Category: Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
A Gaudy Device
Victorians, irate…
Detective Fiction Is the Purest Literature We Have
The author plants a garden, with people in it…
How Goes a Soul
I do not have a soul…
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?
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.
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 Lost Tools of Learning” and Dorothy L. Sayers as a Moral Apologist
I find myself in a complicated relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers.
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.
Creativity, the Trinity, Supply Chain, and Dragons
I write picture books about supply chain management.
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.
