Karen Swallow Prior (Author of On Reading Well)

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Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the award-winning author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis; On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books; Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist; and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Vox. She is a Contributing Editor for Comment, a founding member of The Pelican Project, a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a Senior Fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education.

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Christianity Today: Taking Shots From Both Sides

At the Evangelical Press Association's 2017 convention, Christianity Today made a strong showing, winning a total of . Particularly notable was Christianity Today magazine's First Place Higher Goals Award for "," by Karen Swallow Prior.Prior recently sat down with Joy Beth Smith, a managing editor with Christianity Today, to discuss her article Read more of this blog post »

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	On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior, Leland Ryken (Foreword) 4.35 avg rating — 3,157 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More鈥擯oet, Reformer, Abolitionist 3.93 avg rating — 1,663 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis 4.24 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me 4.25 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting by Karen Swallow Prior, Thomas Hardy 4.22 avg rating — 137 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting by Karen Swallow Prior, Nathaniel Hawthorne 4.10 avg rating — 138 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife: A Review of Criticism and a New Analysis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Para ler bem: Encontrando a boa vida por meio dos grandes livros by Karen Swallow Prior, William Campos da Cruz (translator), Jo茫o Vitor Oliveira da Silva (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reading well adds to our life鈥攏ot in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in the way a friendship adds to our life, altering us forever.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

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“What good literature can do and does do鈥攆ar greater than any importation of morality鈥攊s touch the human soul.”
― Karen Swallow Prior

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“Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know鈥攎ainly because I learned it from books鈥攖hat there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me

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