You Have a Calling - by Karen Swallow Prior (Hardcover)

About the Book

Our vocations don't always align with our passions. Award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior shows we are all called pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful, no matter what our passion, job, role, or station in life.

Book Synopsis

Some people are lucky enough to get paid to do what they love. But many are not.

What if your vocation doesn't align with your passion? In You Have a Calling, award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior has encouraging news: If we pursue the good, true, and beautiful in all our work, we will find our greatest fulfillment.

In an age when passion and calling are often confused, Prior helps readers understand that passions come from within, while our calling, or vocation, comes from without and is about being called by others to serve. That crucial distinction can help us understand how God can use both our passions and our work, even if for different purposes.

This book will appeal to everyone who wants to know that their daily work, ordinary though it may be, can fulfill a higher calling to God. Readers will emerge with a renewed sense of purpose, knowing they are created for virtue in all they do because they are created in the image of God.

From the Back Cover

"Dives deep into something that we all wrestle with: our place in the world and the work we've been given to do"

What if your vocation doesn't align with your passion?

In You Have a Calling, award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior has encouraging news: If you pursue the good, true, and beautiful in all your work, you will find your greatest fulfillment.

"Prior offers wisdom, experience, and horse sense not just to students preparing for the lives ahead of them but to adults who find themselves floundering. You Have a Calling deftly identifies the lies that distort our sense of what we are meant to accomplish in life and outlines a better way forward."
--Susan Wise Bauer, author of History of the Ancient World and The Well-Educated Mind

"With her usual wisdom and clarity, Prior dives deep into something that we all wrestle with: our place in the world and the work we've been given to do. I heartily commend this book."
--Andrew Peterson, singer, songwriter, and author

"This is essential reading--especially for young adults navigating life's greatest questions."
--Anthony B. Bradley, distinguished research fellow, The Acton Institute; research professor, Kuyper College

About the Author

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the author of You Have a Calling, The Evangelical Imagination, On Reading Well, Fierce Convictions, and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. She is coeditor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues and has contributed to numerous other books. Prior is a frequent speaker, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, a contributing writer at The Dispatch, a research fellow at Comment, and a monthly columnist at Religion News Service.