Ep. 111: Finding our Callings in Every Season of Life, with Karen Swallow Prior, writer and public intellectual

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Nov 03 2025 | 00:52:26

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Show Notes

Karen Swallow Prior is the author of several books, among them The Evangelical Imagination, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More. A prominent voice in the Christian public sphere, she is a frequent speaker, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, a contributing writer at Dispatch, and a monthly columnist at Religion News Service. Karen and I talk today about her most recent book, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful.

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