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2012-12-20T15:06:12+00:00

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I wish the Mayans were right

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 3:06 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

For the past four months it has felt like somebody pushed my head underwater into the pool of grief and is holding it there, attempting to drown me. I can’t come up from air until the one thing I don’t want to happen — my mother’s death — happens. Then came the massacre at Newtown. I can’t quit thinking about those babies and their families. Underwater, all I can hear are the horrific wails of the men and women whose babies... Read more

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A Temple of the Holy Ghost

2012-12-19T06:48:33+00:00

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Friday changed everything

Last updated on: December 19, 2012 at 6:48 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

This gun issue is President Obama’s Lincoln moment. We are a nation divided … How Obama responds as a leader of this nation to Friday’s massacre will be written about in the history books for generations to come. Will he rise above the fray of politics and turn the tide of violence that is costing our children their very lives? The welfare of our children ought to be the thing that draws us together as a nation. It should... Read more

2012-12-18T16:10:46+00:00

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Shaming God: Embarrassing Evangelicals

Last updated on: December 18, 2012 at 4:10 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Sometimes it is downright embarrassing to be an evangelical. Oh, I’m not the least bit afraid to speak the name of Jesus, or to tell others that I’m a person of faith. What shames me is that in claiming the name of Jesus I immediately become associated with some of the most judgmental people: Evangelicals in the hands of an angry God. People like Fred Phelps and his Westboro clan. Or James Dobson, who said the Newtown, CT., massacre is the... Read more

2012-12-17T16:44:50+00:00

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What Answer Will You Be?

Last updated on: December 17, 2012 at 4:44 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

C. S. Lewis — The Problem of Pain God is both further from us, and nearer to us than any other being… The intimacy between God and even the meanest creature is closer than any that creatures can attain with one another. Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him Who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in... Read more

2012-12-16T04:08:18+00:00

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A Prayer for the Fallen

Last updated on: December 16, 2012 at 4:08 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

Merton’s Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in... Read more

2012-12-16T20:34:20+00:00

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The Evil at Sandy Hook

Last updated on: December 16, 2012 at 8:34 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who mentioned evil as the root source of Friday’s mass murder at an elementary school in Newtown. At first glance it would certainly seem to be an accurate statement. Only the most demonic would open fire on a classroom full of children. Gloating and standing in front of those sweet-faced and surely terrified children and pull the trigger on not one but two semiautomatic handguns. Without... Read more

Sandy Hook Elementary

2012-12-14T08:43:04+00:00

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Heaven on Parkchester Drive

Last updated on: December 14, 2012 at 8:43 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

There are stacks of books on my mother’s dressers, piles of books on her bedside table, and another stash of books inside the pouch of her walker-on-wheels. The trouble is she can’t read any of the books — the brain tumors have robbed her of one of her greatest enjoyments — reading. So the reading of those books falls to us, her caretakers. As you might suspect, reading to others is something that comes quite naturally to me, the writer. I... Read more

The Shawshank Redemption

2012-12-10T20:58:30+00:00

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When I lay dying, read me Flannery

Last updated on: December 10, 2012 at 8:58 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people who have visited there. I don’t want to hear their same-song tales of being blinded by the light or lulled into a peace beyond any which they have ever known before. Read to me instead the stories from Flannery. Tell me of strange men and strong women. “If you think I need spiritual aid to die you’re quite mistaken.” Do not attempt to entertain me with the mundane... Read more

2012-12-15T08:33:05+00:00

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Suicide & the Code of Silence

Last updated on: December 15, 2012 at 8:33 am By Karen Spears Zacharias

“Nobody commits suicide because they want to die – They just want to stop the pain.” The tow-headed toddler running down the church aisle tripped and fell over onto his tummy. He paused a moment before getting up, looking around to see if anyone was going to come to his aide, or perhaps he was checking to see if anyone would scold him for behaving so childlike. Although many eyes were on him, no one moved. “Uh-oh, boo-boo,” he... Read more

Where's Your Jesus Now?

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2012-12-08T16:06:54+00:00

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First Amendment Family

Last updated on: December 8, 2012 at 4:06 pm By Karen Spears Zacharias

Raised up in Seattle, he’d grown up comfortable. Not unaware but at least far removed from the growing up his grandparents experienced. The kind of experiences that made a person of color want to move far, far away from the land of their growing up. You should interview them about all that, I said. Find out what they think of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment. So he did. We look at Syria and shake our heads angrily over the... Read more

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