.’ Links to her academic work can be found at kirstinjeffreyjohnson.com..
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"Temptation and Grace: With Jesus in the Wilderness": A Webinar with Malcolm Guite"Temptation and Grace: With Jesus in the Wilderness": A Webinar with Malcolm Guite
"Temptation and Grace: With Jesus in the Wilderness": A Webinar with Malcolm Guite
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"Temptation and Grace: With Jesus in the Wilderness": A Webinar with Malcolm Guite We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring poet, priest, and academic Malcolm Guite. The topic will focus on Lent and Guite's three sonnets about the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. The recorded webinar features a presentation and an interview with Guite,...
"C.S. Lewis in America": A Webinar with Mark Noll"C.S. Lewis in America": A Webinar with Mark Noll
"C.S. Lewis in America": A Webinar with Mark Noll
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"C.S. Lewis in America": A Webinar with Mark Noll We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring historian Mark Noll. He will be talking about his recent book, C.S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935-1947, based on his lectures over the last few years at the Wade Center at Wheaton College. The recorded webinar features a presentation an...
"Emerging from the Underground: Chinese Christians & the Search for a Mature Faith" - Yucheng Bai"Emerging from the Underground: Chinese Christians & the Search for a Mature Faith" - Yucheng Bai
"Emerging from the Underground: Chinese Christians & the Search for a Mature Faith" - Yucheng Bai
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"Emerging from the Underground: Chinese Christians and the Search for a Mature Faith" - A Webinar with Yucheng Bai We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring historian Yucheng Bai. The webinar will feature a presentation and an interview with Bai, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. For more information on the C.S. Lewis ...
"The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art" - A Webinar with Christian Wiman"The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art" - A Webinar with Christian Wiman
"The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art" - A Webinar with Christian Wiman
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"The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art" - A Webinar with Christian Wiman We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring author, editor, and poet Christian Wiman. About Christian Wiman (from his faculty page at Yale University) Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems, My Bright A...
Celebrating Stan Mattson, the intrepid Founder of the C.S. Lewis FoundationCelebrating Stan Mattson, the intrepid Founder of the C.S. Lewis Foundation
Celebrating Stan Mattson, the intrepid Founder of the C.S. Lewis Foundation
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This memorial video celebrates J. Stanley Mattson, the Founder and first President of the C.S. Lewis Foundation from 1986-2020. It was created for and shown at his retirement celebration in June 2023. We are reposting it in memory of him upon his death in January 2024. Bless you, Stan, for helping to change so many people's lives for the better in Christ.
"The Major & the Missionary" - A Webinar with Diana Pavlac Glyer"The Major & the Missionary" - A Webinar with Diana Pavlac Glyer
"The Major & the Missionary" - A Webinar with Diana Pavlac Glyer
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We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring author, speaker, and teacher Diana Pavlac Glyer. The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Glyer, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. About Diana Pavlac Glyer Dr. Glyer is a professor in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California where s...
"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart
"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart
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"Baseball, Enchantment, and Children’s Literature" - A Conversation with David Bentley Hart We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring author and scholar David Bentley Hart. The webinar features an interview with Hart, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. About David Bentley Hart David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, religi...
"Serious, Constant Desire: Joy in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce" - A Webinar with Joy Marie Clarkson"Serious, Constant Desire: Joy in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce" - A Webinar with Joy Marie Clarkson
"Serious, Constant Desire: Joy in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce" - A Webinar with Joy Marie Clarkson
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"Serious, Constant Desire: Joy in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce" - A Webinar with Joy Marie Clarkson We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring author, scholar, and editor Joy Marie Clarkson. About Joy Marie Clarkson Joy Marie Clarkson is a research associate in theology and literature at King’s College London. She is the Books and Culture Edit...
"Substituting the Sign for the Symbol" - A Webinar with Sørina Higgins"Substituting the Sign for the Symbol" - A Webinar with Sørina Higgins
"Substituting the Sign for the Symbol" - A Webinar with Sørina Higgins
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"Substituting the Sign for the Symbol" - A Webinar with C.S. Lewis Scholar Sørina Higgins We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams scholar Sørina Higgins. The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Higgins, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. Description For a brief time in...
C.S. Lewis & Objectivity: A Webinar with Dr. Jerry RootC.S. Lewis & Objectivity: A Webinar with Dr. Jerry Root
C.S. Lewis & Objectivity: A Webinar with Dr. Jerry Root
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We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring Dr. Jerry Root. The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Root, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. For more information on our programs, including in-person events, online webinars, and tours of C.S. Lewis's home, visit www.cslewis.org. About Dr. Jerry Root: Jerr...
"Faith-Keeping in Story and Song" - A Webinar with Matthew Clark"Faith-Keeping in Story and Song" - A Webinar with Matthew Clark
"Faith-Keeping in Story and Song" - A Webinar with Matthew Clark
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We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring singer-songwriter-musician Matthew Clark. The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Clark. For more information on our programs, including in-person events, online webinars, and tours of C.S. Lewis's home, visit www.cslewis.org. About Matthew Clark Matthew Clark is a singer/songwriter a...
"The Kind of People We Are": Michael Wear"The Kind of People We Are": Michael Wear
"The Kind of People We Are": Michael Wear
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Michael Wear presents "The Kind of People We Are" at the 2022 C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. The conference took place from July 28 - August 5, 2022, in Oxford, England. For more information on our programs, including in-person events, online webinars, and tours of C.S. Lewis's home, visit www.cslewis.org.
"Provocative Grace: Intellectual Hospitality and the Common Good": Cherie Harder"Provocative Grace: Intellectual Hospitality and the Common Good": Cherie Harder
"Provocative Grace: Intellectual Hospitality and the Common Good": Cherie Harder
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Cherie Harder presents "Provocative Grace: Intellectual Hospitality and the Common Good" at the 2022 C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. The conference took place from July 28 - August 5, 2022, in Oxford, England. For more information on our programs, including in-person events, online webinars, and tours of C.S. Lewis's home, visit www.cslewis.org.
The Power of Friendship: A Webinar with Sheridan VoyseyThe Power of Friendship: A Webinar with Sheridan Voysey
The Power of Friendship: A Webinar with Sheridan Voysey
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We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring Sheridan Voysey. The webinar features a presentation and an interview with Voysey, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience. For more information on our programs, including in-person events, online webinars, and tours of C.S. Lewis's home, visit www.cslewis.org. About Sheridan Voysey S...

