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The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

by Karen Swallow Prior

"Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener."--Publishers WeeklyContemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press.In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By a… Read more…

Frankenstein: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

Frankenstein: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

by Karen Swallow Prior and Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors w… Read more…

Jane Eyre: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

Jane Eyre: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

by Karen Swallow Prior and Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors w… Read more…

Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues

Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues

by Karen Swallow Prior, Joshua D Chatraw, Joshua Chatraw and Josh Chatraw

How should Christians approach important contemporary issues like war, race, creation care, gender, and politics?Christians in every culture are confronted with social trends and moral questions that can be difficult to navigate. But, the Bible often doesn't speak directly to such issues. Even when it does, it can be confusing to know how best to apply t… Read more…

Walking through Infertility: Biblical, Theological, and Moral Counsel for Those Who Are Struggling

Walking through Infertility: Biblical, Theological, and Moral Counsel for Those Who Are Struggling

by Karen Swallow Prior and Matthew Arbo

"This book was written to help you see and understand that God is the Giver of life. You are his child. He cares deeply about you. When you hurt, he hurts with you." —from the Introduction Infertility is the profoundly wounding experience of many couples,… Read more…

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

by Leland Ryken and Karen Swallow Prior

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires one to practice numerous virtues, such as patience, … Read more…

Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

by Shane Claiborne, Karen Swallow Prior, Jim Daly, Mark Galli, Mark Labberton, Soong-Chan Rah, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, Tom Lin, Lisa Sharon Harper, Allen Yeh, Robert Chao Romero and Mark S Young

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - ReligionEvangelicalism in America has cracked, split on the shoals of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, leaving many wondering if they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe. The contentiousness brought to the fore surrounds what it means to affirm and demonstrate evangelical Chri… Read more…

Eight Women of Faith

Eight Women of Faith

by Michael A. G. Haykin and Karen Swallow Prior

Read the Stories of Eight Remarkable Women and Their Vital Contributions to Church History Throughout history, women have been crucial to the growth and flourishing of the church. Historian Michael A. G. Haykin highlights the lives of eight of these women w… Read more…

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

by Eric Metaxas and Karen Swallow Prior

With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, l… Read more…

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

by Eric Metaxas, Karen Swallow Prior and Christine Stevens

Narrated by Christine Stevens

Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution.With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biograp… Read more…

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