"All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendancy over the minds of men by virtue of their appeal to the imagination; and when they cease to touch the chords of wonder and mystery and hope, their power is lost, and men look elsewhere for some set of principles by which they may be guided.”Russell Kirk wrote that in 1955. Seven decades later, Karen Swallow Prior shows how prophetic Kirk was in her book, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created … [Read more...] about Crafting a New Evangelical Imagination
Karen Swallow Prior
On Living Well
Sometimes, Admiration is the only appropriate response to a book. Case in Point: On Reading Well, by Karen Swallow Prior (Prior’s nom de Twitter is NotoriousKSP, which tells you a lot.) On Reading Well is remarkable for how cleverly structured it is. When you are looking at a Great Painting, you first notice the image, but as you look at it longer, you notice that the brilliance of the painting is not the object which was painted, but the way the author constructed that image. What … [Read more...] about On Living Well