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This week on the CBF Podcast Conversation, we welcome Dr. Karen Swallow Prior—writer, literary scholar, and cultural commentator—to explore the deeply human journey of vocation. Karen’s latest book, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful, dismantles one of the most persuasive modern myths: that calling means finding your passion and monetizing it. “The idea that you must find your passion and then make a living doing it is a modern invention,” she writes. “It’s also a lie.” In our conversation, Karen shares how vocation isn’t manufactured by hustle or personal branding but discovered—a response to God’s voice, the needs of others, and the slow formation of virtue.