S4 05. The Shocking Dorothy Sayers With Crystal Downing

The Strong Women Podcast

Crystal Downing joins us this week to talk about the 20th-century Christian author, Dorothy Sayers. Crystal is Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, where scholars research, write about, and preserve the memorabilia of a handful of British writers—including a few members of the Inklings. Though Dorothy Sayers wasn’t an Inkling herself, she was friends with many of them and was a major spiritual influence on C.S. Lewis. Dorothy was not afraid to challenge people, including both Christians and the nonreligious. Crystal’s book Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers is a wonderful introduction to this interesting woman.

The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College

Crystal’s books Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers by Crystal Downing

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith by Crystal Downing

Changing Signs of Truth by Crystal Downing

Salvation from Cinema: The Medium Is the Message by Crystal Downing

Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L Sayers by Crystal Downing

The Wages of Cinema: Looking Through the Lens of Dorothy L. Sayers by Crystal Downing (coming soon)

Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey detective books by Dorothy L. Sayers

Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Zeal of Thy House play by Dorothy Sayers

The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Mill on the Floss by George Elliot

Silas Marner by George Elliot

Middlemarch by George Elliot

The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy Sayers

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