Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore - and this in the name of one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame.



Let us, in heaven’s name, drag out the divine drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slipshod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction.

— Dorothy Sayers, Letters to a Diminished Church (p20-21)