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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 16h

There was a lot of what was for me jargon I didn’t understand but the point that living with our personalities and proclivities (their strengths and limitations) is not sin is spot on!

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 17h

Today my yoga instructor encouragingly asked me to demonstrate the *one* pose I can do better than the others in my class (believe me, I am the most remedial student and never get asked to demonstrate!) so I did, but I didn’t do it quite right, and she said, “That’s alright!” 🥹

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 1d

The couple described in On Chesil Beach in 1962 could be any church kids in 2022. And that should not be.

I loved this book.

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Books I Cannot Recommend*

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 2d

Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again …

—Mary Oliver

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t make me tap the sign.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I’m no longer Southern Baptist. 🙂

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 4d

I lived 58 years before I ever even thought about needing therapy.

The Southern Baptist Convention changed my mind.

#WorldMentalHealthDay

(I’m 60 now and doing much better, in part thanks to therapy.)

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 4d

Next week, my newsletter will feature the next installment in my series titled, “Books I Cannot Recommend.” It’s a fun series! 😃

Here’s an earlier entry. Sign up to get it free in your inbox.

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Books I Cannot Recommend*

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not too late to register for my eight-week online graduate course on the literature of the good the true and beautiful at @ics-canada.bsky.social

Details here: f2bf.icscanada.edu#page-j

Home

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 5d

Offerings for your weekend listening and reading pleasure:

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EXTRA: Podcasts, Plough, and More!

Goodies for your weekend reading and listening

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 7d

After ~15 years of teaching my biggest realization has been this: students don’t need the professor to be cool, they need the professor to think THEY are cool

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 7d

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What to do if your job ends tomorrow

Karen Swallow Prior helps us engage career shock and organizational change with the wisdom of some permanent things.

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Dori Moody @dorimoody.bsky.social · 9d

"Sometimes, people will leave a role and explain their departure by saying God has “called” them elsewhere. At times, I wish they’d simply say, 'Hey, I decided I want to do this new thing.' Because surely that is the case at times."

@karenswallowprior.bsky.social

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How Do You Find Your Calling in Life?

I don’t have a secret formula or surefire plan, but I can point you in the right direction.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 7d

🤣🤣🤣

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Amy Julia Becker @amyjuliabecker.bsky.social · 8d

Some people get paid to do what they love, but many don’t. How can we find purpose in everyday work? Author @karenswallowprior.bsky.social joins me to discuss You Have a Calling and how vocation is about goodness, truth, beauty, and relationships, not just career. amyjuliabecker.com/calling-voca...

How Do You Know Your Calling? - Amy Julia Becker

Some people get paid to do what they love, but most don’t. Karen Swallow Prior helps us find purpose in everyday work we don’t always love.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 8d

Pope made an unexpected and passionate declaration of love to her, one that so took her by surprise that she burst out in laughter in his face. (This is the moment captured years later in the painting at the start of this post.)

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Alexander Pope's "To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu"

It's complicated.

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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 9d

“Vocation is not about being able to fulfill our desires, pursue our passions, or follow our bliss. Vocation is about being called by others to serve. This understanding offers a much bigger vision of vocation than mere self-fulfillment.” @karenswallowprior.bsky.social

How Do You Find Your Calling in Life?

I don’t have a secret formula or surefire plan, but I can point you in the right direction.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow would have been my parents’ 64th anniversary, but we lost mom last November.

My brother is here and we will make the day special for my dad, but it’s going to be a hard day for him.

Would appreciate any prayers from those who pray.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 10d

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Christian blogger's post helped expose Gateway Church founder's abuse, leading to guilty plea

Dee Parsons, who published survivor Cindy Clemishire's story, says the conviction sends a global message and offers hope to survivors still waiting to be heard.

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Julie Roys @julieroys.bsky.social · 11d

Less than a week after The Roys Report exposed sexual harassment allegations against former Liberty University VP Jay Spencer, Houston Christian University has fired him.

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Houston Christian University Fires Administrator After TRR Publishes Allegations of Sexual Harassment

Days after TRR reported sexual harassment claims against Jay Spencer, Houston Christian University (HCU) fired him.

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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 11d

Right now—more than half off The Evangelical Imagination! 💥💥💥

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Julie Roys @julieroys.bsky.social · 12d

Robert Morris, founder of Gateway Church in Texas, pleaded guilty to 5 felony counts of sexually abusing Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 yo.
Under a plea deal, Morris will serve 6 months in jail, register as a sex offender & pay $250,000 in restitution. 1/2
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