Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy, a nonprofit that looks for threats to American security and works to draw public and government attention to those threats. He is a supporter of the Stop the Madrassa Coalition and has been critical of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in New York City.

Elinor Pierce is a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Pluralism Project.

Edina Lekovic is the Director of Policy and Programming of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

M. Zuhdi Jasser is founder and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, which promotes separation of mosque and state. He has said that “unusual accommodations” for one faith is not pluralism. AIFD is based in Phoenix, Ariz.

Wesley A. Kort is a religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who wrote C.S. Lewis: Then and Now (Oxford University Press, 2001).

David C. Downing is the R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pa., and the author of four books on C.S. Lewis, including Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis & the Narnia Chronicles (Jossey Bass, 2005) and Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis (Intervarsity Press, 2005).

Peter J. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College who specializes in Lewis and has written frequently about him. Kreeft’s books include C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium (Ignatius Press, 1994).

Bruce Edwards is professor of English at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and specializes in Lewis. His books on Lewis include Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia (Tyndale, September 2005) and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Broadman and Holman, September 2005). Edwards maintains the C.S. […]

Peter J. Schakel is a professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Mich., and specializes in Lewis. Schakel’s books on Lewis include, as author, The Way Into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide (Eerdmans, July 2005) and Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds (University of Missouri Press, 2002).