Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is also the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me; Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist; and On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books.

Flannery O’Connor’s Grotesque Grace

Karen Swallow Prior

Loving Our Tiger King Neighbors

Karen Swallow Prior

How Toni Morrison Countered the Canon

Karen Swallow Prior

Holding to Hope, Even in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Karen Swallow Prior

The Calling of Flannery O’Connor

Karen Swallow Prior

The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopia by Proof Texting

Karen Swallow Prior

Harper Lee and the moral imagination

Karen Swallow Prior

Stephen King’s Finders Keepers and the place of great literature

Karen Swallow Prior

Up Schitt’s Creek, with a dose of democratic satire

Karen Swallow Prior

The difference between outrage and accountability

Karen Swallow Prior

What we lose by choosing death with dignity

Karen Swallow Prior

What the Tikker death watch reveals about modern mortality

Karen Swallow Prior

The cultural bankruptcy of American bull running

Karen Swallow Prior

'I am not a millennial! I am a human being!'

Karen Swallow Prior

Goth Barbies and cultural desires

Karen Swallow Prior

Why female empowerment doesn’t have to look like Beyonce

Karen Swallow Prior

Why 'novels of belief' are the exception, not the rule

Karen Swallow Prior

Downed trees, excessive heat and the gift of hospitality

Karen Swallow Prior

Mike Daisey, This American Life and the truest story ever told

Karen Swallow Prior

Why it's not worth getting worked up about G.C.B.

Karen Swallow Prior