Dr. Bailey is associate professor and chair of the theology department at Dordt University in Iowa. He is the author of Reimagining Apologetics and Interpreting Your World; he is also the host of the In All Things podcast.

Appearances: 716, 907

David Bates is the co-host of Pints With Jack: The CS Lewis Podcast. He has also written extensively at RestlessPilgrim.net. In 2023, David helped launch the first annual CS Lewis Reading Day.

Appearances: 116, 319

Dr. Baxter teachers Great Books at the University of Notre Dame. He writes on the relevance of medieval thought and literature, and, especially, medieval theology and Dante. In his popular writing and lectures, he talks about the arts, travel and literature, technology and humanism, science and culture, and modernity in light of the ancient world. He is the author of numerous books, including An Introduction to Christian Mysticism, The Infinite Beauty of the World: Dante's Encyclopedia and the Names of God, Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology, A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy, and, most recently, The Medieval Mind of CS Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind.

Appearance: 702

Casey is a teacher, mother, athlete, and coach from Virginia.

Appearance: 210

Item descriptionDr. Devin Brown is a Lilly Scholar and Professor of English at Asbury University in Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books on Lewis, including A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis, Bringing Narnia Home: Lessons from the Other Side of the Wardrobe, and C.S. Lewis and the Moral Argument. Dr. Brown has three publications on the first three books in The Chronicles of Narnia. They are titled Inside Narnia, Inside Prince Caspian, and Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Appearance: 413

Matt Bush is co-host of Pints With Jack. Like Phil, he has been experiencing the Chronicles one book at a time at the end of each season of his own show.

Appearance: 319

Brian Carnell is a co-host of the Talking Beasts Podcast and a staff member of NarniaWeb.

Appearance: 117

Sarah Cozart is a writer and blogger from Texas with an interested in animal theology.

Appearances: 408, 611

Dr. Brenton Dickieson works in the literature department at Signum University. He is also is Lecturer in Literature at The King’s College in New York City, Lecturer in Theology and Literature at Maritime Christian College in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Sessional Instructor in the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University of Prince Edward Island, and Instructor in Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Dr. Dickieson is also the curator of the wonderful blog: APilgrimInNarnia.com.

Appearance: 413

Jordan is the co-host of the Lesser Known Lewis podcast. He spent the better part of a decade serving families in churches around southern Alberta after graduating from college. He then completed a Master of Divinity from Trinity School for Ministry in Pennsylvania, where his love for C. S. Lewis was re-ignited. Jordan’s life-long obsession has been finding ways to communicate the good news of Jesus clearly, creatively, and compellingly in everyday language.

Appearances: 709, 710

Andrew is the host of the Outer Rim Reads podcast, a show that goes chapter-by-chapter through Star Wars books.

Appearances: 310, 516

Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer is an award-winning author and professor at Azusa Pacific University. Dr. Gyler is also the author of the academic work The Company They Keep and its companion work, Bandersnatch. Both publications focus on Lewis, Tolkien, and the creative collaboration of the Inklings.

Appearance: 413

Paul is the host of the Where Did You See God Podcast.

Appearance: 204

Michael is a radio DJ, podcast host, and recording engineer. He is the former host of the Great Commission Transmission and The Secret Fire Podcast.

Appearance: 206

Jared Henderson is a writer based in Austin, TX. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut; he discusses philosophy on his popular YouTube channel and Substack. He previously hosted the Matins and Classical Mind podcasts.

Appearance: 402

Dr. Hurd is an educator, poet, and researcher from Virginia. She currently serves as Reviews Editor for Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal. She is also the author of Thirty Days with C. S. Lewis: A Women’s Devotional and The Leadership of C. S. Lewis. She was awarded the 2020 recipient of the Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant by the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. She is a Visiting Professor for Inkling Studies at Northwind Seminary.

Appearances: 312, 604, 605

Ben Lansing is an artist from Richmond, Virginia, and the creator of the online art series Our Church Speaks. He is an Anglican deacon and a lifelong student of the history of art and religion. He loves sharing the history of the global church through art and storytelling. He lives in Richmond with his wife, Bethany, in a house full of books.

