“The Lost Tools of Learning” and Dorothy L. Sayers as a Moral Apologist
I find myself in a complicated relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers.
Truth and Fair Play in Detective Fiction & A Review of Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
I am not sure exactly why I, and apparently the rest of the world, love mysteries as much as I do. I think Anthony Horowitz’s book-editor-turned-detective Susan Ryeland touches close to the reason.
The Kingdom of God in Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King
We will consider how Sayers’s plot structure shows both what the Kingdom of God is not and what it is. Next, we will consider her characterization of Jesus under various titles used for him: King, Messiah, Christ, Son of Man, and Son of God.
The Unofficial Inkling: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Influence on C.S. Lewis’s Imaginative Apologetics
To what degree should a work of imagination be credited to the mind of its creator, and to what degree, to the minds that influenced its creator?
How Goes a Soul
I do not have a soul…
Detective Fiction Is the Purest Literature We Have
The author plants a garden, with people in it…
A Gaudy Device
Victorians, irate…
Dorothy L. Sayers Messed Me Up: A Newbie’s Response to The Whimsical Christian
Dorothy L. Sayers messed me up. Whimsy, indeed. Hmph. One cannot help, when one begins to think in Dorothy’s whimsical terms, but see whimsy in the minutest details and the most complex matrices of life. Whimsy has invaded, and I like it.
“The Dogma Is the Drama”: The Lasting Consequence of Sayer’s Radio Play Cycle – “The Man Born to be King”
During the Second World War, Dorothy L. Sayers’s radio play cycle, The Man Born to be King, gave hope and truth to a country during a time when they needed it most.
The Oak on the Town Green
Yet they’d let the venerable oak in the center square, past which half the townsfolk walked any given day of the week, get so wracked and choked with saplings and briar that a Woodshirk had appeared in it.
This was a disaster.
Finding Unity and Community
How do we find unity and community amid chaotic diversity? How do we make disciples of all the nations when living in the “Negative World”?
Desperately Seeking Global Community through Film: Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem
We can forge global community amidst the chaos of human evil by finding the similarity in the dilemmas addressed by both the Chinese sci-fi and the British fantasy authors, and applying to Liu’s proposals Tolkien’s timeless insights regarding humanity’s Great Escape from evil.
Unexpected Poetry
To Give You Mere Hope
C.S. Lewis called us “Mere Christians,” and we are experiencing yet another time in...
Unexpected Fiction
To Live Dangerously or Die Trying
An unwanted party guest attempts to defile an imaginative dinner party of classical thinkers who are presumably friends as they discover the happiness within.
Crystal Downing’s Subversive Sayers and 21st Century Society
Crystal Downing shows how the Oxford-educated novelist, playwright, and essayist was radical and subversive for not just her generation (1893-1957) but ours.
Creativity, the Trinity, Supply Chain, and Dragons
I write picture books about supply chain management.
Sayers in Paradise: From Dante to Dorothy
We can appreciate how, like Dante, Sayers pointed towards the journey to not just redemption but its source, the ineffable love and light of God.
“The Lost Tools of Learning” and Dorothy L. Sayers as a Moral Apologist
I find myself in a complicated relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers.
Truth and Fair Play in Detective Fiction & A Review of Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
I am not sure exactly why I, and apparently the rest of the world, love mysteries as much as I do. I think Anthony Horowitz’s book-editor-turned-detective Susan Ryeland touches close to the reason.
The Kingdom of God in Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King
We will consider how Sayers’s plot structure shows both what the Kingdom of God is not and what it is. Next, we will consider her characterization of Jesus under various titles used for him: King, Messiah, Christ, Son of Man, and Son of God.
The Unofficial Inkling: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Influence on C.S. Lewis’s Imaginative Apologetics
To what degree should a work of imagination be credited to the mind of its creator, and to what degree, to the minds that influenced its creator?
How Goes a Soul
I do not have a soul…
Detective Fiction Is the Purest Literature We Have
The author plants a garden, with people in it…
A Gaudy Device
Victorians, irate…
Dorothy L. Sayers Messed Me Up: A Newbie’s Response to The Whimsical Christian
Dorothy L. Sayers messed me up. Whimsy, indeed. Hmph. One cannot help, when one begins to think in Dorothy’s whimsical terms, but see whimsy in the minutest details and the most complex matrices of life. Whimsy has invaded, and I like it.
“The Dogma Is the Drama”: The Lasting Consequence of Sayer’s Radio Play Cycle – “The Man Born to be King”
During the Second World War, Dorothy L. Sayers’s radio play cycle, The Man Born to be King, gave hope and truth to a country during a time when they needed it most.
The Oak on the Town Green
Yet they’d let the venerable oak in the center square, past which half the townsfolk walked any given day of the week, get so wracked and choked with saplings and briar that a Woodshirk had appeared in it.
This was a disaster.
Poetry & Fiction
Another Magi’s Journey
Magi-like, we had come all this way for a birth, not a death.
Necropolis and the Soul’s Well
My mind is a necropolis.
A Midterm in Russian Literature
You told me tales back then.
2057 Carnot Street
My grandparents’ house: a gift from above.
Dear, Kind God: A Divine Dilemma
‘Twas a triviality that drove her mother, /
A woman of superb breeding and culture, /
To grasp feces and anoint her little face, /
Consecrating her own child in a foul place.