Gracious Servanthood in Downton Abbey
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/01/gracious-servanthood-in-downton-abbey/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook January 15, 2013 By Geoffrey Reiter Leave a Comment One of the latest fads to cross the pond from England to America is Downton Abbey , the brainchild of Gosford Park creator Sir Julian Fellowes. The show, whose third season premiered for American audiences this month, follows the affairs of the British aristocratic Crawley family, while also keeping up with the lives of their various paid servants “downstairs.” The first season began with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but the show has already reached 1920 by now, meaning that it spans a transitional time in English history, not only encapsulating the epochal events of World War I, but also political and social upheavals in the roles of women, Irish citizens, and, perhaps most relevantly for the series, paid servants. The question has already...