Karen Swallow Prior on Twitter & the Printing Press
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Good Faith
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week David and Curtis are joined by Karen Swallow Prior, writer, thinker, and research professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Karen talks to us about the current state of affairs in social media, particularly Twitter, and compares its impact on culture and the church to another critical technology, the printing press. She discusses how these modern technologies are impacting our brains, and how we can push back against this through the simple act of reading, especially the (necessarily slow and contemplative) reading of literature.
Show Notes:
-National Endowment of the Arts - "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America"
-Caleb Crain (The New Yorker) - "Why We Don't Read, Revisited"
-Sign up for David's French Press newsletter
-Follow Curtis' work at RedeemingBabel.org
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| 1:14.8 | Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast, I'm David French with Curtis Chang and we've had a guest |
| 1:19.9 | today, a fantastic guest, friend of mine, Karen Swallow prior, who is former professor |
| 1:27.0 | at Liberty University, current professor at southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| 1:32.4 | where she's a research professor of English and Christianity and culture and Curtis |
| 1:38.4 | I'm particularly excited to talk to Karen today because she's going to be talking about |
| 1:43.4 | and one of your passions reading and then of course, Curtis, your other real passion, |
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