Seeking a Life Well Lived

September 4th, 2025 | 5 min read

Karen Swallow Prior, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful. Brazos Press, 2025. $21.99, 160 pp.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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