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Kresta in the Afternoon – January 5, 2024 – Hour 2

We meet the real Magi with Fr. Dwight Longenecker.

 

 

Epiphany and the Search for the Magi

This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. It’s one of the most beloved images of the Nativity story – the three kings riding their camels, following a star to Bethlehem. But little is known about them – were they kings? Magi? “wise men?” In fact, many modern scholars have dismissed them as merely pious legend. Fr Dwight Longenecker joins us with the evidence for who they were and why we can believe they really visited the infant Christ.

Father Dwight Longenecker, raised in an Evangelical Protestant home, attended Bob Jones University, pursued further studies in theology at Oxford, and was ordained an Anglican minister. In 1995, he was received into the Catholic Church in England, and eleven years later he returned to his native United States to be ordained as a Catholic priest. He now serves as pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of several books including Beheading Hydra and Mystery of the Magi. His newest book is his autobiography – There and Back Again: A Somewhat Religious Odyssey.
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