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  • @CantaloupeJones
    @CantaloupeJones 2 дні тому

    God bless Malcolm and CS lewis foundation

  • @SiD-KiD
    @SiD-KiD 4 дні тому

    Right after he closes you can hear someone whisper in awe, “he’s so smart.”

  • @matthewbecker2830
    @matthewbecker2830 14 днів тому

    The virtue turns vice misaplied. The virtues have gone mad they have been isolated from each other @5:25, I wonder in what way?

  • @aerialaustin_
    @aerialaustin_ Місяць тому

    All us lovers of Jack owe a big debt to Walter Hooper, I think his love for Jack was felt in every new book he put out.

  • @thedreadtyger
    @thedreadtyger Місяць тому

    amin w'amin

  • @donblosser8720
    @donblosser8720 Місяць тому

    I understand how Beauty, Imagination, and Glory can open a door to faith but how can they lead to repentance, the necessary prerequisite to faith? Acts 20:21 "I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus."

  • @donblosser8720
    @donblosser8720 Місяць тому

    "God's fingerprints are all over creation." This reminded me of Ben Stein's interview of Richard Dawkins in the documentary "Expelled". Dawkins alluded to, as he often has, the appearance of the signature of a designer at the microbiological level but before Dawkins could pontificate and blather about how there actually is no Designer, Stein innocently asked him how he would explain how it all looks so designed at a staggering level of complexity. Amazingly Dawkins cited Crick's theory of Directed Panspermia, that ALIENS seeded the universe with genetic material that eventually became us. Obviously begging the question of where the aliens came from, Dawkins came off looking quite the fool (in the Biblical sense).

