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Dorothy L. Sayers

Undeceptions with John Dickson

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Dorothy L. Sayers: The Great Underseaver

Dorothy L. Sayers was accused of intensifying World War II with her plays. Christians protested the plays irreverence. Despite the fallout, millions of people heard the Gospels in a way that sounded much closer to their experience of everyday life than they were used to from the pulpit. It became Sayers' crusade to pierce the indifference of the British public toward Christianity. While she was alive, Carl Bart, the great German theologian, called her one of the most outstanding British theologians. When she died, C.S. Lewis apparently wept.

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