Pints with Jack, Season 4, Episode 39.

After Hours with Father Dwight Longinacker.

Welcome, everyone.

Pints with Jack is your weekly CS Lewis podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I break down and discuss

the works of CS Lewis.

This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence

of a senior demon, Screwtape, as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned

be tempted by Screwtape's nephew, Wormwood. Each week will be considering a different letter,

untwisting Screwtape's hellish logic, and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives.

However, today is a Thursday and is therefore an after-hours episode.

And today we're joined by a man that you'll have heard on one of the Walter Hooper tribute episodes,

Father Dwight Longenacker.

Father Dwight was brought up in an evangelical home in Pennsylvania.

After graduating from the Bob Jones University with a degree in speech and English,

he went to study theology at Oxford University. He was eventually ordained as an Anglican priest

and served as a curate, a school chaplain in Cambridge and a country parson on the Isle of

White, which is an island just off the south coast of England. In 1995, he and his family were received into the Catholic

Church, and they continued to live in England for 10 years where he worked as a freelance writer

and charity worker. In 2006, the door opened to return to the USA and be ordained as a Catholic priest.

He now serves as pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina,

and he is the author of many books, including most recently the fantastically titled Immortal

Combat, Confronting the Heart of Darkness. But today we're going to be focusing on two other

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