  • @SnuffalupagusRising
    @SnuffalupagusRising Місяць тому

    Okay, okay, you've convinced me to give that Calvinist goof another try, geez. 😂 I've been a lifelong Lewis fan and felt especially called out by this. I was aware of how much Lewis loved abd and took inspo fron MacDonald, but I could never get into him and found his Great Divorce cameo jarring. I recently reread GD and wondered why I was so put off by the cameo originally. Made me think I need to reread his writings as a now older human with less prejudice towards different schools of theology. I think when i was first getting into Lewis, I felt very defensive towards certain theologians. Now I'm embracing the beauty of appreciating people we may not always agree with. ❤ Thanks for a lovely lecture!

  • @timcharles5677
    @timcharles5677 Місяць тому

    I met Walter in our Anglican days at ST MAry Mags in Oxford in the early 80's where he was on the clergy team and I was unemployed. I served him at "mass" and he was a great support during that sad period for me

  • @bevfitzsimmonds3382
    @bevfitzsimmonds3382 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant. So encouraging. This will change my life. Thankyou. ❤🥲

  • @sarajanewright8065
    @sarajanewright8065 2 місяці тому

    4/27/2024.....i just heard the Sower's song for the first time today! it touched me, the researcher in me had to google and find more about the singer,That's what led me here....what a divine setup from God....i needed to here this message because at 45 i am one of those who still is asking GOD what is my calling.....

    • @jbohnert
      @jbohnert Місяць тому

      @sarajanewright8065 He's written books as well.

  • @Armygirl4Christ
    @Armygirl4Christ 2 місяці тому

    Read the book, “Psycho Heresy,” by Martin Bobgan.

  • @jeph33
    @jeph33 2 місяці тому

    Watching in '24, covid in the rear mirror. Found Mr. Bunn with The Sign Painter..as a homeless, it was like fantasy, thar any group of people would care like that. But that's just my experience. After that, Dreams, and on to (California-based) Miramar Bay. He has a diversity of stories, with, like, the greatest characters! Love the theme of second ( and more) chances. I'm praying for a second chance..

  • @pepehaydn7039
    @pepehaydn7039 2 місяці тому

    Catholic here. This Text is prayed in Vespers. It is wonderful. This is the Anglican Church I love.

  • @benh4984
    @benh4984 3 місяці тому

    Idk what he’s talking about but I think he’s full of it. I like listening tho

  • @sandyswoodshop2783
    @sandyswoodshop2783 3 місяці тому

    I too have just discovered Malcolm through his pipe smoking and story telling. To find out he's also saying this great stuff too is awesome!

  • @felipetorres-lynch7161
    @felipetorres-lynch7161 3 місяці тому

    The poem by Roberto Juarroz, as translated by WS Merwin, is breathtaking -- 'the intertwining' ... 'let's us be a sign in the void' -- of course, it must be relational

  • @user-ic2jh5oo1s
    @user-ic2jh5oo1s 3 місяці тому

    Great unpacking of Luke’s Temptation - thank you!

  • @josiahcarroll8576
    @josiahcarroll8576 3 місяці тому

    I love DBH and respect his opinions but I was very disapointed to hear his stance on comics. So many masterpieces and great literature in that genre: Vinland Saga, Berserk, Watchmen, Sandman, V for Vendetta.

  • @emmaemma6641
    @emmaemma6641 3 місяці тому

    This is absolutely compelling and ignites my spark for God. Malcom makes me believe ❤

  • @derekpoole7922
    @derekpoole7922 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this wonderful conversation. Blessings from Belfast Northern Ireland.

  • @Sir-Cyr_Rill-Nil-Mill
    @Sir-Cyr_Rill-Nil-Mill 3 місяці тому

    this is now on the *_Minds_*_ platform_

  • @nativeroots9185
    @nativeroots9185 3 місяці тому

    How do you define and understand the term “soul”?

