Read Dorothy Sayers! with Kathryn Wehr

Kathryn Wehr is a scholar specializing in the religious drama of Dorothy L. Sayers and the editor of the just-released The Man Born to be King, Wade Annotated Edition. Kathryn's broader research interests include theology and the arts, spiritual formation, and church history. She holds a PhD in Divinity from the University of St Andrews (Scotland). I think you will really enjoy this conversation with Kathryn Wehr. 

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Transcript

Well, i'm so glad that everybody has come along today for this special podcast, and I just readily admit that there are ways that I have heard about Dorothy Sayers for many years, but I unfortunately have not been a reader of Dorothy Sayers. So I want you to avoid my mistakes, and so to do that I have brought in Catherine, where, who is a scholar of Dorothy Sayers, and she has this great new volume out. I'm going to put it up on the screen. The man born to be king, and we're going to talk more specifically about it.

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Katy Wehr: But Katherine has her Phd. From the University of Saint Andrews. She's, a creative artist and scholar. She is the publisher. She's the editor of Logos, a journal of Catholic thought and culture. And so we are so gag glad, Katherine, to have you into the podcast. Yeah, Great and really excited to be here.

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Andy Miller III: Well just tell us a little bit about yourself, and that might help us understand how you got to the place of getting so in depth in this research about Dorothy Sayers in her plays.

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Katy Wehr: Sure. Yeah. Well, i'm from Minnesota. That's where i'm broadcasting from here today. And I was raised. Baptist and I went to Bethel University here also in Saint Paul, and then and then I discovered liturgies I was in. I was an angle ken for about 20 years

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Katy Wehr: bilingual, and but particularly from my time I, as an Anglican, say, I got to know Dorothy I's who is herself and Anglican, or was an Anglican.

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Katy Wehr: so I first encountered the manborn speaking. That was my first introduction to her work when I was a student at Regent College in Vancouver.

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Katy Wehr: and because I, my first degree, was in theater. So I thought, oh, plays yeah, sure it should be right up my alley. And so. But that was kind of my my entrance into her work, because

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Katy Wehr: I love about her that she has all kinds of different genres

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so sometimes that's why sometimes people aren't as familiar with her, because.

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Katy Wehr: or they might know just part of her work. So they might just know her mystery novels, or they might just know her work on Dante, which was like the last

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Katy Wehr: 1315 years of her life.

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Katy Wehr: They might just know some of her essays which are amazing. Some of her wartime writings which were all about like, what kind of world do we want to build once this once World War Ii is over.

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Katy Wehr: It's just a treasure trove, and and as someone who loves doing creative work, it gives me hope that, like oh, there's always new time. There's there's time to develop a new idea, a new genre to learn something new like

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Katy Wehr: she I mean. Her specialty from university was in medieval French, but she taught herself medieval Italian so that she could work on Dante, and that was in her forties. So you think? Oh, well.

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Andy Miller III: I have plenty of time. There you go. It's so interesting now, I I think probably the way I knew her writing in the most was just through the letters, like various times. There'd be letters published.

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Andy Miller III: I'm kind of come to this podcast embarrassed that I haven't read her more. And then, when I got into your book, I thought, man, I've really been missing out. What was her connection then to? I mean it. It's kind of like through the famous

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Katy Wehr: Tolkien Cs. Lewis, and then probably a connection to Gk. Chesterton as well that these are kind of like the

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Andy Miller III: the heroes, and not just it it Christian evangelical intellectualism, and not just evangelical, but across traditions. If you are indicated. And so

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Andy Miller III: that's probably the way that I knew her the the most. But why is it? Is it because it did the diversity of her writings that she's not been act, or or maybe am I? Just wait. Somebody sitting in the dark too much. And what what is it that keeps her from the people attaching to her sooner.

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I think that's a that's a good question.

