Church celebs?
During World War II, C.S. Lewis, Oxford professor and later writer of the Narnia stories, had become a forceful spokesman for Christianity. Apart from broadcasting on BBC radio, he was also invited to speak at many RAF stations.
John Benton
These talks proved very popular. Hearing of this, a US Air Force chaplain travelled to Oxford to ask Lewis to speak at his base. He knocked on the door of Lewis’s study during a tutorial. Lewis graciously got out his diary and standing at the door they negotiated a date. But then the chaplain said something like: ‘You’re becoming really famous, Mr. Lewis, and a name like yours will draw a big crowd’. Lewis winced, put a line through the date and closed the door. He cancelled.1
