Karen Prior, PhD

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Professor of English — Liberty University in Lynchburg

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is an award-winning professor of English at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is the author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a senior fellow with Liberty University's Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, a Senior Fellow with The Trinity Forum, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing reade...

Featured on: Wednesday, June 12, 2019

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November 6, 2026

Penna Dexter

Debanked

A report compiled by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reveals that, between 2020 and 2025, the nine largest U.S. banks deprived certain customers of banking access due to their politics o...

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November 6, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Digital Currency

For more than a year, the European Union and the European Central Bank have been developing a retail and wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) known as the digital euro. It has been promoted...

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November 5, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Drawing Lines

Although the election is in the rear-view mirror, it is worth asking a question from this election that will affect the next election. Who should draw the lines for Congress? Supreme Court justices ha...

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