PD James (1920-2014) was the preeminent Christian crime novelist of her time, an avowed and worthy successor to Dorothy Sayers. Her unapologetic Anglo-Catholicism served as the shaping presence of her fiction. One murder mystery occurs in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), another is set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), […]
Author Archives: Ralph Wood
Until his recent retirement, Ralph C. Wood had served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the B.A. and M.A. from Texas A&M University-Commerce as well as the A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has also taught at Wake Forest University, Samford University, Providence College, and Regent College in Vancouver. His major books are devoted to Flannery O’Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K Chesterton. For his 50 years in the classroom, he received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.