Are women human? Or are they women? Yes and yes. But is one category treated as more significant than the other? Join us in working through Sayers' speech, entitled "Are Women Human?" and some of her controversial thoughts regarding that topic.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

This completes our three-part series on the afterlife via Sayers, via Dante. Listen to this episode to hear a positive view of Purgatory--even if you don't believe in it yourself--and how we can apply it even now, to our own lives. Also, learn something how some 13th century Florentine siblings got themselves spread throughout Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

What is Hell? It's a place, yes. But it's also an attitude. It's when we call something evil when it's actually good. Hell's not just a place where people are tortured. It's a place of hostility toward the whole world and all that is good in it. Take a few minutes and learn more about what Sayers, using Dante, believes hell to be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

Everyone knows Heaven that to describe Heaven as simply a cloud and a harp is childish. But what is it, exactly? Sayers tries to answer that question -- or at least, help us understand how Dante answered that question. In her 1948 lecture, "The Meaning of Heaven and Hell," she gives everyone (regardless of his or her affection for Dante) a different and convicting way to think about the realm of God and His angels.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

Trinities are all around us, according to Sayers's masterpiece, The Mind of the Maker. In this episode, we'll discuss how Sayers shows us that the Trinity isn't a foreign idea, and it's not abracadabra (as Thomas Jefferson says). Rather, the relationship of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is as familiar as the book on your shelf.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

In part 2 of this interview, we get Gina's thoughts on how, or if, we should separate a writer's work from his personal life, as well as her insights on how C.S. Lewis respected women and best practices for our own research. And of course, we learn more about the relationship of Sayers and Lewis themselves.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

Dorothy and Jack is a biography of friendship. Most of us have heard of C.S. Lewis' group of friends called The Inklings, but Lewis enjoyed other significant friendships, including a respectful and jovial connection with Dorothy L. Sayers. In this interview with author Gina Dalfonzo, we hear her elevator pitch for the book, why physical distance in a friendship isn't always a bad thing, and also why we should all be grateful to a man named James Welch. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

There are no bad questions, are there? Yes, there probably are. Sayers, Chesterton, and Lewis all have something to say about asking questions that shouldn't be asked. In this episode, we draw from Sayers' Mind of the Maker, Chesterton's "Why I am a Catholic," and Lewis' A Grief Observed in order to train ourselves in the detection of such conversational crimes.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

Maybe you don't care about Sayers or don't like her writing. But the truth is that she has more to offer us than her books. Her life had qualities we can admire, as well as challenges we might share: we've all had to leave early to cook dinner,  though only a few of us have ever kept a pig for slaughter. In this episode, we get more biographical with Sayers as we discuss five reasons why we can learn from her life as well as her work.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message

Once you've successfully written murder mysteries, lay theology, radio dramas, and stage dramas, what else is left? Why not try your hand at re-interpreting a treasured western classic? This is what Sayers did toward the end of her life: she fell in love with Dante's Divine Comedy, and her obsession with it led to copious research and, ultimately, a new translation. In this episode, we talk about why she was so darn enthusiastic about this old poet.  "Dorothy and Dante" concludes Season 1 of the Dorothy L. Sayers Podcast, but stay tuned for Season 2, beginning in January of 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lindsey-scholl/message