Dr. Karen Swallow Prior (Author of You Have a Calling)

Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor

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5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How to follow “the true, good, and beautiful” today to find your calling tomorrow

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0:00.0	Hey friend, welcome to the Mere Christians podcast.
0:07.8	I'm Jordan Rayner.
0:09.4	How does the gospel influence the work of mere Christians?
0:12.7	Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals, but who work as hotel managers,
0:17.9	mathematicians, and drywall installers?
0:20.7	That's the question we explore every week, and today I'm posing it to Dr. Karen Swallow
0:25.7	Pryor.
0:26.3	She's an award-winning author and regular contributor to Christianity Today, The Washington
0:32.0	Post, the New York Times, and many other publications.
0:35.3	Karen and I recently sat down to discuss how the advice to follow
0:38.7	your passions into work you love can lead to an unbiblical sense of entitlement. We talked about
0:44.9	how to follow the true good and beautiful today to find your calling tomorrow. And we also talked about
0:50.9	how God can use pain and trauma to steer us into our vocations
0:55.7	just as he did with one of my favorite mere Christians in history, Hannah Moore.
1:01.3	Trust me, you are not going to want to miss this terrific episode with my new friend,
1:05.7	Dr. Karen Swallow-Priar.
1:13.9	Dr. Karen Swallow Pryor, welcome to the Mir
1:16.1	Christian's podcast.
1:17.3	Thank you for having me.
1:18.8	Hey, this is a great honor because I've been a fan of your work from afar for a while
1:22.5	now.
1:23.0	And in August, you're releasing a new book that I am loving called You Have a Calling, Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful.
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