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Katy Wehr: It's it's funny, because during her lifetime, as you mentioned, so she she we know that she read a lot of Gk. Chesterton as a young woman, she writes in her letters back and forth with her parents like, oh, you should read this, and

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Katy Wehr: and also like 10 years before he actually became Catholic, she said to her, wrote to her parents like, I've heard he's about to, you know, cross the Tiber so.

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Katy Wehr: And then she got to know Charles Williams

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Katy Wehr: books by writing to him. I think that's how they first connected. But then he ended up recommending her to write a play for the Canterbury Festival, because he had written

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Katy Wehr: What was it.

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Katy Wehr: anyway? His Canterbury festival play in 19 Probably 35 0r 34, and then she ended up writing through his influence the 1936 Canterbury festival play at Canterbury Cathedral. So these cathedrals at the time are doing these big Arts Festival. So she wrote a play

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Katy Wehr: which was called the Zeal of thy House. So but then she did get to know him more, and they met in person more later. Then, trying to think. I think it was 1943 that she got to know Cs lewis and I think, because they had a mutual friend in Charles Williams.

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Katy Wehr: and so they they got to know each other a little bit. But then, once Charles Williams died, actually they collaborated on a book of essays in his honor

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Katy Wehr: until she died in 1957. There's lots of letters between them about the things that each of them are writing, and so, you know, because he was a medieval scholar, right? So she

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Katy Wehr: things tried to wrote for into a couple of different projects like he tried to get her to write a book on sort of against women priests that became his essay. You know

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Katy Wehr: about priestesses, I think.

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like you know, stick with the historic precedence. I think we'll probably be the strongest argument.

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Katy Wehr: And then yeah, so they had a fun relationship. And actually, there's a lot of fun. Little things like. She would write him make little drawings of her cats or her chickens, and they would go back and forth joking. She. She wrote a whole letter to him very early in their friendship, in the style of the screwtape letters

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Andy Miller III: to screw Tape. So interesting. Wow! It's a fascinating. So how did you get. So you just you did, I guess, in your doctoral research in in writing on Dorothy L. Sayer. So what was your I mean? It's this book isn't we're going to get into what makes it distinct.

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Andy Miller III: I'm looking at the plays around the life of Christ. But what was your research in? Specifically?

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Katy Wehr: Yeah. So I. When I was

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Katy Wehr: deciding on a doctoral topic. I I thought of these place because I had been using them as examples in the class I was teaching at North Central University. I was teaching a theology class, and it was kind of theology and the arts, and so I. I would always reserve a day to read one of the plays allowed, or a few scenes.

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Katy Wehr: And so, as I was trying to decide what I wanted to write on, I thought, what's something that I, you know at least know something about. So far so. And since I had written about it in my

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Katy Wehr: masters, I thought, Well, Why, Don't, I see what you know what research there is, and there really wasn't much at all

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Katy Wehr: in in and out of publication ever since 1,943, and then has been re-recorded by the BBC. A couple of times

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Katy Wehr: it was let's say there's wide open for a researcher.

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Katy Wehr: My first thought was to to answer a couple of questions that biographers were saying. Like they were, they were saying, oh, she really prefers the gospel of John.

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Katy Wehr: and I thought.

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Katy Wehr: and and I thought, well, n0 0ne really talks about how she develops that. So

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Katy Wehr: So yeah. So I ended up doing a dissertation. You know it's sort of a normal sort of book, where a different chapter one takes on her script Use of Scripture one

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Katy Wehr: and then her secondary sources, because she, in her introduction. She credits several books, and n0 0ne. There was one study that someone had done at a conference on that. So I started there, but found lots of other connections.

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Katy Wehr: I mean. There's so much information there. But how can you make it useful t0 0thers? And so that's what is so exciting about this new addition is that i'm able to bring that information and make it useful to readers.

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Katy Wehr: So yeah.

