{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A Conversation with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior: Why Does Reading Shape the Modern World?","description":"In 2019, The New Yorker profiled writer and professor of English Literature, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. Reporter Eliza Griswold, director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University, highlights Prior's distinctive academic background and literary interests alongside her evangelical faith. The profile positions Prior as a leader and intellectual voice thoughtfully navigating the political and social tensions within evangelicalism. Samuel Loncar, Yale-trained philosopher and scholar of science and religion, who has written in depth about evangelical culture and the Protestant Reformation as a metaphysical revolution, sits down with Prior to discuss the cultural crisis in literacy and reading. In this Becoming Human Conversations episode, they explore how literature shapes our understanding of ourselves and the divine, emphasizing that the virtues cultivated through deep reading are connected to what makes us human. \ud83c\udfa4 Guest: Karen Swallow Prior, PhD | writer, reader, and speaker, and most recently the author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful \ud83c\udfa4 Host: Samuel Loncar, PhD | philosopher, Yale-trained scholar of science and religion, writer, and consultant Resources for Learning More:  ","author_name":"Becoming Human","author_url":"http:\/\/becominghuman.libsyn.com\/website","html":"