Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory)
@KSPrior
Reader, writer, dog lover, Ph.D. Columnist @RNS, Contributing Writer @TheDispatch, also at The Priory https://substack.com/@karenswallowprior
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
My friend @KSPrior has written a beautiful book on vocation. She reminds us that our calling isn’t about striving, grasping, or climbing ladders, but about being attuned to truth, goodness, and beauty. We’re called to live lives of meaning, virtue, and alignment.
The greatest threat to human life and dignity of the 21st century is spiritual manipulation, and nothing else is even close
Big Dictionary strikes again:
'Irregardless' is a word.
Time after time, grift and child sexual abuse go together. Beware the grifters. julieroys.com/conservative-a…
This book is absolutely amazing! I love it for many reasons...and after it comes out and you read it, see if you can figure out just one of the reasons why 😉😊
You can still PRE-ORDER You Have a Calling between now and Aug. 4 and gain immediate electronic access to the book through NetGalley here . (You will still receive the beautiful hardbound copy at release time.) open.substack.com/pub/karenswall…
You can still PRE-ORDER You Have a Calling between now and Aug. 4 and gain immediate electronic access to the book through NetGalley here . (You will still receive the beautiful hardbound copy at release time.) open.substack.com/pub/karenswall…
"Jane Austen teaches me to not be so nostalgic about how things used to be, or what used to be respectable, that I don't see the potential for newer forms and newer ways." Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @KSPrior discusses how Austen's use of novels for moral instruction was…
Protestant to another Protestant: Not THAT kind of Protestantism!!! 😅
It's fitting that the Bible links the authority of shepherd-teachers with their love for the flock; that its main criteria for leaders is that they be of humble, gentle, & good character; that David's best moments are marked by his passionate & tender heart.
Beliefs are not utterly and entirely disembodied, not utterly and entirely of the head. They are connected to communities and of the heart. When people you belived in prove to be unbelievable, everything shifts.
Abusive people getting big mad when other people leave their abusive places … go figure.
Honored to have a chapter in this new volume on the life and legacy of Phillips Brooks, most known for writing “O, Little Town of Bethlehem.”
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
People are dismissed, mocked, maligned, ignored, and doubted. When they stumble, they are kicked rather than helped up. Then when they finally walk away from communities they yearned for and invested in, it is said, “See, told you so. They never were one of us.”
This became one of my top-3 books when I read this edition a few years ago.
Whoa.
Book categories are so funny! 😂