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Andy Miller III: in the idea with the W. What she was approached by the BBC. To develop these plays, and so when she did, she wanted to be very specific, and she she was wanting to use common English, and she was wanting to like really make making Christ. The character was an issue for her right like that. That. There, there' be challenges with that. And certainly this was a controversial

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Katy Wehr: set of plays like. After the first set was released there was like a committee put, so tell us about some of that like? Why, Why, this was such a a dramatic event! What are like her putting this out, and what she was trying to do? And then I want to get into the ways that you what you did in your volume to help us kind of like, enjoy it more

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Katy Wehr: sure. Yeah. So I mean it. It's a very interesting story, as you said. The BBC. Commissioned the place, and she had already written one Nativity Play for the BBC. That was a success. It's called he that should come, and just a one our Nativity play that takes place in sort of the the yard of the in in Bethlehem

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Katy Wehr: desire. So he he's saying, like, we need to help the heathen of this country. Get to that crisis. You know they're not reading their Bible, so why Don't. We put it on the radio

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and that kind of thing, you know. So and she.

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Katy Wehr: you know, I mean. she is obviously a Christian of a very active Christian, especially at this point. She's she's writing a lot of essays about spiritual themes, that kind of thing.

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Katy Wehr: So you know she she's definitely understands his point of view, but she feels very clearly that her job is to write the best plays possible

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Katy Wehr: and make it real to people that he was a real person living in a real time in real situations, real people coming to him to be healed, to push back on what he's saying to you know, eventually crucify him. Then people will.

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Katy Wehr: you know, if I present Christ? Truly

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Katy Wehr: she's famous for saying the dogma is the drama

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Katy Wehr: like if we really understood what the creed say, we would be shocked, and it would be know that it's like the most dramatic thing in existence

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Katy Wehr: that God actually became man and walked among us and then died for us. It was again so.

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Katy Wehr: anyway, so that she right. So Welch asked her to write the plays.

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Katy Wehr: and then she had some very specific things right from the beginning. She had very clear ideas, so, as she said, she wanted to use everyday English.

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Katy Wehr: but she really wanted Christ to be a character which had not been done.

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Andy Miller III: That's that's right, and that's partly because of laws that were in place from the Reformation

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Katy Wehr: Kabash on all theater

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Katy Wehr: but you. You might have a play about Christ from the point of view of other people. So you know the disciples telling the story. But Christ wouldn't appear, or there would be a voice from off stage or a light, a shaft of light that would sort of represent price, and you can see, there's there's a

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Katy Wehr: a pious intention there. People are wanting to be respectful and not.

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Katy Wehr: you know not. We make it feel blasphemous. I mean that's how it felt

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Andy Miller III: it made it.

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Katy Wehr: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, there's these wonderful letters with James Welch where they're kind of saying like, Well, we it's sort of on both sides our our silly culture. There's some people that are like. Oh, Jesus! He was just a good guy and a good teacher, you know not fully God. So that's Arianism. And then other people that

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Katy Wehr: particularly Christians who are like oh, he's! He's s0 0ther that he's not even really he right. And so she wanted to balance that, and I think she she tries very hard in a lot of her scenes to do that where she'll combine a miracle with Jesus.

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Katy Wehr: you know they think of I mean, this is even in the Scripture. But you think of the appearance in the upper room where you know Jesus comes through the locked door. But then he asks for fa, ask for food, and is given some royal fish right? So that there's this kind of balance of like, Wow, he's

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Andy Miller III: Yeah, that. And that's obviously she's wanting to. And so, by having Jesus be a real character, this is a dramatic move, and it got her

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Andy Miller III: in hot water. You want to tell us about the drama of

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Katy Wehr: there you. As I said this, the laws had to do with plays. Now, radio was kind of a new thing, but it had not been tried on the radio. The part that I didn't say is that the laws were relaxed

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Katy Wehr: just before World War one. And so people were allowed to have Jesus be a character, but they actually needed permission from the government in order to include Jesus as a character, so they would approve scripts that kind of thing. So

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radio because, of course, radio is a little more like the voice off stage.

