Metaphor, Memoir, and Christian Longing and Vision—All from a Midwest Farm, with Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Wheaton College

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

Mar 04 2024 | 00:38:53

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Show Notes

Tiffany Eberle Kriner is associate professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. The author of the scholarly book The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading as well as a number of articles and chapters in academic venues, Kriner is more recently the author of the memoir In Thought, Word, and Seed: Reckonings from a Midwest Farm, a book that shares her experience operating a sixty-acre farm against the backdrop of America’s racial troubles, the COVID pandemic, and her desire more fully to understand the grace and kingdom of God.

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