Our Guests

Each season we have on the show a variety of guests who are C.S. Lewis scholars, authors, podcasters and enthusiasts…

Guest	Description
Dale Ahlquist	President of “The Chesterton Society”
Jimmy Akin	Author of “A Daily Defense”
Fr. Mark-Mary Ames	Franciscan Friar and author of “Habits for Holiness”
Dr. Chris R. Armstrong	Author of “Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians”
Sarah Arthur	Co-founder of Michigan C.S. Lewis Festival
Mike Aquilina	Author of “Friendship and the Fathers”
Billy Baker	Author of “We Need To Hang Out”
Dr. Ray Baker	Author of “Beyond Narnia”
Thomas Banks	Poet and Podcaster
Marie Bates	Co-host of Pints With Chesterton and wife of David
Dr. Jason Baxter	Author of “The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis”
Douglas Beaumont	Author of “Evangelical Exodus”
David Beckmann	Author of “Life with the Professor”
Steven Beebe	Author of “C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication”
Rod Bennett	Author of “The Four Witnesses”
Jeremiah Braudrick	Author of “Removing the Dragon Skin”
Justin Brierley	Author and host of “Unbelievable?” podcast
Dr. Devin Brown	Author of “Inside Narnia”
​Patti Callahan	Author of “Becoming Mrs. Lewis” and “Once Upon a Wardrobe”
Brian Carnell	Co-host of the “Talking Beasts” podcast
Greta Carswell	Co-host of “The Tolkien Road” podcast
John Carswell	Co-host of “The Tolkien Road” podcast
Johnathon Case	Representative of Hillsdale College
Dr. Michael J Christensen	Author of “C.S. Lewis on Scripture”
​David Clark	Author of “C.S. Lewis Goes To Heaven”
​James Como	Author of “C.S. Lewis: A very short introduction”
​Carolyn Curtis	Co-editor of “Women and C.S. Lewis”
Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio	Author of “When The Church Was Young”
Leonard J. DeLorenzo	Editor of “The Chronicles of Transformation”
Dr. Brenton Dickieson	Blogger at “A Pilgrim In Narnia”
Alessandro DiSanto	Co-founder of “Hallow” prayer app
Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo	Author of “A Family Guide to Narnia” and Andrew’s wife
Graeme Donaldson	Co-Host of podcast “Classical Stuff You Should Know”
Dr. Crystal Downing	Co-Director of the Wade Center
Dr. David Downing	Co-Director of the Wade Center
Alan C. Duncan	Author of “Gilbert and Jack”
Jordan Duncan	Co-host of the Lesser-Known Lewis podcast
Kaitlyn Facista	Host of the “Tea With Tolkien” podcast
Dr. Leighton Flowers	Host of “Soteriology 101” podcast
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau	Dominican at the Thomistic Institute
Michael “Gomer” Gormley	Co-host of “Catching Foxes” and “Every Knee Shall Bow” podcasts
Mondo Gonzales	Author of The Screwtape Letters: Study Guide & Commentary
Dr. Gordon Greenhill	Curator of “The Disordered Image”
Dr. Diana Glyer	Author of “Bandersnatch” and “The Company They Keep”
Soren Grefenstette	“A Severe Mercy” Superfan
Douglas Gresham	Stepson of C.S. Lewis
Rev. Malcolm Guite	Poet and author
Alex Hale	Cohost of The C.S. Lewis Book Club
Christiana Hale	Author of “Deeper Heaven”
Thomas F. Hillman	Author of “Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring”
Dr. Sørina Higgins	Inklings scholar
Stuart Hunt	Host of the “Into the Wardrobe” YouTube channel
Cullen Herout	Host of “Ready to Stand” podcast
Michele Hogan	Owner of Inkling Candles
Adam Hourican	Owner of MorneStudios
Dr. Edith M Humphrey	Author of “Further up and Further In”
Dr. Crystal Hurd	Author of “The Leadership of C.S. Lewis”
Joe Heschmeyer	Apologist and author of “Who Am I, Lord?”
Sr. Miriam James	Author of “Loved as I am”
Michael Jahosky	Host of the “Mythic Mission” podcast
Dr. Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson	George MacDonald scholar
Dr. Junius Johnson	Yale-trained scholar of theology, philosophy, and literature
Rob Jones	Poet
​Trent Horn	Apologist and author of “What the Saints never said”
Dr. Christopher Kaczor	Co-author of “Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity”
Kathy Keller	Author and wife of Pastor Timothy Keller
Dr. Don W. King	Author of “Soldier, Writer, Inkling: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis”
Dr. Robert Koons	Professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin
​Fr. Vincent Lampert	Author of “Exorcism: The Battle Against Satan and His Demons”
Katherine Langrish	Author of “From Spare Oom To War Drobe”
​Emily LaPorte	Student
Andrew Lazo	Till We Have Faces zealot and eventual PWJ co-host
John Lee	Audiobook Narrator
Max Leyf	Author of “What Barfield Thought”
​Jason Lepojärvi	Lewis scholar
​Terry Lindvall	Author of “Surprised By Laughter”
​Joseph Loconte	Author of “A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War”
Landon Loftin	Author of “What Barfield Thought”
