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Crystal |
May 3, 2024 "The Power of Theater" with Crystal Downing Crystal Downing, Co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center demonstrates the importance of theater to the Christian faith, giving a history from the ancient Greeks through the lively Wade Authors. |
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Richard |
2024 Hansen Lectureship Series by Richard Hughes Gibson "The Way of Dante" Dr. Richard Hughes Gibson, Professor of English, reveals the profound influence of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri on Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Williams, and C.S. Lewis in the 2024 Hansen Lectureship series, “The Way of Dante.” |
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Kathryn |
February 2, 2023 THE MAN BORN TO BE KING Lecture & Book Signing with Kathryn Wehr Book launch for the Wade Annotated Edition of The Man Born to be King by Dorothy L. Sayers (IVP Academic), with editor, Dr. Kathryn Wehr. |
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Amy |
January 23, 2024 "Truth, Story, and Pattern: Keys to Appreciating the Apologetic Contribution of Dorothy L. Sayers" This lecture examines a framework for understanding the fundamental coherence of Dorothy L. Sayers's work across the various genres that she deployed and considers her impact and contribution as a public Christian. |
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"An Evening with G.K. Chesterton: Apostle of Joy" with John Walker
June 26, 2024
John Walker portrays G.K. Chesterton on a journey through the afterlife where he recounts his life with wonder and gratitude while unpacking the golden key to his love of Christ.
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"When A Heart Is Really Alive: George MacDonald and the Prophetic Imagination" with Malcolm Guite
May 30, 2024
Malcolm Guite explores how George MacDonald's Fantasy writing not only created an entire new literary genre and inspired writers like Lewis and Tolkien, but also how the stories he created continue to speak powerfully and prophetically into our own cultural crisis two hundred years after he was born.
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"THE EVERLASTING MAN: A Guide to G.K. Chesterton’s Masterpiece" Book Talk with Dale Ahlquist
May 8, 2024
Celebrate the release of this beautiful new edition of The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton from Word on Fire Publishing that includes an introduction, notes, and commentary from Dale Ahlquist.
Other Past Events
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Crystal Downing |
December 2, 2020 Book Launch for Subversive with Crystal Downing Watch the virtual book launch and discussion of Wade Center co-director Crystal Downing's book, Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers. |
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David & Crystal Downing and Jerry Root | October 15, 2020 "Tackling Tough Topics with Lewis and Sayers" Three specialists on the Wade authors discuss how C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers tackle topics that may create resistance to faith in Christ. |
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Gina Dalfonzo | September 10, 2020 "Dorothy and Jack Virtual Book Launch" Watch the virtual launch of Gina Dalfonzo's book, Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis. |
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Matthew Milliner |
2019-2020 Hansen Lectures by Matthew Milliner on G.K. Chesterton Matt Milliner, Associate Professor of Art History, presents three lectures using insights from G.K. Chesterton as a guide to understanding the broad sweep of Native American art, especially in the Midwest as the 2019-2020 Hansen Lectureship series titled: "Turtle Island Renaissance." |
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Jim Beitler | September 10, 2019 "Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church" Dr. Jim Beitler, associate professor of English at Wheaton College, seeks to renew interest in and hunger for an effective Christian rhetoric by closely considering the work of five beloved Christian communicators. |
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Olga Lukmanova | August 13, 2019 "Masters and Friends: How the Wade Authors Changed My Life" Dr. Olga Lukmanova, author, translator, Fulbright Scholar, and professor in Russia, shares how the seven Wade authors influenced her life. |
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Crystal & David Downing | May 10, 2019 "C.S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers: A Feisty Friendship" Drs. David and Crystal Downing, Wade Co-Directors, share excerpts from personal letters between Lewis and Sayers, and discuss the themes of giving and receiving Christian critique, and creativity. |
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Brian Daigle | April 9, 2019 "A Chestertonian Education: Reason, Wonder, Joy, and Paradox" Brian Daigle asks in this lecture "what are we missing in our own philosophy of education if we do not read Chesterton and hear what he had to say about ideas at the core of what it means to be educated?" |
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Crystal Downing | March 4, 2019 "The Wages of Cinema: Dorothy L. Sayers's Spiritual Montage" This inaugural lecture by Crystal Downing demonstrates that the art of film moved Sayers, transforming her from a best-selling detective fiction novelist to an influential lay theologian. |
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Rolland Hein | February 20, 2019 "Doors In: The Fairy Tale World of George MacDonald" Dr. Rolland Hein shares from his latest book on the fairy tales of George MacDonald, which demonstrate the essential role of the imagination in discerning spiritual truths. |
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Jonathan R. Eller | April 9, 2018 "That High Truth": Lewis, Williams, Chesterton, and Ray Bradbury Bradbury's mythopoeic tendencies and resistance to corrupting materialism are, perhaps, best studied by exploring his interest in the works of Lewis, Williams, and Chesterton. |
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Christine Colón | 2017-2018 Hansen Lectures on Dorothy L. Sayers by Christine Colón Lecture series titled: "Community or Chaos?: Searching for Clues in the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers" |
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Timothy Larsen | 2016-2017 Hansen Lectures on George MacDonald by Timothy Larsen Lecture series titled: "The Rose Fire: George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles" |
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Paul Fiddes (Audio Only) |
January 20, 2015 "Ways of Exchange: ‘Co-inherence’ in Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis" Dr. Fiddes explores Williams’s idea of ‘co-inherence': The mutual indwelling of human persons in each other, in Christ, in the Church, and the triune God. |
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Olga Lukmanova (Audio Only) |
October 28, 2014 "George MacDonald and the Art of Mythmaking" Lukmanova examines MacDonald's fairy tales and how he connected Christian content and Biblical themes to the basic pattern of myth. |
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Christine Fletcher (Audio Only) |
November 7, 2013 "Theology in Wartime: Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis" Fletcher examines Lewis and Sayers's writing during the WWII Era as a model for Christian Engagement. |
Film footage of Canterbury Festival Plays and Dorothy L. Sayers
Enjoy viewing rare 1930s footage from three Canterbury Festival play productions by Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers, and footage of Sayers herself, in these silent film excerpts by amateur British filmmaker Sydney Bligh, discovered in 2011.
Film footage by Sydney Bligh, shared by kind permission of Helen Jarrett and The Canterbury Amateur Film Archive at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Footage in this clip is from the productions of Cranmer of Canterbury by Charles Williams (1936), The Zeal of Thy House (1937), and The Devil to Pay (1939) by Dorothy L. Sayers. These were performed during the Canterbury Festival, and the film footage is on the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral. Sayers herself appears briefly as well. More information on the plays and these films may be found in the short film Seeking Sydney about the life and work of Sydney Bligh.
This clip shows Dorothy L. Sayers in attendance at the "Dedication of Benefactors' Windows" event at King's School in Canterbury on June 17, 1939.