Author: Karen Spears Zacharias

Jesus was a colored man

Jesus was a colored man. Jesus dressed like the homeless man he was, the same clothes, day after day. Jesus didn't shave, or have his beard professionally maintained, it grew willy-nilly, everywhichaway. Jesus wore his hair in dregs. Jesus smelled of the sweat of the[..]
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12 04 , 2021 No Comments
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The Half Enlightened

Every time I hear somebody say "I'm not getting the vaccine because I don't trust it or I don't need it," I think of my father-in-law who was crippled from polio at age 3, and underwent a dozen operations during his childhood, and years of[..]
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08 04 , 2021 2 Comments
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The Conviction of Covenanters & Anti-Vaxxers

It's not even 8 a.m. on the West Coast as I type this and already this day has started off with several deep conversations. The first was with a daughter dealing with the aftermath of her 2nd Covid shot. A bit of a headache and[..]
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02 04 , 2021 2 Comments
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LeBron & Brady: A Legacy Brand

As you might guess from this consistently pillowy physique of mine, I'm less of a participant of sports than a watcher. But it would be wrong to even put me in the looky-see category. Given a choice between watching a football game or[..]
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12 03 , 2021 1 Comment
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The Ambassador of Goodwill

[caption id="attachment_5706" align="aligncenter" width="345"] Ned & me in Portland following a surgery he had undergone a few years back.[/caption] We met on plane somewhere over the Pacific. Or maybe it was the South China Sea. I don't know for sure, given it was pitch dark[..]
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05 03 , 2021 4 Comments
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We Are All Trans to God

I don't actually know her but I met her father a long time ago, back when she was his son. Nobody is born into the world hoping for a difficult life. No kid growing up ever wants to be shunned, disowned by their own family.[..]
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28 02 , 2021 6 Comments
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The Old People’s Virus

Whenever I read a story about populations, no matter what the story is, I want to know the specifics of the demographics of the story. So on the day when we surpassed the 500,000 mark of deaths due to Covid, I wondered if there was[..]
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23 02 , 2021 5 Comments
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The Faith of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Hemingway took me out for a walk this morning. The sun was up and while not really warm, it was at least bright. We walked the Dry Canyon, a walk that we don't often do because it's usually crowded. But we took the southernmost[..]
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21 02 , 2021 117 Comments
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is Nobody’s Fool

Let's fix a myth: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not from the North Georgia District she won in. I lived in Rome, Georgia. I went to school there. It's a lovely place full of kind-hearted mountain folks and some brilliant minds, and a wonderful college -[..]
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04 02 , 2021 8 Comments
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