Karen Swallow Prior
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Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful; 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 coeditor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues and has contributed to numerous other books. Prior is a frequent speaker, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, a contributing writer at The Dispatch, a research fellow at Comment, and a monthly columnist at Religion News Service.


Books by Karen Swallow Prior

  1. You Have a Calling
    Hardcover

    You Have a Calling

    Aug 2025
  2. The Evangelical Imagination
    Hardcover

    The Evangelical Imagination

    Aug 2023
  3. The Evangelical Imagination
    E-Book

    The Evangelical Imagination

    Aug 2023
  4. On Reading Well
    Paperback

    On Reading Well

    Feb 2022
  5. On Reading Well
    E-Book

    On Reading Well

    Sep 2018