Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP)

PhD in English, 2025-26 Karlson Scholar at Bethel Seminary, Columnist @RNS, Contributing Writer @TheDispatch, The Priory

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

@david_cort7 @kkdumez Well, it’s a history. Is history scolding? Sometimes it is. If you don’t want to hear about how anti-regulatory federal policies favored predatory multi-level marketing operations and won voters (for example) then you might not like it.

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What would otherwise have been a grueling day of travel (flight delays, sitting on runways, etc.) literally flew by because I spent it reading this forthcoming book by @kkdumez!

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This is how to do it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Paul Rogers @The_Paul_Rogers]

I want to thank @KSPrior for the annotated edition of Jane Eyre. It is on my granddaughter's reading list for the summer and so we are getting together to discuss the book before she returns to school. Great notes and helpful discussion questions. The discussion will be a mash up of Jane Eyre, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. I can't wait to see her view of the romances in these classic works.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

You’re not going to save Western Civilization if you don’t know the difference between their, they’re, and there.

[Daniel Allen @TheQuiteBoss]

Mary’s response was simple yet profound: “I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.” In “‘Let It Be’: Mary’s Radical Declaration of Consent,” Karen Swallow Prior wrote that the angel offered “an invitation to Mary to give a very modern turn to a very pre-modern event: verbal consent.”

[James Bryson @theoeides4]

This is the difference between performing the intellectual life and living it. As a Christian Platonist, Peter Kreeft communicates in an unsurpassed way that the only way to practice philosophy is as a way of life.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

The smoke in northern Indiana from the wildfires across the border was fierce today. There was a power outage in the area where my hotel was so I had to repack and move to a different one. But the Winona Lake Christian Writers Conference is pretty amazing. Grateful to be part!

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What a great evening!

[Shemaiah Gonzalez @shemaiahng]

Absolutely full day at Winona Christian Writers Conference I started the conference with the first reading of the day, opening up for the prolific and multi talented Marjorie Maddox. I have a great group in my CNF/Memoir Workshop. It was good to get to know them a bit today. And finally got to meet @KSPrior in person! Such a joy to share a meal and conversation together and then to hear her talk about our vocation, calling and purpose as writers. Sleeping very well today. Let’s do it again tomorrow.

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@wyclif I can’t imagine changing my writing style because of AI.

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@CCOHughes Here you go:

https://t.co/8CKjlO5EUY

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Tonight’s swim

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@danae_hudlow Sounds like War and Peace. 😅

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@LABC222

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Yes, you do!

[Opalite @SwiftieDad43]

Such a blast to hear Dr. @KSPrior discuss her book: You Have a Calling.
A helpful perspective that calms my millennial heart is that calling is usually ordinary and doesn't have to be big and world changing.
And now I need to read Pride and a Prejudice.

[J File @jfile76]

Finished this edition of Heart of Darkness edited by @KSPrior as part of my summer reading. It’s the second one from this series that she edited that I’ve read this summer. I enjoyed Tess of the D’Urbervilles more, but HOD wasn’t bad.

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@jfile76 Both are tough but sharpening reads.

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@NeilShenvi Someone tell Al Mohler.

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@suzania “I can use this technology or that technology to express my thoughts and words” is not the same as “I can use this technology or that technology to express someone else’s thoughts and words.”

This is not hard.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

@kristenrudd That’s amazing! Congrats, all.

[MICHAEL LEE WOMACK @WomackPoetry26]

In the Morning You Hear My Voice by @ronniejmartin consist of 365 Poetic Prayers Reflecting the Nearness of God, and the hardcover version is ON SALE for $15.64

“The prayers and poems in this devotional are inviting in their simple beauty. They invite the reader to contemplate the beauty of God and his creation. They invite the reader to talk to God and to hear his voice all around us. They invite the reader to use God's gift of language to speak with God more directly and quietly, apart from the usual clutter and noise. Invitation accepted.”
— ​ @KSPrior,
Author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good & Beautiful

purchase link: https://t.co/l3gOgGoDUb

@BHpub

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

@IanXley @tom_peters Yes!