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Dwight Longenecker

About Me
Brought up in an American Evangelical home, I went to Bob Jones University--the jewel on the buckle of the Bible Belt. While there I came down with a severe case of Anglophilia from reading too much C.S.Lewis and Tolkien and T.S.Eliot. I went to study theology at Oxford, was ordained as an Anglican priest and stayed in England for twenty five years. After ten years wearing a dog collar I was received into the Catholic Church. I spent ten years as a layman writing articles and books no one reads. Then the call came to return to the USA. I am now chaplain at St Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville, South Carolina, and by God's grace will be ordained as a Catholic priest in December 2006.

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Al Kimel (aka “Pontificator”) was a parish priest in the Episcopal Church for twenty-five years. He has published articles in the Anglican Theological Review, Sewanee Theological Review, Interpretation, Scottish Journal of Theology, Worship, Faith & Philosophy, Pro Ecclesia, and First Things. He has also edited two books: Speaking the Christian God and This is My Name Forever. He began Pontifications in March 2004 as a way to reflect on the meaning of the Church and to invite others to share in these reflections. In June 2005 he entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. On 3 December 2006 he was ordained a priest in the Catholic Church. He is currently serving as the lay Catholic chaplain at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. All unsigned articles on Pontifications are written by Fr Kimel.

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[Mike Fieschko]

Dwight Longenecker ... I went to Bob Jones University--the jewel on the buckle of the Bible Belt.

The Italian Gothic page at the University's Museum and Gallery site quotes Willa Cather (!), and the Museum has quite a nice selection of paintings from Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and other periods, many, of course, of the Mother of God.