High Signal Podcasts Evidence ledger
Method
Browse
← Back to evidence

Evidence receipt / belief

Published · transcript-backed

Katherine Rundell: belief

11 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words

“I think you would have to remember what it was intended to do, the hope and comfort it was intended to give, and you would have to remember the many, many battles that were fought to have it.”

— Katherine Rundell

Source trail

Everything needed to verify it.

Speaker
Katherine Rundell
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Jan 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

Transcript context

…So how do we approach reading The Book of Common Prayer so that it makes sense to us rather than boring us? Oh gosh, that’s really interesting. How do you approach The Book of Common Prayer, which is, I agree, not an obviously galvanic text, particularly if you don’t happen to believe in Christianity. I think you would have to remember what it was intended to do, the hope and comfort it was intended to give, and you would have to remember the many, many battles that were fought to have it. And that, I think, might make it feel alive. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Is that book actually good?…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.

Search evidence