Hey everyone, it's David here. I'm sorry I didn't manage to edit this week's episode.

This past weekend, Matt and I, we actually recorded two episodes and I haven't got anywhere

near them because I'm in the middle of doing my taxes. I'm giving a talk

here in San Diego. I'm about to give one in Los Angeles and I've got 1,0001 things to do. So I promise

I'll have a new one out for you next week. But rather than just leave you with nothing this week,

I thought I would just read a little extended quotation from one of Lewis's friends, Dorothy L. Sayers.

Her words really reminded me of what Lewis wrote about Aslan, and by extension, Christ. He's

not a tame lion. Now, I came across this quotation because in an attempt to get a better grip on reformed theology,

I've been listening to the White Horse Inn podcast.

And a few episodes ago, there was this extended quotation from Dorothy Sayers,

from her work, The Dogma is the Drama.

And since she was a friend of Lewis, I thought that it would be an appropriate thing to share

this week since we don't have an episode. So here we go. This is from The Drama is the Dogma.

So that is the outline of the official story. The talk of the time when God was the underdog

and got beaten, when he submitted to the conditions he had laid down and

became a man like the men he had made, and the men he had made broke him and killed him.

This is the dogma we find so dull, this terrifying drama of which God is the victim and hero.

If this is dull, then what in heaven's name is worthy to be called exciting?

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore. On the

contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left to later generations to

muffle up that shattering personality and surround him in an atmosphere of tedium.

We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him meek and mild,

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