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Katy Wehr: in a sense like Well, there's not a person here pretending to be. Jesus

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Katy Wehr: was really important, because later, you know, despite having that permission, there's so plenty of people who felt like it was.

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Katy Wehr: you know, perhaps sacrilegious to have these kinds of play. So in 1,941,

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Katy Wehr: the the first play was going to be broadcast on Christmas Day, 1,941, and so they had a a press conference, and Sayers read a little bit of the script.

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Katy Wehr: and it was a section where Matthew, the tax collector, was there, and she has unlock very much unlike chosen. She has made Matthew the you know, the all knowing kind of

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Katy Wehr: you know, urban guy. So he's the Eastern London Cockney, who, you know, knows what's what, and he, you know. So

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Katy Wehr: she read a bit at the beginning of of play, for where he's kind of chiding Philip for getting a bad deal at the market. And then this is this ends up being a set up for Jesus to tell a parable. But but

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Katy Wehr: the you know the slang. You know that that

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Katy Wehr: that Matthew uses people were shocked. And so then. But of course this is a press conference, and all these press men are there to sell papers, and so they create these headlines that are like I, for Christ plays in us slang

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Katy Wehr: There's this wonderful group called the Lord's Day Observance society

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Katy Wehr: full of i'm sure wonderful well meaning Christians.

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Katy Wehr: Now. At this point n0 0ne had heard any of them. They just heard a few lines that Sarah's ran at a press conference, but it I mean. Thousands of letters came to the BBC. And I've done some work in the BBC. Archives, and so they

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Katy Wehr: they're all there like the originals there. And then

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Katy Wehr: her saying, like 9 0ut of 10 mothers in this small village bag and plea that you would not. You'd stop this thing from going on the air like people were very, very. You're worried about it. Yeah, sure.

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Katy Wehr: And people even I think 1941 right? The United States just entered the war. But Britain had been at war since 1,939, and so you know it things

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Katy Wehr: things. We're looking very grave.

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Katy Wehr: And so people felt like, If if this is, you know, sacrilegious, God won't, be pleased, and you know he. So there are people literally that wrote to the BBC. Saying, Like the fall of Singapore, is your fault. Stop these plays

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Katy Wehr: for for for for England violating this, and I think it's hard for Americans. It's okay. It's hard for me. Let's just say that i'm an American. It's hard to realize the connection between

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Andy Miller III: the BBC. The Church of England and this national identity a Christianized culture. That's so different from what we experience that that this was like a a national issue for them. It seems like that's right. Yeah, there was even

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Katy Wehr: even a a question put in the House of Commons. So there's like a a question time, and sometimes they show it on TV sometimes where any question can be addressed to the members of the House. And so there was a question saying, what are you going to do

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Katy Wehr: about these plays like? Should we stop them as the Government? And the answer from the Prime Minister was like, we'll let the BBC. Handle this so. But of course the DC. Is funded by the Government, so you know.

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Andy Miller III: and or the the plays. But your what you've done is unique, because you like you say she takes the Gospels and she we some all the guys she did it like, I don't know which one she emphasized, based upon what I've read from from you.

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Andy Miller III: but to weave them all together, even in the very first quotation, and tell us what what makes you your work, this thing, and how this helps make Dorothy Sayers work more accessible.

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Katy Wehr: Yeah.

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Well, thanks, I think when I started my research

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Katy Wehr: I was often reading along, and I would say to myself, now, which gospel is this story in? And I thought, I wish there was a there were a footnote in this edition that I had, and so that was the first kind of layer of the idea of this is saying.

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Katy Wehr: I wish sometime, and maybe now that i'm working on this place, it could be my job to create a version where at least all the Bible references are tracked. And then, of course, as I, you know, mentioned that I was one of my goals was to analyze how she was doing Scripture. So I actually took

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Katy Wehr: Kurt Alon's Synopsis of the 4 Gospels, which is a you know it takes the 4 Gospels, and it puts it in 4 columns

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Katy Wehr: and use the same pericopes we call the bit kind of chunks of Biblical text.