Appearances: 907

Father Andrew Lazo is an internationally-known speaker and writer specializing in C.S. Lewis and the Inklings. He is a frequent speaker around the U.S. and U.K. and has written several articles on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. In 2009, Andrew published Mere Christians: Inspiring Encounters with C.S. Lewis. Five years later, he transcribed, edited, and published a previously-unknown book by C.S. Lewis, “Early Prose Joy,” which was Lewis’s very first spiritual autobiography. For nearly twenty years, Andrew has been working on a long-awaited study of Till We Have Faces, making groundbreaking discoveries all along the way. He also hosts Pints with Jack.

Appearances: 717

Dr. Terry Lindvall is the author of Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C.S. Lewis and God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. Dr. Lindvall also holds the C. S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan College.

Appearance: 413

Dr. Markos, who is an authority on C. S. Lewis and who lectures on Ancient Greece and Rome for HCU’s Honors College, is the author of twenty-one books including: C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education.

He has also produced two lecture series available from the Teaching Company, The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis; Plato to Postmodernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author, published over 120 articles and reviews in such journals as Christianity Today, Touchstone, Theology Today, Christian Research Journal, Mythlore, Christian Scholar’s Review, Saint Austin Review, American Arts Quarterly, and The City. He has also co-written a film about the life and conversion of C. S. Lewis.

Appearance: 419

Rev. Dan Marotta is the author of Liturgy in the Wilderness and a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.

Appearance: 412

Lina Maslo is a Ukrainian-American children's book author and illustrator. In 2020, she published Through the Wardrobe: How C. S. Lewis Created Narnia.

Appearance: 317

Trent is one of Daniel’s oldest friends, a talented librarian, and an avid reader.

Appearance: 118

Graham is a marketer and lover of literature from Virginia.

Appearances: 212, 711

William O’Flaherty is the author of The Misquotable CS Lewis and CS Lewis Goes to Hell. Additionally, he runs EssentialCSLewis.com and is the host of the All About Jack podcast.

Appearances: 415, 420

Anna works as a mental health professional in schools and has been happily married to Daniel since 2015.

Appearance: 115

Dr. Harry Lee Poe is the Charles Colson University Professor of Faith & Culture at Union University. In 2019, Dr. Poe released Becoming Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis. The book was eventually followed by The Making of C. S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist and The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy.

Appearance: 413

Rachel Rigdon is a classical educator, administrator, and curriculum writer. She is currently the Dean of Academics at Elijah House Academy.

Appearances: 417, 419

Andrew Smith is the Dean of Academics at Veritas School in Virginia. He has been a teacher and administrator in classical Christian schools for twenty years. Before joining Veritas, he was Director of Upper School at The Geneva School in Florida and Head of Upper School at Westminster Academy, in Memphis, Tennessee. Andrew’s academic work has focused primarily on Rhetoric in curriculum development and teacher training. From 2008-2010, he hosted the Memphis Rhetoric Symposium, and since then he has been a consultant and teacher trainer for several schools. Additionally, he is a National Alcuin Fellow and the Mid-Atlantic Director for the program.

Appearance: 704

Dr. Charlie Starr is an Associate Professor of English at Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia. He is also the author of The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters.

Appearance: 413

Sean Stevenson-Douglas is the President of Eston College and the co-host of the Lesser Known Lewis Podcast. Sean spent six years overseas as a Global Worker before returning to Canada. He is an Ordained Minister of the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada.

Appearances: 709, 710

Emily graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degrees in history and elementary education. She works as a classical educator in North Carolina.

Appearances: 113, 610

Dr. Roger White is the curator of the Inklings Special Collection for the University Libraries as well as Professor of Ministry for the Seminary at Azusa Pacific University. Dr. White was the co-editor of 2015’s C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society.

Appearance: 413

Justin Wiggins is the author of Surprised by Agape and Surprised By Myth. His other books, Marty & Irene, Tír na nÓg, Celtic Twilight, Celtic Song, Ragnarok, and most recent work, Celtic Dawn, were all published by Steve Cawte of Impspired. He has also had poems, and other short pieces published by Clarendon House Publications, the C. S. Lewis Sehnsucht Journal, An Unexpected Journal, and Sweetycat Press.

Appearance: 314

Mr. Whisenhunt is an avid reader of George MacDonald, a former member of the NRABC, and Phil’s father.

Appearances: 903

Sarah Jane Whisenhunt is married to Phil. Phil and Sarah were just friends when the show began and married during the fourth season.

Appearances: 110, 305