  • @annnyambura6554
    @annnyambura6554 4 місяці тому

    Exactly, Lewis gave me vocabulary for my soul! Having read many of his books, for a beginner I would definitely recommend starting with Pilgrim regress...

  • @isaacjames7410
    @isaacjames7410 4 місяці тому

    Beautiful. Thank you for reading. Thank you for posting. I’m inspired to be intentional and to think, to plant seeds and to walk creeks. A beautiful world the creator has made for us. Much love.

  • @mattrich680
    @mattrich680 4 місяці тому

    This was an extraordinarily refreshing homily. I have been an Episcopalian my whole life and haven't heard such wisdom and clarity in a decade or more. Thank you so much for penetrating to the heart and reminding me how powerful our faith is. The Lord be with you.

  • @billmcclean6986
    @billmcclean6986 4 місяці тому

    Brilliant Malcolm God bless you

  • @PP-hv8xz
    @PP-hv8xz 4 місяці тому

    I now know that by the measure I love God is equal to how much I love others.

  • @johnburgess6572
    @johnburgess6572 4 місяці тому

    Amen

  • @bobp7964
    @bobp7964 4 місяці тому

    Thank you brother for such an insightful and diligent exposition of this passage celebrating the exclusivity of Christ!

  • @jbohnert
    @jbohnert 5 місяців тому

    Such a joy to join the C.S. Lewis Foundation as Steve and Stan’s assistant all those years ago. To journey to multiple conferences in the States and England. For such a time as this.❤️

  • @user-ye1kc2ff2b
    @user-ye1kc2ff2b 5 місяців тому

    God gives us gifts all over the place we need open our eyes to see them

  • @microgiants7592
    @microgiants7592 5 місяців тому

    Stan was one of the best, Godly people I have ever met. It was always a pleasure to sit with him and listen to his wisdom, his passion for the Kingdom and his life's work with the C.S. Lewis Foundation. He was one of a kind.

  • @SnuffalupagusRising
    @SnuffalupagusRising 6 місяців тому

    I completely forgot that there was a boy mom in Great Divorce. 🤣 I absolutely loved this discussion. It hit all my favs from Miyazaki to Augustine and was just what I needed going into 2024. Brilliantly and beautifully articulated! Thinking about the concept of nature as both a state of peace for ourselves and it's dark twin as a state of complacency, it makes me think of Princess Mononoke and Ashitaka's decision to leave the forest. He had everything he personally wanted at the end of the movie; peace, beauty, love, etc. He'd seen the worst of humanity, but unlike San he didn't reject his humanness and chose to continue to have a role in the world, advocating for goodness. It's a bit like the idea of becoming a solitary monk on a hilltop vs the conviction to be an active participant in the world around us. A few of the folks in Great Divorce are so afterlife focused that they become similarly complacent. I think the concept of every beautiful thing having a dark side when it removes us from our connection with the rest of creation and becomes self serving is a really interesting concept to consider. "We long not for what we remember, but what we've never experienced at all, only sensed beneath reality's surface." - Miyazaki on rejecting the concept of nostalgia. It's so interesting how this quote is near identical to Lewis' ideas about the island and prim rose field in Pilgrim's Regress.

  • @shellyshelly9218
    @shellyshelly9218 6 місяців тому

    I'm sorry, but if you think Marx's vision posited man as homo economicus, you've completely misread him. He argued the opposite - and pointed out that it is capitalism that so conceives of human beings. Nor can Marx be blamed in the slightest for Leninism or Stalinism.

