tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post975582408924875542..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Back to Dodgy DoctorsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-16094743399756587202020-11-15T23:33:12.440+00:002020-11-15T23:33:12.440+00:00Thank you, Sue Sims. I recall years ago someone q...Thank you, Sue Sims. I recall years ago someone quoting to me on the subject some remarks Dorothy Sayers made to Kenneth Kirk, he of the Vision of God, but I can not for the life of me remember exactly what she said or where. I always meant to ask Canon Thurmer of Exeter (who knew more about D. Sayers than anyone else I have met) but alas he is gathered to his reward. Your letter is a big helpOliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29196549956637764962020-11-13T16:26:07.196+00:002020-11-13T16:26:07.196+00:00Oliver Nicholson: I can pre-empt Fr Hunwicke on an...Oliver Nicholson: I can pre-empt Fr Hunwicke on answering your question, as it's something that came up in an exchange of letters between Sayers and C.S. Lewis. He'd been told about a (fairly new) movement for the ordination of women in the Church of England, and written to her strongly disapproving of "allow[ing] women Priests' Orders. I am guessing that, like me, you disapproveSue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70298603934212739812020-11-13T10:20:41.537+00:002020-11-13T10:20:41.537+00:00Father, you bring out the pedant in me! Sayers cou...Father, you bring out the pedant in me! Sayers could hardly have commented on the King's death in 1935 when she wrote in 1923. Also Dawson didn't get his GCB until 1926. Farmer's boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617758580644095560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8303853148185473672020-11-12T16:33:19.122+00:002020-11-12T16:33:19.122+00:00I should be interested to know more about Miss Say...I should be interested to know more about Miss Sayers's views on women being admitted to clerical orders. Can you enlighten us at all ?Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-77467461240727799482020-11-12T09:18:43.136+00:002020-11-12T09:18:43.136+00:00There have been rumours for years of obstetricians...There have been rumours for years of obstetricians' timing of Caesarean sections and induced labour to fit around their golfing engagements. So it would not be altogether surprising if doctors started timing deaths as well.PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52270676816805994882020-11-12T02:32:36.418+00:002020-11-12T02:32:36.418+00:00For me, Sayers will always the writer who introduc...For me, Sayers will always the writer who introduced me to Dante, after I discovered a copy of the Penguin Classsics Purgatory in a second-hand book shop at the age of seventeen.Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38111961351856723292020-11-11T17:12:00.390+00:002020-11-11T17:12:00.390+00:00The arguments in favour of euthanasia are, these d...The arguments in favour of euthanasia are, these days, well rehearsed. It was startling to read that one of Dawson's motivations was to time the death to fit in with the schedule for publishing the Times. How long before we see the NHS scheduling deaths in the afternoon to support reduced staff levels on the night shift? Or in the autumn to reduce the burden during the winter flu season?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09347231130073317533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80944437287223305142020-11-11T12:01:47.989+00:002020-11-11T12:01:47.989+00:00Dear Father, I look forward to your remarks on DL ...Dear Father, I look forward to your remarks on DL Sayers and anti-Semitism. Please could you also check whether or not she or her ancestors owned slaves.Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264379572686048595noreply@blogger.com