This week, Heather sits down with Viral Jesus “honorary co-host” Karen Swallow Prior to debate the origins of the evangelical motion’s PR troubles. And few thought leaders are higher certified to place the difficulty right into a hopeful perspective than Karen Swallow Prior. Enjoyable Truth: That is Karen’s third look on Viral Jesus, and probably the most of any of our friends up to now.

Karen’s newest e book, The Evangelical Creativeness, is about how artwork, literature, and fashionable tradition have helped push evangelicals into an existential disaster of types. And naturally, social media, with its penchant for each pleasure and destruction, performs a task on this evangelical saga.

In her wide-ranging dialog with Heather, Karen brings sociological context to the latest speak of evangelical deconstruction; she makes the case for a return to advantage; and he or she provides a postmortem on purity tradition, exhibiting how its roots might be noticed within the pages of traditional literature. This crackling, high-energy chat will go away you able to get your copy of Karen’s e book posthaste.

On this episode Heather additionally spends some high quality time along with her greatest pal and co-blogger Scarlett Longstreet for this week’s Protected Area phase. At this time, Heather asks Scarlett, who is just not a Christian, to share what she likes and dislikes concerning the Christian influencers that she follows.

Visitor BioKaren Swallow Prior, PhD, is a reader, author, and professor. She is the writer of The Evangelical Creativeness: How Tales, Photographs, and Metaphors Created a Tradition in Disaster (Brazos, 2023). She has a month-to-month column for Faith Information Service. Her writing has appeared at Christianity At this time, The New York Instances, The Atlantic, The Washington Submit, First Issues, and Vox.

Host BioHeather Thompson Day is an affiliate professor of communication at Andrews College in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She is the writer of eight books, together with I’ll See You Tomorrow and It’s Not Your Flip. Attain out to Heather on X, the app previously generally known as Twitter, at @HeatherTDay and on Instagram @heatherthompsonday.

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