Joe R. Christopher is professor emeritus of English at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and the author of C.S. Lewis (Twayne Publishers, 1987) and co-author of C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him and His Works (Kent State University Press, 1974).

Marvin D. Hinten is an English professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kan., and the author of The Keys to the Chronicles: Unlocking the Symbols of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia (Broadman & Holman, October 2005).

Jerry Root, associate professor of Christian education at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., co-edited The Quotable C.S. Lewis (Tyndale House, 1990). Root’s master’s and doctoral dissertations were on Lewis, on whom he’s taught courses for 25 years.

Wayne Martindale, an English professor at Wheaton College, is author of Beyond the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell (Crossway, 2005) and co-editor of The Quotable Lewis (Tyndale House, 1990).

Lyle Dorsett is Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., and the foremost scholar on Lewis’ wife, Joy Davidman. Dorsett is author of A Love Observed: Joy Davidman’s Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1998) and And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and […]

Lois Ann Lorentzen is professor of social ethics in the theology and religious studies department at the University of San Francisco (USF) and co-director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA).

Annette Mahoney is a psychology professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is co-director of the university’s Spirituality and Psychology Research Team and conducts research on the role, both positive and negative, that religion plays in families and in the transition that couples make to becoming parents.

Freda Shamma is a writer and curriculum development director from Cincinnati, and the mother of five. An essay she wrote, “Teaching Your Child About Islam,” encourages parents to be Islamic role models for their children and was presented at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America. Shamma can also speak about the […]

Dorothy C. Bass is director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith. This project, funded by the Lilly Endowment and based at Valparaiso University in Indiana, works to develop resources to help people live out the practices of Christian faith with integrity. Bass can speak about teaching children to resist the […]