Art and the Evangelical Imagination (with Karen Swallow Prior)

| July 18, 2024 | 0 comments

Reader, Author, Thinker, and Teacher Karen Swallow Prior joins Michael for a discussion of her book, The Evangelical Imagination, and particularly, how the ideas of that book apply to the arts. In their wide-ranging conversation, they touch on metaphor, language, fact and fiction, redemption stories, the connection between sentimentality and power, and much more. Stay tuned at the end of the episode to listen to “Don’t I Know?” by Physick, from their record, All the Days.

Show Notes:

Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

The Tree of Life, dir. by Terence Malick

“The Answer Man,” from You Like it Darker, by Stephen King

A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor

Charles Taylor, philosopher

“Christian Nationalism is a Failure of Imagination”, by Karen Swallow Prior

Politics is Downstream from Culture, Season 1, Episode 4 of the Renew the Arts Podcast

An Experiment in Criticism, by C. S. Lewis

On cultivating emotions toward virtue: On Reading Well, by Karen Swallow Prior

On sentimentality and obscenity: “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” from Mystery and Manners, by Flannery O’Connor

“The Sentimentality Trap”, by Benjamin Myers

Connecting with Karen Swallow Prior:

karenswallowprior.com

On X: @KSPrior

Sub stack: The Priory

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