Karen Swallow Prior is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Today, Karen shares how she resisted the Lord early in life, becoming a pro-life protester and getting arrested five times, and how getting hit by a bus was a mystical experience. Karen also shares how reading classic literature is an important and formative experience that just happens to be fun as well. Karen’s story reminds us that engaging culture means thoughtful reading.

Listen to Karen’s story today!

Stories Karen shared:

• Growing up in a Christian family in the American Northeast

Great quotes from Karen:

My whole life centered around books when I was a little girl.

I love teaching because I love learning.

[Reading fiction] is an embodied, incarnational experience.

This is where the culture is being shaped, on social media.

We are living in a new dark age in the sense that there is so much information that it’s very difficult to tell truth from fact. But the real battle is that we care about the difference.

Evangelicals don’t like the questions; we just like the answers. Art is about the questions.

Resources we mentioned:

• Karen’s website

Related episodes:

• Skye Jethani and Living Life with God

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