Karen Swallow Prior
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social
Reader, writer, dog lover, Ph.D. Most recent book: You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful. Find me on Substack at The Priory.
I spoke at a church group today. A young person on staff at the church prepared and submitted to me a formal (short) paper, title page and all (asking permission, of course, to “submit” it.) Permission was granted. i will “grade” it tonight and return it to her. Once a prof, always a prof, I guess!
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I spoke at a church group today. A young person on staff at the church prepared and submitted to me a formal (short) paper, title page and all (asking permission, of course, to “submit” it.) Permission was granted. i will “grade” it tonight and return it to her. Once a prof, always a prof, I guess!
Now is a good time for individuals and institutions to know what you believe, why you believe it, and to stand for it regardless of what the influencers or your donors say. Because there is no winning that game.
Integrity is priceless and eternal.
Integrity is priceless and eternal.
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Now is a good time for individuals and institutions to know what you believe, why you believe it, and to stand for it regardless of what the influencers or your donors say. Because there is no winning that game.
Integrity is priceless and eternal.
Integrity is priceless and eternal.
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New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
A winter wonderland
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A winter wonderland
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Excited for this! Definitely picking up an unabridged copy with footnotes, ready to rediscover just how sharp and satirical Gulliver’s Travels really is. 😏
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Excited for this! Definitely picking up an unabridged copy with footnotes, ready to rediscover just how sharp and satirical Gulliver’s Travels really is. 😏
An increasingly important question to ask:
Who is profiting by fanning the flames of your discontentment?
Who is profiting by fanning the flames of your discontentment?
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An increasingly important question to ask:
Who is profiting by fanning the flames of your discontentment?
Who is profiting by fanning the flames of your discontentment?
Over at The Priory, we’ll be starting a slow read of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS on December 30. Plenty of time to grab a copy (make sure it’s unabridged and preferably with footnotes). This is not the children’s story you might remember! 😏
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December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Over at The Priory, we’ll be starting a slow read of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS on December 30. Plenty of time to grab a copy (make sure it’s unabridged and preferably with footnotes). This is not the children’s story you might remember! 😏
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Credit: Susan Danielle (on X: realprophetguy)
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Credit: Susan Danielle (on X: realprophetguy)
“A recent lawsuit claims leaders of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, ignored repeated warnings about child sexual abuse and domestic violence and pressured a mother to keep her children in harm’s way.”
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
Lawsuit: Grace Community Church Pressured Mother to Return Children to Alleged Abuser and Rebuked Her for Reporting to Police
A lawsuit claims Grace Community Church ignored warnings of child sexual abuse, pressuring a mother to keep children with an abusive father.
julieroys.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“A recent lawsuit claims leaders of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, ignored repeated warnings about child sexual abuse and domestic violence and pressured a mother to keep her children in harm’s way.”
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Love this new review of You Have a Calling! Click the link for a book giveaway! www.diveindigdeep.com/blog/book-re...
You Have a Calling — @diveindigdeep
In You Have a Calling , Karen Swallow Prior writes about finding your vocation in what is true, good, and beautiful.
www.diveindigdeep.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Love this new review of You Have a Calling! Click the link for a book giveaway! www.diveindigdeep.com/blog/book-re...
Happy Thanksgiving from the band.
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Happy Thanksgiving from the band.
I got to meet Thomas while I was in Cambridge last year, which makes me treasure his review of You Have a Calling all the more, knowing what a great mind and heart he has. Thankful!
www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-...
www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-...
Book Review: You Have a Calling
As someone who is fortunate enough to have found a career that intersects with key aspects of his calling, and manages to be paid for it, I’m often asked (surprisingly, often by family and friends who...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I got to meet Thomas while I was in Cambridge last year, which makes me treasure his review of You Have a Calling all the more, knowing what a great mind and heart he has. Thankful!
www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-...
www.thomascreedy.co.uk/book-review-...
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Have we confused employment with divine purpose?
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social joins us to unpack why #evangelical culture taught us to spiritualize our careers…and why it might be time to let that go.
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social joins us to unpack why #evangelical culture taught us to spiritualize our careers…and why it might be time to let that go.
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Have we confused employment with divine purpose?
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social joins us to unpack why #evangelical culture taught us to spiritualize our careers…and why it might be time to let that go.
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
@karenswallowprior.bsky.social joins us to unpack why #evangelical culture taught us to spiritualize our careers…and why it might be time to let that go.
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
Nevertheless, we all need art. And art needs us. Art needs us to watch, to listen, to view, to read, to appreciate, to ask, to puzzle, to pay money, to simply pay attention.
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Live Art-full-y
Skip the robots and enjoy real humans making real art.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Nevertheless, we all need art. And art needs us. Art needs us to watch, to listen, to view, to read, to appreciate, to ask, to puzzle, to pay money, to simply pay attention.
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
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On the latest episode of #SavedByTheCity, we are joined by @karenswallowprior.bsky.social as we discuss all the different ways callings can present themselves in our lives. (That’s right – callings, plural!).
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
On the latest episode of #SavedByTheCity, we are joined by @karenswallowprior.bsky.social as we discuss all the different ways callings can present themselves in our lives. (That’s right – callings, plural!).
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
Hear the full conversation: linktr.ee/savedbythecity
…almost any writer will tell you that you cannot produce (create) thoughts and ideas while in the judging (criticizing) mode. You must get the words and ideas out—write, write, write—and then step back and judge, critique, edit, and revise.
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Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ... "
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November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
…almost any writer will tell you that you cannot produce (create) thoughts and ideas while in the judging (criticizing) mode. You must get the words and ideas out—write, write, write—and then step back and judge, critique, edit, and revise.
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
Folks, Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is chock full of advice not only about literary criticism but also about WRITING.
Writers, you might want to give this one a look:
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
Writers, you might want to give this one a look:
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ... "
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Folks, Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is chock full of advice not only about literary criticism but also about WRITING.
Writers, you might want to give this one a look:
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
Writers, you might want to give this one a look:
open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...
“Bannon offered Epstein something irresistible: to build a right-wing MAGA coalition that would “stave off” the global movement against sexual harassment for more than a decade.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“Bannon offered Epstein something irresistible: to build a right-wing MAGA coalition that would “stave off” the global movement against sexual harassment for more than a decade.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
‘Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
—from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism, our reading next week at The Priory. Subscribe now! substack.com/@karenswallo...
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
—from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism, our reading next week at The Priory. Subscribe now! substack.com/@karenswallo...
Karen Swallow Prior | Substack
A reader and writer attending more closely to what is good, true, and beautiful. 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary. The Priory is devoted to the holy cultivation of a rich inner life. “Attent...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
‘Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
—from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism, our reading next week at The Priory. Subscribe now! substack.com/@karenswallo...
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
—from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism, our reading next week at The Priory. Subscribe now! substack.com/@karenswallo...