There really are only two options. Serve God and live in authentic love or serve the evil one and live in selfishness.

This whole life on earth is a battle between these two choices. The question isn't what is the least amount of work I need to do.

The question is how free do I want to be? No amount of lust, greed, glamour, pleasure, or fame

will ever satisfy us because we weren't made for falsehood or passing things.

This is Pineswood Jack, season 5, episode 37. Loved as I am.

After Hours with Sister Miriam James Heidlin.

Good morning, everyone.

Pints with Jack is your favorite weekly C.S. Louis podcast where David, Andrew, and I break down and discuss the works of C.S. Louis.

This season, we've been talking about love, and we've worked our way through Lewis's book, The Four Loves. But today,

we have a very special guest. This past month has been ecumenism month, where we've been

speaking to people who love C.S. Lewis from a diverse range of religious backgrounds,

Calvinism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Mormonism, and Judaism. Today's episode could be considered a continuation of that month, since today I'm interviewing a Latin-right Catholic who has clearly

appreciated the works of C.S. Lewis. But she has also written a book about authentic love,

which also ties into our discussion this season

about the four loves. And so I couldn't be more excited to be interviewing Sister Merriam James

Hydelands. And she's a former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the

Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in 1998.

Her story has been featured on EWTN's The Journey Home, Seat Conference, Steubenville conferences, and other outlets.

She holds a master's degree in theology from Augustine Institute,

and it speaks extensively on the topics of conversion,

authentic love, forgiveness, and healing. She is also affiliated with

the John Paul II Healing Center in leading healing retreats for priests and religious sisters

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