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	<title>Karen Spears Zacharias</title>
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		<title>Dead Boy&#8217;s Devoted Daddy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/07/04/the-dead-boys-devoted-daddy/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 01:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This will be my last post on Patheos. I am grateful for the opportunity provided but I feel that my readers will be better served at an ad-free site. Please make note of the new blog address: karenzach.com  I hope you will join me there. Thank you for all your years of engagement. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Urban Intellect talks Comedy: Jelani Greenidge</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/06/26/urban-intellect-talks-comedy-jelani-greenidge/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I knew of Jelani Greenidge long before I met him. We were friends in Social Media, drawn together by faith and community. So imagine my delight at the Faith and Culture Conference when Jelani and I finally had a chance to connect in real time. “Aren’t you Karen?” he asked. I don’t know how he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Holiness of a Place</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/06/24/the-holiness-of-a-place/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cherokee Lake]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can you see the holiness of a place beyond the “No Trespass” sign? That moment  when you knew the things unknown even to the “Video Surveillance”? Bowed your heart                         in silent gratitude because words                     [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Appearances: Bristol, Johnson City, &#038; Knoxville</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/06/18/appearances-bristol-johnson-city-knoxville/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arts in the Gap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weatherford Award for best in Appalachian Fiction]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I am on the road this week. I have a couple of book events lined up in Tennessee. If you are around for either of them, I’d love to see you. Come on out. Bring your friends. Tell your librarians &#38; book clubs. Author Signing Jun 22, 2014 2:00 PM Barnes &#38; Noble Booksellers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Problem with Evil</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/06/11/the-problem-with-evil/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been intentionally silent.  Instead of blogging, I have spent time listening to the ramblings  of Elliot Rodger. I watched the news reports of Richard Martinez grieving for his beautiful son, Christopher, one of Rodger’s victims. Mostly I have sat in silence and grieved for the dead and the families they left behind. Those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Soul Void</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 01:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s get something clear, okay? Hatred is not a mental illness. It is a soul rotted. A soul void of kindness gentleness goodness thoughtfulness empathy A lot of mentally ill folks are good and kind, gentle and thoughtful. Not all, mind you, but most mentally ill folks don’t go around killing people. All of these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Elliot Rodger&#8217;s Right</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/05/29/elliot-rodgers-right/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I have been sitting here in silence. Silence broken by birds chirping, dogs barking and this loud bursting of fireworks going off in my head. Behind the veil of gray matter, beauty and terror reside, a couple at cross-hairs. One chillingly silent in the presence of the other’s fevered shouting. I was only away [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Do Something Sacred</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/05/22/do-something-sacred/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 15:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  When I went to Vietnam the one thing that disturbed me was the way the Vietnamese exploited their own children for the sake of a dollar. I encountered girls as young as 7 or 8 out on the streets of Saigon (nobody but the press calls it Ho Chi Minh City. HCMC  is a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Summers at Christian Bend, TN</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 05:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[         Wild dogwoods were in bloom when Mama’s Aunt Cil died in spring 1968, and it nearly broke her heart. Aunt Cil was her last physical connection to her mama, Granny Ruth, and with those two matriarchs gone, Mama’s world just crumbled around her. Frank, Linda and I had spent a good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Soldier&#8217;s Funeral</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/karenspearszacharias/2014/05/21/a-soldiers-funeral/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Spears Zacharias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    The funeral service was held Wednesday morning, August 3, 1966, at McCloud Baptist Church. Mama was up at daybreak. I don’t think she’d slept at all the night before. I could hear her trying to move quietly around the trailer, so as not to wake any of us. Shortly before the sun scrubbed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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