Happy Palm Sunday! This year is special for Christians because all the Christian calendars—Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant—have us celebrating Easter on April 20. Thus, all will be meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ this week—his suffering, death, and burial—in anticipation of the celebration of His rising from the dead to new life. The radio plays of Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), a great writer and friend of C.S. Lewis, are a great way to think through the Gospel accounts.
Sayers is perhaps more well known as a writer of detective fiction. She earned the title of one of the “Four Queens of Crime” during the period some call the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, when she wrote a series of stories about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane still read and loved by millions of people.
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