Happy Hour #330: Karen Swallow Prior

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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My guest for The Happy Hour #330 is Karen Swallow Prior. Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In today’s episode, Karen talks about her experience of going from a private person to a public person, the stigmas and baggage that come with remaining a southern baptist, and some of the downsides of having a visible platform. She also gets vulnerable about some of the recent challenges she is facing around leaving her employer of 21 years, and the corruption of power that we see within the evangelical world. For the full summary and show links, click the link below! Text YOUBEYOU to 33777 Connect with Jamie Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // YouTube GET ALL THE LINKS FROM THE SHOW HERE

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.
0:04.0	I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.
0:06.7	Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things
0:10.2	in life, the little things in life and everything in between.
0:23.6	Happy October 14th today is episode number 330 and my guess for the happier today is
0:27.7	Dr. Karen Swallow Prior.
0:29.7	Karen is a research professor of English and Christianity and Culture at southeastern
0:33.5	Baptist Theological Seminary.
0:35.1	She's the author of several books including on Reading Well and her writing has appeared
0:39.5	in numerous places including Christianity today, The Washington Post, Relevant, The Gospel
0:43.5	Coalition and so much more.
0:45.4	She and her husband have 35 years currently lived in Central Virginia and you guys, I've
0:49.6	been a long time fan and admirer of Karen's voice and her writing and I am so thankful
0:55.5	that she's joining us on the podcast today.
0:57.9	I read an article that she published back in August and we will link to that in our
1:01.1	show notes and we talk about it in the show today and as I read that article I knew this
1:05.4	is the time to have Karen on the show, although I've been dreaming about having her on forever.
1:10.6	In today's episode, Karen talks about her experience and going from a private person to
1:14.4	a public person, the stigmas and baggage that come with remaining a Southern Baptist
1:17.8	and some of the downsides of having a visible platform.
1:21.3	She also gets vulnerable about some of the recent challenges that she's facing around
1:25.2	leaving her employer of 21 years and the corruption of power that we see within the evangelical
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