What if Screwtape Were Female? An Interview with Tilly Dillehay [The Pugcast]
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today the Pugs are pleased to welcome to the show Tilly Dillehay, author of My Dear Hemlock. Tilly has taken Lewis's ingenious book, The Screwtape Letters as inspiration for her book in which Madame Hoaxrot (a female Screwtape) instructs a junior temptress named Hemlock (her Wormwood) in the fine art of leading a young woman astray. It's a fun episode, and one with many reflections on the spiritual hazards that women find tempting. We hope you enjoy the show--if "fun" and "enjoy" can be thought of as the right words for such a diabolical subject.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Theology Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | It's great to have you here for another episode, if you've been with us before, but if this is your first time, we're going to introduce ourselves. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor. I serve a church in the Pacific Northwest. I've written a number of books, and I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine. |
| 0:19.5 | Tom. I'm Tom Price. I teach theology, Christian ethics at Gordon |
| 0:24.2 | Conwell Theological Seminary, teach philosophy and a few other courses around the academic |
| 0:30.2 | globe. And I'm in the process of holy orders, so in the ACNA. So, uh, all right. Yeah, so I got a lot going on. Yeah, I wasn't aware of that last one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:43.7 | Good stuff. All right, Glenn. I am Glenn Sunshine. I am a retired history professor from |
| 0:51.7 | Central Connecticut State University, specializing in Renaissance and Reformation |
| 0:55.8 | Europe. I am a senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I work for Reflections |
| 1:01.7 | Ministries, and I have my own 501C3 ministry called Every Square Inch Ministries. Great. Well, we have a special |
| 1:08.9 | guest with us today. We've had a number of guests here recently, and we're glad to have Tilly with us. Tilly, go ahead and introduce yourself. |
| 1:16.9 | Okay. My name's Tilly Dilla Hay. I'm a pastor's wife in very rural Tennessee. |
| 1:24.1 | Me and my husband, Justin, have been married for 12 years, so we're still really babies in our marriage, I think. |
| 1:31.9 | And we have four lovely children. |
| 1:34.8 | They're 10 and under who I'm homeschooling. |
| 1:38.8 | And I'm also the author of three books, the third of which just came out late this past year. |
| 1:46.8 | Yes, and we're here to talk about that one, and it's entitled, My Dear Hemlock, |
| 1:51.8 | and I've got a copy of it here. This is an advanced reader's copy, and I've had a little |
| 1:56.8 | time to look at it and read a few chapters, and I'm intrigued. So I know that you drew inspiration |
| 2:04.4 | from the screw tape letters. Maybe you can just kind of us a little introduction to the book you wrote, |
| 2:10.5 | Tilly, and I think we'll have plenty to talk about. It's going to be fun. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously, |
| 2:17.0 | we all love the screw tape letters and have probably read and reread |
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