Self-Help Isn't Forming You More Like Christ?—Feat. Karen Swallow Prior

On This Week's Episode:

Nick has a conversation with Karen Swallow Prior, an incredible author who most recently released The Evangelical Imagination. In this conversation, we discuss wow we're formed by "the water we're swimming in" - our social imaginary - which includes the idea that our lives, our bank accounts, our careers, our families, and our societies should be continually improving. How exactly is self-help different than formation/discipleship? Does it self-improvement even have a place in our journey to grow to be more like Christ?

About Our Guest, Karen Swallow Prior:

Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is a reader, writer, and professor. She is the author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023); On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books (Brazos 2018); Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014); and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues (Zondervan 2019) and has contributed to numerous other books. She has a monthly column for Religion News Service. Her writing has appeared at Christianity Today, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, The Gospel Coalition, and various other places. She hosted the podcast Jane and Jesus. 

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