​Fr. Dwight Longenecker	Author of “The Gargoyle Code”
Richaél Lucero	Host of “Clumsy Theosis” podcast
Colin MacIver	Author of “A Catholic Guide to Narnia”
Prof. John Marr	Music Professsor John Marr and Prof. Judith Wolfe
Max McLean	Founder and artistic director of the “Fellowship for Performing Arts”
Lina Maslo	Illustrator and author of  “Through The Wardrobe”
Shawn Marchese	Co-host of “The Prancing Pony” podcast
​Paul McCusker	Author of “The Annotated Screwtape Letters”
Rev. ​Brian McGreevy	Host of “The Screwtape Letters” podcast
Dr. Louis Markos	Author of “Myth Made Fact”
DS Martin	Poet and author of “Conspiracy of Light”
Dr. David Marshall	Author of “The Case for Aslan”
Brooke Medina	C.S. Lewis Superfan
Matt Mikalatos	Writer
Bishop Fintan Monahan	Bishop of Killaloe and author of “Peace Apart”
Shane Morris	Host of the “Upstream” podcast
Philip Muñoz	“A Severe Mercy” Superfan
Mako Nagasawa	Founder of the Anastasis Center
​Matt Nelson	Author of “Just Whatever”
The Nerd of the Rings	Host of the popular Tolkien YouTube channel
​Christine Norvelle	Author of the “Till We Have Faces Reading Companion“
​William O’Flaherty	Author of “C.S. Lewis Goes To Hell” and “The Misquotable C.S. Lewis”
Chuck Konzelman	Writer and Director of Nefarious
Nate Morgan Locke	YouTuber
Fr. Michael O’Loughlin	Co-host of “What God Is Not” podcast
Dr. Matthew K. Minerd	Author of “Made By God, Made For God”
Dr. ​Holly Ordway	Author of “Tolkien’s Modern Reading”
Dr. Hal Poe	Author of “Becoming C.S. Lewis”
​Joseph Pearce	Author of “C.S. Lewis & The Catholic Church“
Dr. Matthew Petrusek	Co-author of “Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity“
Daniel Prva	Co-host of “The Lamp-Post Listener” podcast
Red Letter Philosophy	Podcast Co-hosts
TL Putnam	Podcast Host of “Outside the Walls”
Ron Ratliff	Creator of “Mere Christianity for Modern Catholics
Dr. Joe Rigney	Author of “Live like a Narnian”
Dr. Philip Ryken	President of Wheaton College
Kenneth Samples	Author of “12 Life Parallels between St. Augustine and C. S. Lewis”
Stan Shelley	Owner of Shelley and Son Books
Julianna Slager	Artistic Director of Ballet 5:8
Cary Solomon	Writer and director of Nefarious
Sean Steveson-Douglas	Co-host of the Lesser-Known Lewis podcast
Dr. Bethany Sollereder	Author of “Why is there suffering?”
Haley Stewart	Author and Fellow of the Word on Fire Institute
Fr. Billy Swan	Author of “A Chapter that changed my Life”
Karen Swallow Prior	Author
Marilyn R. Pukkila	Librarian and Inklings Scholar
Grayson Quay	Writer
David Radford	Musician in “The Gray Havens”
Dr. Victor Reppert	Author of “C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea“
Dr. Jerry Root	Author of “Splendor In The Dark“
Robert Royal	President of “The Faith and Reason Institute”
Abigail Santamaria	Author of “Joy”
Alan Sisto	Co-host of “The Prancing Pony” podcast
Dr. Charlie W. Starr	Professor and author of “The Faun’s Bookshelf” and “Light“
Norman Stone	Director of “Shadowlands” and “Most Reluctant Convert“
Rachel Sherlock	Host of the “Risking Enchantment” podcast
Dr. Alan Snyder	Author of “America discovers C.S. Lewis”
Jennifer Woodruff Tait	Managing Editor of “Christian History” magazine
Dr. Charles Taliaferro	Author of “A Narnian Vision of the Atonement“
James Tauber	Developer of “The Digital Tolkien Project”
Murphy Thelen	Director of “Out of the Silent Planet”
Justin Thomas	Pastor
Dr. Stephen Thorson	Pediatrician, missionary and Barfield Scholar
Dan Thuet	Cohost of The C.S. Lewis Book Club
Dr. Mark Vernon	Psychotherapist and author of “The Secret History of Christianity”
Dr. Michael Ward	Author of “Planet Narnia“
Andrew Wall	Director of “The Fantasy Makers” and “The Science-Fiction Makers”
Metropolitan Kallistos Ware	Author of essay in “C.S. Lewis and the Church“
Dr. Sarah Waters	Shakespeare scholar
Dr. Carolyn Weber	Author of “Surprised By Oxford”
Dr. Kathryn Wehr	Author of the annotated version of The Man Born to be King
Steve Weidenkopf	Historian
Dr. Yaakov Weinstein	Blogger at “Torah in Narnia”
Dr. John G West	Editor of “The Magician’s Twin”
Philip Whisenhunt	Co-host of The Lamp-Post Listener podcast
Justin Wiggins	Author of “Surprised By Agape” and “Surprised by Myth”
Donald Williams	Author of “The Magic of C.S. Lewis”
Dr. Brian Williams	Author of “Pre-Evangelism for a Post-Christian World”
Prof. Judith Wolfe	Professor at St. Andrews, Scotland
Peter S. Williams	Author of “C.S. Lewis vs The New Atheists”
Most Rev. Rowan Williams	Former archbishop of Canterbury
Pastor Douglas Wilson	Pastor and author of “The Light from Behind the Sun”
Prof. Bruce Wilson Young	Professor at BYU
Dr. Joseph Zepeda	Author of “St. Augustine and human loves in The Four Loves and Till We Have Faces”

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