Imagine being a child prodigy who enters Oxford at age twelve, only to spend your adult life navigating a violent cycle of suspension, supreme power, and eventual professional exile. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of Henry Wilkinson (known as "Long Harry"), the 17th-century clergyman whose career serves as a masterclass in political and religious resilience. We deconstruct the "inciting incident" of 1640, where a single controversial sermon attacking church ceremonies launched a decades-long battle between institutional authority and personal conviction. We unpack the chaotic whiplash of the English Civil War and the Long Parliament, analyzing how Wilkinson transitioned from a suspended preacher to a supreme rule-maker as the Lady Margaret  ...