Q. Tell me more about the interview guests.

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Canon J. John is an evangelist, minister, speaker, social activist, and writer. His much-loved art of storytelling helps people to discover spiritual meaning in a way that makes sense of everyday life, and he has spoken in 69 countries on 6 continents. J.John has written more than 50 books, including just10, a contemporary application of the Ten Commandments, and The Happiness Secret: Finding True Contentment.

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Michael Ward is a Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford, author ofPlanet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis, and presenter of the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code. Dr. Ward is also a Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Texas. According to Dr. Ward, his chief claim to fame, however, is that he handed a pair of X-ray spectacles to James Bond in the movie The World Is Not Enough.

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Walter Hooper is an author and trustee of the literary estate of C.S. Lewis. After corresponding with Lewis for several years, Hooper visited him in England, where Lewis asked him to stay on as his secretary. Following Lewis’s death a few months later, Hooper worked with Owen Barfield to organize and preserve Lewis’s works. He dedicated his life to editing and promoting Lewis’s writings, and has written several books about Lewis. Hooper was ordained as an Anglican priest, was the chaplain of two Oxford Colleges, and served as an assistant rector of the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Oxford.

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Peter Hitchens is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. He currently writes for the Daily Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo, and China. A former revolutionary, he attributes his return to faith largely to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his many years reporting in Eastern Europe and his nearly three years as a resident correspondent in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hitchens, who is the brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, lives in Oxford with his wife, Eve. They have three children.

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Ard Louis is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics, and biology, and is also director of graduate studies in theoretical physics. He is an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Prior to his post at Oxford he taught Theoretical Chemistry at Cambridge University where he was also director of studies in Natural Sciences at Hughes Hall. He was born in the Netherlands, raised in Gabon, and received his first degree from the University of Utrecht and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.

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Dr. Colin R. Nicholl, is the author of the forthcoming, The Great Christ Comet: Revealing the True Star of Bethlehem, and From Hope to Despair in Thessalonica. Previously a teacher at the University of Cambridge and professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Dr. Nicholl has devoted himself to biblical research. His articles have appeared in publications such as The Journal of Theological Studies and The Times (London).