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Karen Spears Zacharias, like other writers, can\u2019t write without it becoming memoir-ish and personal and personally divulging. So, in Where\u2019s Your Jesus Now?<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>, she doesn\u2019t just talk about fear; she reveals her own fears.
\nI wonder if pastors deal much with fear in the congregation? How do parents deal with fear in their children?
\nFears of flying \u2014 the chp is hilarious too, fears about public toilets, fears about all kinds of things.
\nShe\u2019s learned about God \u2014 that God loves us, that we can come to God, that God listens. That God is not out to get us, that some folks \u2014 like the father she tells about who thought his daughter\u2019s near-death when she walked in front of a train was God\u2019s way of getting his daughter\u2019s attention \u2014 are sadly mistaken about what God is like.
\nShe finishes off a chp with these words, words born of the learning that comes after one has learned to cease wringing one\u2019s hands:
\n\u201cI only know that when I pray, God hears me. My doubts. My fears. My cries for help. My gratitude. My songs of praise. And even the most inaudible, inarticulate of prayers, he hears. And never once has he said to me, there\u2019s no room for your doubts. Nor has he ever suggested that I ought to go about claiming stake to anything \u2014 health or money or big screen TVs. The gifts he gives are given out of his good pleasure, not because of who we are, what we believe, what we claim. If there is anything I know for sure about God, it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t barter in Green Stamps\u201d (79).
\nTheology emerging from experience is a theology that takes on reality.
\nI think it is Karen\u2019s experience with Christians, with those who suffer, with her own past, with her family \u2026 all rolled up into one \u2026 that leads her to give an ear-full to Anne Coulter. She calls her the grand poobah.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"