Becoming Human with Samuel Loncar

Readers, I do a lot of interviews, but this is a special one among special ones—it is a delightful conversation I had with one of my students from long ago who has since gone to Yale, earned a Ph.D., and is a tremendous scholar. It is my pleasure to share this conversation with Samuel Loncar.

Here is how he introduces this segment within his Becoming Human Project:

Reporter Eliza Griswold, director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University, highlights Prior's distinctive academic background and literary interests alongside her evangelical faith. The profile positions Prior as a leader and intellectual voice thoughtfully navigating the political and social tensions within evangelicalism.

Samuel Loncar, Yale-trained philosopher and scholar of science and religion, who has written in depth about evangelical culture and the Protestant Reformation as a metaphysical revolution, sits down with Prior to discuss the cultural crisis in literacy and reading.

In this Becoming Human Conversations episode, they explore how literature shapes our understanding of ourselves and the divine, emphasizing that the virtues cultivated through deep reading are connected to what makes us human.

🎤 Guest: Karen Swallow Prior, PhD | writer, reader, and speaker, and most recently the author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful

🎤 Host: Samuel Loncar, PhD | philosopher, Yale-trained scholar of science and religion, writer, and consultant

I hope you will listen. If you do and you like it, please know that Samuel and I are cooking up some future collaborations. I’d love to know if you’d like more! Please let us know in the comments!