John Mark Reynolds — Founder and Director of the Torrey Honors Institute and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Biola University. He has been a contributing writer for such journals as the New Oxford Review and Touchstone, and is the author of several books, including Maker of Heaven and Earth: Three Views on the Creation and Evolution Debate (co-authored with J.P. Moreland) and Towards a Unified Platonic Human Psychology. Reynolds lectures frequently on ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, home-schooling and cultural trends, appears regularly on radio talk shows, and actively blogs on cultural issues.

Armand Nicholi, Jr. — Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has served on the Harvard Medical School Faculty for the past twenty-six years. He teaches popular courses at the medical school and at Harvard College which served as the basis for his recent book, The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life, as well as the PBS television series of the same name. Nicholi is editor and co-author of The Harvard Guide to Psychiatry, one of the leading textbooks on psychiatry used in universities and medical schools throughout the world.

Paul Ford — Professor of Systematic Theology and Liturgy at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, CA. He has been involved in study of the life and writings of C.S. Lewis throughout his adult life. He was the founding director of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society and past Vice President of the C. S. Lewis Foundation, CA. Ford published the award-winning Companion to Narnia and has contributed eleven entries to C.S. Lewis: A Reader’s Encyclopedia.

Diana Glyer — Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. She is intrigued by the creative process, particularly the way that creativity thrives within small groups and creative clusters. She holds degrees in art, education, literature, and composition, and has published extensively on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Joy Davidman, and the Inklings. Glyer’s latest book is The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community.

Malcolm Guite — Chaplain and Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, and teacher of Literature and Pastoral Theology for the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges. Trained for the Priesthood at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1990. His doctoral thesis focused on the links between the theology of Lancelot Andrewes and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Guite is involved with a number of projects linking theology and the arts, and has published poetry, literary criticism and theology in various journals. His book, What do Christians Believe?, was published by Granta in 2006. As founder of the rock band, Mystery Train, Guite writes lyrics and performs on guitar and vocals.

Andrew Lazo — Ph.D. candidate in Modernist British literature at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Humanities and a visiting scholar at the Marion E. Wade Center (Wheaton, IL). He has published several articles and lectures widely on the works of Lewis and Tolkien. Upon receiving his doctorate, Lazo looks forward to lecturing at seminars and retreats across the country. He teaches composition at Houston Baptist University and has taught in and out of the university for several years. Lazo has also taught a highly popular church-based adult education course, exploring the devotional aspects of The Chronicles of Narnia.

Vishal Mangalwadi — International lecturer, social reformer, political columnist, and author of thirteen books. Born and raised in India, he studied philosophy at various universities, in Hindu ashrams, and at L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. He and his wife, Ruth, co-founded a community to serve the rural poor, and he later worked at the headquarters of two national political parties, where he worked for the empowerment and liberation of peasants and the lower castes.  Mangalwadi is the author of several books on the role the Bible must play in transforming entire societies and has lectured in twenty-seven countries.  He is currently working on the production of a television documentary, The Book of the Millennium: How the Bible Changed Civilization.

Rick Hill — Professor of Writing and Literature at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He has written on C.S. Lewis for numerous publications and conferences and has taught Lewis in college courses, small group seminars, and adult Sunday school. Since 1997 Hill has been program chair and conference book editor for the international C.S. Lewis and Friends Colloquium based at Taylor University. His most recent book, written with Lyle Smith of Biola University, is Teaching C.S. Lewis: A Handbook for Professors, Group Leaders, and Lewis Enthusiasts.