Karen Swallow Prior

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Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary. She is the author of You Have a Calling; The Evangelical Imagination; On Reading Well; Fierce Convictions; and Booked. 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 for Comment, and a monthly columnist at Religion News Service.

You Have a Calling
The Evangelical Imagination
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
Plough Quarterly No. 25
Sense and Sensibility
Cultural Engagement
Plough Quarterly No. 19
On Reading Well
Romeo and Juliet
Fierce Convictions
Booked
Heart of Darkness

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The Light in Our Eyes
Traveling Light
What Are Christians For?
The Gospel in Dickens
Necklace
Katharina and Martin Luther
Eight Women of Faith

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Spirits in Bondage

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