  • @artworkjeremystudio521
    @artworkjeremystudio521 7 місяців тому

    Hi. I enjoy every second of this movie. Walter hooper was a real blessing to this world. I loved him

  • @emilypearson5484
    @emilypearson5484 7 місяців тому

    Fantastic discussion! I would suggest some additional nuances regarding Williams and occultism in /That Hideous Strength/. The interview question seemed focused on the depiction in that book of an unholy alliance between materialist science and ritualistic occultism. I agree with Dr. Higgins that the scene between Jane and Ransom is creepy, but I would also note this is intentional. There’s a suggestion in that scene that Jane’s feelings are the result of a demonic influence that Ransom banishes by yelling “Stop it!” (To Jane? The demon? Or--most likely, in my mind-to both.) I think the scene suggests that Lewis was picking up on the darker possibilities behind Williams’s charisma, though I would agree it also bolsters the idea that Lewis was unaware, or repressed his awareness, of that charisma actually breaking forth in a destructive way. Ransom rejects the psychosexual obedience that’s offered to him, which is what Lewis seems to think Williams was doing. Lewis also depicts Merlin in this book as a neutral figure who has to be exhumed, not only to destroy evil, but to redeem his own soul from the effects of the ritual magic he performed in his lifetime. (This, as many here would know, evokes one traditional or folk view of the fae-that they were angels who refused to take sides in the war on Heaven and are now cursed to wander the earth.) Thus, Merlin is not an unalloyed good figure, even though he’s fighting for “the good guys.” The book is hardly great literature, but it’s such a fun read, not only because of its madcap plot, but because you can feel Lewis wrestling with his attractions to, and concerns about occultism and mysticism.

  • @greenwardon
    @greenwardon 7 місяців тому

    Jump to 28:35 to skip the baseball talk...

    • @stefansketracy
      @stefansketracy 6 місяців тому

      Why would anyone ever skip baseball talk?

  • @maxstrange7606
    @maxstrange7606 7 місяців тому

    Thanks Andrew. I long for home Everytime you speak

  • @michaelkelleypoetry
    @michaelkelleypoetry 7 місяців тому

    Lewis's description of The Abolition of Man always reminds me of The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg have no culture, no humanity, just the collective.

  • @flashlitestriker4028
    @flashlitestriker4028 7 місяців тому

    This was lovely! I got so much out of this !

  • @sam.kendrick
    @sam.kendrick 7 місяців тому

    This is a great! Thanks for posting this interview! I came here for the conversation around children's literature, but I really appreciated the insight regarding baseball. Thanks to all involved!

  • @jonn_esternon
    @jonn_esternon 8 місяців тому

    33:40 "...[the ideal in writing a children's book] is not to presume that children are stupid... ...the mind expands the brain, it doesn't work the other way around-neural plasticity. we are spirit before we are flesh."

  • @Selah7791
    @Selah7791 8 місяців тому

    Out of the mouth of babes comes wisdom

  • @PHlLEUS
    @PHlLEUS 8 місяців тому

    Happy to see DBL in a conversation that he seemed to enjoy. This was a wonderful interview.

  • @msrhuby
    @msrhuby 8 місяців тому

    Loved it! Shared on Facebook! Thank You! 😍

  • @michaelkelleypoetry
    @michaelkelleypoetry 8 місяців тому

    Wow, I felt a stab of pain when Mr. Hart said only the first book in the Wrinkle in Time series was any good. A Wrinkle in Time is great, but my favorite in the series was always "Many Waters", followed by "A Wind in the Door". Although, I've always been more literary-minded than mathematically, so I've always identified more with Vicky Austin from the Austin Family Chronicles than I did with Meg Murry.

  • @leascruggs-parker6341
    @leascruggs-parker6341 8 місяців тому

    Love your lecture! The book is so inspiring and well written!

  • @michaelmartinserafin2029
    @michaelmartinserafin2029 8 місяців тому

    I wish Mr.Hart would have discussed some current children's lit authors, such as Katherine Rundell. Otherwise, he and his brother, Addison Hodges Hart, are always compelling speakers and authors. Thanks for posting this interview!

  • @barbararey-constantin5679
    @barbararey-constantin5679 8 місяців тому

    There is great strength in gentlemen. I'm so glad to learn that Mr. Lewis liked chocolate and his imaginative sense of humor too.