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2016-05-18T15:18:39+00:00

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Dead Boy’s Devoted Daddy

Last updated on: May 18, 2016 at 3:18 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Editor’s Note: This will be my last post on Patheos. I am grateful for the opportunity provided but I feel that my readers will be better served at an ad-free site. Please make note of the new blog address: karenzach.com I hope you will join me there. Thank you for all your years of engagement. I hope we can continue the dialogue at karenzach.com Peter was a friend of my husband. They were both educators. They coached soccer together... Read more

2014-06-26T13:18:38+00:00

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Urban Intellect talks Comedy: Jelani Greenidge

Last updated on: June 26, 2014 at 1:18 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

I knew of Jelani Greenidge long before I met him. We were friends in Social Media, drawn together by faith and community. So imagine my delight at the Faith and Culture Conference when Jelani and I finally had a chance to connect in real time. “Aren’t you Karen?” he asked. I don’t know how he ever picked me out in a room full of blondes. We all look the same. And thus it began, a conversation that ran smack dab... Read more

Faith & Culture Conference

2014-06-24T01:28:55+00:00

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The Holiness of a Place

Last updated on: June 24, 2014 at 1:28 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

Can you see the holiness of a place beyond the “No Trespass” sign? That moment when you knew the things unknown even to the “Video Surveillance”? Bowed your heart in silent gratitude because words nor song were enough. Only sucked back sobbing would suffice in such a... Read more

2014-06-18T05:03:42+00:00

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Appearances: Bristol, Johnson City, & Knoxville

Last updated on: June 18, 2014 at 5:03 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

I am on the road this week. I have a couple of book events lined up in Tennessee. If you are around for either of them, I’d love to see you. Come on out. Bring your friends. Tell your librarians & book clubs. Author Signing Jun 22, 2014 2:00 PM Barnes & Noble Booksellers Johnson City Franklin Terrace 3030 Franklin Terrace Johnson City TN 37604 423-952-5577 Tuesday, June 24, 6 p.m. Union Avenue Books 517 Union Ave Knoxville Tennessee... Read more

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Arts in the Gap

Lincoln Memorial University

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Mercer University Press

Mother of Rain

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Weatherford Award for best in Appalachian Fiction

2014-06-11T05:18:14+00:00

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The Problem with Evil

Last updated on: June 11, 2014 at 5:18 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

I have been intentionally silent. Instead of blogging, I have spent time listening to the ramblings of Elliot Rodger. I watched the news reports of Richard Martinez grieving for his beautiful son, Christopher, one of Rodger’s victims. Mostly I have sat in silence and grieved for the dead and the families they left behind. Those law enforcement officers in Vegas. The Wal-Mart shopper. The students at Seattle Pacific University. And now the family of Emilio Hoffman at Reynolds High School... Read more

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This Present Darkness

Wal-Mart

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2014-05-30T01:35:41+00:00

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A Soul Void

Last updated on: May 30, 2014 at 1:35 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

Let’s get something clear, okay? Hatred is not a mental illness. It is a soul rotted. A soul void of kindness gentleness goodness thoughtfulness empathy A lot of mentally ill folks are good and kind, gentle and thoughtful. Not all, mind you, but most mentally ill folks don’t go around killing people. All of these shooters are giving the mentally ill a bad image What these shooters have in common is not mental illness What these shooters have in common... Read more

2014-05-29T00:39:53+00:00

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Elliot Rodger’s Right

Last updated on: May 29, 2014 at 12:39 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

I have been sitting here in silence. Silence broken by birds chirping, dogs barking and this loud bursting of fireworks going off in my head. Behind the veil of gray matter, beauty and terror reside, a couple at cross-hairs. One chillingly silent in the presence of the other’s fevered shouting. I was only away three days. Out on Friday, back on Monday. Time Traveling via Delta Airlines. The world I flew away from is the not the world to... Read more

Constitutional Rights

2014-05-22T16:01:02+00:00

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Do Something Sacred

Last updated on: May 22, 2014 at 4:01 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

When I went to Vietnam the one thing that disturbed me was the way the Vietnamese exploited their own children for the sake of a dollar. I encountered girls as young as 7 or 8 out on the streets of Saigon (nobody but the press calls it Ho Chi Minh City. HCMC is a political statement) late in the evening approaching complete strangers, trying to sell us one plastic thing after another. Our encounters with children and adults trying... Read more

2014-05-22T05:41:17+00:00

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Summers at Christian Bend, TN

Last updated on: May 22, 2014 at 5:41 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

Wild dogwoods were in bloom when Mama’s Aunt Cil died in spring 1968, and it nearly broke her heart. Aunt Cil was her last physical connection to her mama, Granny Ruth, and with those two matriarchs gone, Mama’s world just crumbled around her. Frank, Linda and I had spent a good bit of time at Aunt Cil’s after Daddy died. Mama would drop us off at her farmhouse whenever she had errands to run. Cil, short... Read more

2014-05-21T00:42:49+00:00

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A Soldier’s Funeral

Last updated on: May 21, 2014 at 12:42 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

The funeral service was held Wednesday morning, August 3, 1966, at McCloud Baptist Church. Mama was up at daybreak. I don’t think she’d slept at all the night before. I could hear her trying to move quietly around the trailer, so as not to wake any of us. Shortly before the sun scrubbed the sky pink, I could hear a pot of coffee percolating. I loved to watch the coffee darken as it thup-thup-thupped through the glass knob... Read more

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