Michael Ward is a member of the faculty of theology and religion at the University of Oxford, and professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University. He is the author of After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (Word On Fire Academic, 2021), The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens (Tyndale House Publishers, 2010), Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2010), and is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press, 2010).