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2013-02-18T01:53:49+00:00

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Immigration Reform: No easy answers

Last updated on: February 18, 2013 at 1:53 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

I bought a new bird feeder this week, along with a bag full of new feed. The kind that is supposed to attract wild birds. I don’t think we have any real wild birds here in Eastern Oregon. Robins are common. As are red-winged blackbirds. Sometimes finches will find their way to the feeders. But there are no bluebirds, no redbirds, no blue jays or birds of color, really. Birds feathered in browns and blacks mostly, like New Yorkers who work... Read more

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2013-02-14T08:09:21+00:00

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Rethinking Lent

Last updated on: February 14, 2013 at 8:09 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

When I was growing up in the Bible Belt no one ever mentioned Lent. I didn’t know a single adult who participated in the practice. I never saw people walking around town with a thumbprint of ashes on their foreheads. Seems to me that Baptist were sacrificing stuff all the time — we didn’t really need a season of sacrifice. We were already forbidden from drinking, playing cards, seeing anything but a Disney movie, wearing pants with a fly in... Read more

2013-02-12T15:58:07+00:00

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Guns-N-Churches

Last updated on: February 12, 2013 at 3:58 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Well as far as I’m concerned Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe just struck a blow for church attendance nationwide. Okay, well, maybe not nationwide, but certainly in Arkansas. Beebe, a Democrat, signed into law on Monday a bill that allows concealed-carry permit holders to take their weapons into churches. The Church Protection Act allows individual places of worship to decide whether to allow concealed handguns and who could carry them. Churches that take no action will remain off-limits to guns. For... Read more

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2013-02-09T02:20:44+00:00

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The Hacking of George W. Bush

Last updated on: February 9, 2013 at 2:20 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

We did a class exercise recently in which I had the students find out everything they could about one another via the Internet and Social Media. It was disturbing how much information they could glean about one another, simply by trolling online. Out of a class of 30 plus students, the privacy of only two or three students remained intact. Information on all the others was readily available . Seemingly private information — like what they ate for breakfast on... Read more

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2013-02-07T16:10:54+00:00

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Women in Combat

Last updated on: February 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Frances L. Clayton was a woman who, dressing and acting as a man, served in the Union Army during the Civil War under the pseudonym of Jack Williams. Handwriting on the back of the card indicates that she served in the 4th Missouri Heavy Artillery, Company I, and the 13th Missouri Frances Clalin Clayton was a tall slim housewife with 3 children when she did the unthinkable. Frances disguised herself as a man, and using the pseudonym “Jack Williams” enlisted with... Read more

2013-02-04T15:34:56+00:00

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What’s a Gay Boy Scout to do?

Last updated on: February 4, 2013 at 3:34 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

This week the Boy Scouts of America will vote on whether or not to end its long standing policy against gays as members and leaders. They voted on the same matter last year and upheld the ban against gays. The Boy Scout’s ruling is archaic, based upon unfounded fears, but old fears are hard to overcome. President Obama said that he thinks the Boy Scouts need to remove their ban against gays. “My attitude is … that gays and lesbians should... Read more

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2013-02-03T05:22:35+00:00

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We’d All Be Lunatics

Last updated on: February 3, 2013 at 5:22 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

Writing, for me, is a form of praying. I often think of John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In my office drawer is a folder filled with cards from people who have walked alongside me for a season. I can open any of those cards and recall the voice of that person and the experiences we shared, whether it be a friend from high school, a roommate from... Read more

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2013-02-01T15:20:44+00:00

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God’s Super Bowl Team

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 3:20 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

With the Big Game just days away you probably have your checklist of things to do: – Invite all your friends -Stock up on wings, chips, dip and napkins – Fill the fridge with your favorite sodas and brews – Make sure the cable bill is paid in full – Decorate den in your team’s colors. – Defriend your Facebook friends who are supporting the opposing team for the weekend. – Make sure your Bible is prominently displayed on... Read more

2013-01-29T15:03:34+00:00

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The Making of Myth

Last updated on: January 29, 2013 at 3:03 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

We are sorting through Mama’s things. Sweaters and shoes. Glassware and gardening books. Microwave and toaster oven. Bedside table and table top TV. The Singer sewing machine that she used to make Easter dresses, and quilts so heavy they would make an Eskimo sweat. There isn’t a ton household of items to go through. She’d shed herself of the big house items a few years back when she moved in with my brother and his family. Mama’s life got smaller and... Read more

2013-01-27T15:48:27+00:00

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Headed to Africa

Last updated on: January 27, 2013 at 3:48 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

When our kids were still all in elementary school, we hosted two young boys from the African Children’s Choir. We would go on to host many others throughout our young children’s raising — a scientist from Egypt, a student from Palestine — but it was those two young boys from Africa that our youngest daughter remembered best. She couldn’t have been more than six or seven when the boys came to stay, but from that moment on Konnie had... Read more

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