I'm an Absolute Beast in Tolken Trivia

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Karen's last book, m un reading well, finding the good life through great books, came out in 20 18. She says social media plays a part in that people are hungering for these lasting words of greater depth and metaphor and imagery. Her own denomination has asked her to produce a series of classics with my introductions,. ad n notes and so forth.

This week David and Curtis are joined by Karen Swallow Prior, writer, thinker, and research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Karen talks to us about the current state of affairs in social media, particularly Twitter, and compares its impact on culture and the church to another critical technology, the printing press. She discusses how these modern technologies are impacting our brains, and how we can push back against this through the simple act of reading, especially the (necessarily slow and contemplative) reading of literature.

Show Notes:

-National Endowment of the Arts - “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America”

-Caleb Crain (The New Yorker) - “Why We Don’t Read, Revisited”

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-Follow Curtis’ work at RedeemingBabel.org