Karen Swallow Prior: Is it biblical, or is it Victorian?

Words by writer, speaker and columnist Karen Swallow Prior are heard often on The Common Good, but today Brian and Aubrey get to interview her about her most recent book: The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis.

The book unpacks the social imaginary, or the collective metaphors and understandings, that a group might have and pass on without even realizing it. In this case, Karen explores those held by evangelicals--for example, the concept of conversion, which was largely forgotten in the 18th century because of the relationship between the church and the state, but was brought back into vogue by evangelicals. 

Most significantly, Karen shares how the book became increasingly her personal story as she was finishing it; what started out as a more academic examination became a personal story.

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