Karen Swallow Prior: You Have a Calling
A conversation about the truth, goodness, and beauty of our vocations.
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“Focusing on truth, goodness, and beauty first takes us outside of ourselves...but it also changes who we are and how we are and how we do what we do.“ — Karen Swallow Prior
Reader, writer, and erstwhile professor Karen Swallow Prior joins us on the podcast to discuss vocation, literature, and spiritual formation.
What does it mean to have a calling and how does one begin to discover it? Karen Swallow Prior joins us on the podcast to discuss her recent book You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful. Karen unpacks our understanding of vocation and brings new insight into the breadth of one’s callings and how they can change throughout the span of a life. Her skillful use of literature helps to illustrate and amplify her prose, and the pairing brings fresh understanding and new questions to the process of uncovering one’s calling. Karen offers thoughtful insights about this time in history, and if you listen to the end of the credits you’ll hear an excerpt from our conversation where Karen shares what is bringing her joy today.
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Further resources for this interview:
You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful by Karen Swallow Prior
The Priory — Karen’s Substack newsletter
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