Posts Tagged ‘Karen Spears Zacharias’

The Kids in America

Rob Bell. Mark Driscoll. Don Miller. Rachel Held Evans. These are just a few of the names of those who’ve been the direct targets of what author Karen Spears Zacharias described as ‘internet gang rape’. (Editor’s Note: It should mentioned Karen was also victim of this phenomenon.) In the...

August 18th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Karen Spears Zacharias, CNN, and the Internet Wringer

A month and a half ago, a friend sent me a .pdf of Go the F**k to Sleep. I thought it was fairly funny because it conveyed the universal frustrations of parents in a delightfully inappropriate manner. I didn’t think it was particularly innovative, since McSweeney’s Baby Be of Use series...

June 28th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Of Jesus, the Chattahoochee, and Taxi Driver

Jesus was dipped by John in the Chattahoochee. That’s how Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospels share the story of Jesus’ baptism. I wish I knew Alan Jackson. I would’ve asked him to come over to church and read Scripture. Imagine – Alan Jackson, who sings about the Chattahoochee,...

March 25th, 2011 | Arts, Film | Read More

Will Jesus Buy Me A Double Wide? (and other questions for author Karen Spears Zacharias)

Karen Spears Zacharias has a thing for trailers. She grew up, found Jesus, fell in love, and even delivered her first child in a trailer. She recently published her fourth book, Will Jesus Buy Me A Double Wide?, and took time out of her busy book tour schedule to answer that question and share her...

March 11th, 2010 | Burnside Sells Out, Featured | Read More

Stuff White Christians Like

Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s the result of having grown up in a region of the country where even my granny would pull back the curtain with her cane and comment,”There goes those (insert N-word) again.” Poor white folks made it their business to mind what the poor black folks...

June 17th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

My Three Virgins

I raised three girls who are hip, stylish, smart, engaging, sexy and virginal. Okay. Well, that’s not exactly true. Ashley is married so she no longer fits the classification but up until she took that oath of allegiance to the man of her choosing, she had remained abstinent. Constance, the youngest...

June 14th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

A Hearty Welcome

It’s been an eventful week here on the blog! First, I made some people angry, as I am wont to do. Then John Pattison wondered how to rebuke the largest Christian publishing company in the world. Then a magazine edited by Bill Kristol mentioned us and claimed Donald Miller traveled three hours...

June 5th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Computer Hell

I confess. I’m hard on laptops. Call it hazards of the job. I’m an author by day and a blogger by night. On average I spend anywhere from 8 to 12 hours typing and/or researching. On some projects, I’ve been known to spend up to 15 hours with the trustworthy hardware that portends it’s my brain. One...

June 5th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Sexting: To Porn or Not to Porn

Before I climb up on that high horse of mine, let me come clean. Yes. I played Spin-the-Bottle as a young girl. It was a routine summer activity on Friday and Saturday nights in the trailer park where I grew up. Kids would gather at the deep end of the swimming pool during the noon-day heat but once...

June 4th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

The Risen Christ

(Guest post by Karen Spears Zacharias) I’ll admit to treading in deep waters, into matters way over my head. To be quite honest, that usually occurs for me before I reach the edge of the four-foot section of the pool. But this Easter Season has me pondering this matter of Christ Risen. Having...

April 12th, 2009 | Blog | Read More