Karen Swallow Prior
Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is a reader, writer, speaker and professor. She is the author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023); On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books (Brazos 2018); Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014); and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues (Zondervan 2019) and has contributed to numerous other books. She has a monthly column for Religion News Service. Her writing has appeared at Christianity Today, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, The Gospel Coalition, and various other places. She hosted the podcast Jane and Jesus. She is a Contributing Editor for Comment, a founding member of The Pelican Project, and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. She and her husband live on a 100-year-old homestead in central Virginia with dogs, chickens and lots of books.
‘Cosplay Christianity’: The sin is in the denial of the life God calls us to
Beauty is the extravagance that makes us human
With this much rot, there’s no choice but to deconstruct
Don’t believe in systemic racism? Let’s talk about the sexual revolution.
The social-media-examined life is not the one that sustains us
The evangelical sexual abuse crisis is the spiritual warfare of our time
Beth Moore left the SBC after the SBC left women to fend for themselves
Shame, grace and #STOPtheSTEAL
Still Baptist. Still evangelical.
‘AKA Jane Roe’ and the humiliation of the pro-life movement
Six books to get you through a coronavirus shutdown