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Katy Wehr: It was exciting to be able then to analyze, and even numerically, as I have an article that's published on her use of the Gospels. You know where i'm able to say, You know I don't have the numbers right at the top of my head. But you know this this many times. She references. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and this percentage of her material

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Katy Wehr: is from John

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Katy Wehr: and or the or the Synaptic Gospels that kind of thing. And so I, just to just to say, I think she loves being very even. That's one of the things I I was able to say that her favorite stories to cover, because I? Then I could also look at what didn't she

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Katy Wehr: choose, you know. So anything to do the End Times anything they had to do with ritual purity, because originally these are for children. So she kind of avoided those those kinds of things or teachings on divorce or the woman cotton adultery.

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Katy Wehr: Yeah, she did have a a short relationship with someone, a man who lived in her building when this is back in her son was born in in January 1924.

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Katy Wehr: What's the word? I'm looking for advertising agency? There we go at Benson's advertising, and so but it it turns out actually he was married. He had never he had not told her that, and it was a very short

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Katy Wehr: lived sort of relationship, anyway, but so she had a son that ended up being raised by her cousin

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Katy Wehr: so. But when she married a couple of years later, he was, if her son was officially adopted by her husband.

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Katy Wehr: talked about even with her closest friends. It doesn't seem like she even told her parents

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Katy Wehr: at the time, because she wasn't. You know she was living in London. Her parents were in East Anglia. So

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Andy Miller III: yeah, I think i'm sorry for you. But but it's interesting to me that she and I think it's helpful, because maybe not just for in her own biographical, the that biographical story of what's happening in her life, but also this is for children, and like she's, she's.

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Katy Wehr: What you mentioned to me before we came on that the Wade Center was really helpful to you, which that we in college you might just tell us a little about that. And what's happening there, and how that helped you and your research. Sure. Yeah. So this is a Wade annotated addition. So I Co. Collaborated with

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Katy Wehr: that you can look at there in the reading room. So that's where I looked at thousands of pages of her letters. They have 34,000 pages of her letters. I didn't get through all of them in preparation for this book, but anything from this time period, and specifically especially looking very closely at the ones that are related to these plays

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Andy Miller III: Well, Catherine, thank you so much for your time, and working on this book, and for taking your research and making it something that can help readers understand and enjoy Dorothy Sayers even more every.

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Andy Miller III: But I love that connect that maybe to you specifically. We know now. We know more the story behind this book and your research, and Dorothy Sayers herself. But is there more to the story of Kathryn where than is normally told is, you have some hobbies that you don't get to talk about very much or something you're interested in.

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Katy Wehr: Salome, doing the asking, and then have her there at the foot of the cross, but borrowing something that Sayers has John say, because she has John, saying.

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Katy Wehr: You know we didn't. He's there at the foot of the cross. We didn't know what we were asking when we

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Katy Wehr: you know. Is this what you know

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Katy Wehr: is this: Could this be what your what your kingdom means?

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Katy Wehr: Yup, Katherine, where K. At H. R. Y. N. W. E. H. R. And so Katherine, wear.com, or just Catherine, where at Youtube? And so, along with some of my music stuff, I I do. Some other

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Katy Wehr: videos are kind of like slide shows where I I would pair poetry or or some some thoughts to

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Katy Wehr: yeah different different topics. I it was sort of a a, a, a Covid

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Katy Wehr: goal that I would create one a month. So I have slowed down. But I also have a couple of videos that relate to this book that give people kind of a quick look, and then in more in depth, look at the book as well that I have put up there. So

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Andy Miller III: that's great. Thank you so much for coming. It's it's really a treat to to meet you and thanks again for your work on this project. I'm: sure it's going to help people understand Jesus better, but also appreciate what you say or so. Thank you for your work.

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Katy Wehr: Yeah, it's such a pleasure. Thank you for having me.