Best of Strong Women: The Shocking Dorothy Sayers With Crystal Downing
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We are taking a small break this July to gear up for season five of the Strong Women podcast. But during this break, we decided to re-air some episodes that we thought you would enjoy.
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.
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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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. We are taking a small break this July to gear up for season five of the Strong |
| 0:05.8 | Women podcast. But during this break, we decided to re-air some episodes that we thought you |
| 0:10.8 | would enjoy. So we will be back on August 7th with the launch of season five. And our guest is |
| 0:19.1 | Auntie Ann Beiler, who is the Auntie Anne's pretzel lady, so you're going to love her. |
| 0:24.7 | In the meantime, here's a conversation I had with Crystal Downing about Dorothy Sayers. |
| 0:30.2 | I hope you enjoyed this one. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites |
| 0:40.8 | and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:44.3 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means |
| 0:49.5 | to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone |
| 0:56.3 | Street. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to the Strong Women podcast today. Our guest is Crystal |
| 1:05.2 | Downing and Crystal is an author and a speaker. She and her husband co-direct the Wade Center at Wheaton College, |
| 1:13.4 | and they also host a podcast through that Wade Center as well. And both the podcast and the |
| 1:19.7 | center deal with the inklings, everything about the inklings. So today, I'm asking Crystal on because I would like to hear more about |
| 1:30.2 | Dorothy Sayers. Now, Dorothy was friends with many of the inklings, and Crystal knows a lot about |
| 1:38.7 | Dorothy Sayers. She's written several articles and essays and things like that about Dorothy Sayers. |
| 1:45.1 | She's also written a book called Subversive, Christ, Culture, and the shocking Dorothy Sayers. So I cannot wait to talk |
| 1:52.8 | about her. Thank you for coming, Crystal. It's a delight to be with you. Okay, to start off, |
| 1:58.1 | though, I want to hear about you, Crystal. Where did you grow up? |
| 2:02.4 | I was born in San Francisco and grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula and did all my education |
| 2:08.8 | in California. So I'm a native Californian. Got it. Okay. And now did you grow up in a Christian home? |
| 2:15.3 | I did. My parents, very, very earnest Christians. I grew up in |
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