Editor’s Note: Karen Spears Zacharias is the author of After the Flag has been Folded, serves on the national advisory board for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and blogs at Patheos.com. By Karen Spears Zacharias, Special to CNN The news that Osama bin Laden is dead sent throngs of Americans into the streets hooting and hollering like Super Bowl revelers. Such [...]
Prayers for the Southland
April 29, 2011 By 11 Comments
I lived through one tornado. It was the summer of 1977. I was working as a summer missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention. When I applied for the position they asked me for my first choice for service, and being a homesick Georgia girl, I put down Atlanta. I got my 3rd choice — the Midwest. Gary. Portage. Michigan [...]
A Bubba story
March 28, 2011 By 9 Comments
You know him, don’t you? That man at church, the one who drives the Mercedes SUV, or maybe one of those pricey new hybrids. He ‘s generous to a fault, always writing the biggest checks for whatever is needed — be it a new building or several scholarships to church camp. He’s the one preacher calls [...]
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