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SAY WHAT???
"Where's Your Jesus Now? is heartbreaking but also witty, full of compassion but also righteous outrage. It’s a fascinating book." A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically & The Know-It-All.
"Karen Spears Zacharias has fashioned a witty, intelligent and poignant analysis of organized religion today—pungent manna for thought."
Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
"If this writer Karen Spears Zacharias should turn evangelist, the stadium will be full every night." --
Sonny Brewer, author of The Poet of Tolstoy Park. “Karen Spears Zacharias is the evangelical Anne Lamott. Reading her gives you instant commonsense as well as an infallible eye for tommyrot, and she wraps her gifts in humor, sass, spunk, and biblical wisdom. She's golden.”-- Scot McKnight, author of The Jesus Creed, and Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University.
Karen Spears Zacharias is a bold and refreshing voice in American letters. She is unafraid to insult, confront, or cajole, and is as quick to champion the voiceless as she is to challenge the status quo. She is to America what Jeremiah was to ancient Israel, which is to say: a gigantic pain in the ass." -- Janis Owens, author of My Brother Michael & The Schooling of Claybird Catts.
"Poignant, funny and cutting-edge, Where's Your Jesus Now? breaks new ground and knocks fundamentalist thought on its rear."-- Michael Morris, author of A Place Called Wiregrass & Slow Way Home. "Witty, brave and bold, Zacharias dares to ask the tough question for the right reason: to affirm that Jesus is far more than many of his fear-driven followers believe He is. In a world that has cheapened God, this is the right book at the right time. It cuts to the cultural chase like the words of Brennan Manning and Oswald Chambers, challenging us while encouraging us. And Zacharias does so with a humble heart, a discerning pair of eyes, and an engaging style. Where's Your Jesus Now? has the power to change the way we all look at God. This is not only a good book, it's the most important book I've read in years." — Bob Welch, award-winning author, columnist and speaker
"Karen Spears Zacharias craves the Jesus of Hank Williams, Blind Willie Johnson, and William Blake. In essays bristling with doubt and fear, buoyed by flashes of the brightest hope and splashes of the darkest humor, she grants us the privilege of joining her search party. She almost - almost! - has me convinced He's out there somewhere." --
Jack Pendarvis, author of Awesome & Your Body is Changing. “Karen Spears Zacharias has testified! This book is funny, fierce and fearless. My stomach hurts from laughing, and my heart aches from finding the truth.” --
Doug Crandell, author of Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed, & The Flawless Skin of Ugly People.
Be sure to check out Karen's blog before you go.
For Media Inquiries or to arrange an appearance, please contact Karen.Campbell at Zondervan.com
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How is it that those of us who claim to be so firmly founded can be so easily shaken? This compelling look at how fear eclipses faith in frightening times also demonstrates how to confront what you fear most, wrestle with it, and then release it, freeing yourself as well. “Where’s our confidence? Our hope? Is it possible that, in our hyper-vigilance against our enemies, real or perceived, we’ve taken our eyes off of Jesus, our protector and Redeemer?” With tremendous spiritual insight and a rapier wit, Karen Spears Zacharias weaves a compelling narrative of faith versus fear. How is it that those of us who claim to be so firmly founded can be so easily shaken? How do we believe that a God who loves us more than we can comprehend can be willed by us to harm those who do not share our beliefs? As wars rumble and personal conflicts tear at the fabric of our lives, where is our Jesus? Zacharias finds him in a Vietnamese war widow, in a young man decimated by HIV, in the burnt remains of a handmade maternity outfit, and in the strength of a mother with a gun held to her chest. Along the way she offers a profound meditation on the nature of faith, “the evidence of things not yet seen”. God is specific in his intentions toward us, Zacharias says. He came to give us hope. Where’s Your Jesus Now? puts readers back on the path to finding it again.
ABOUT ME
KAREN SPEARS ZACHARIAS was once bit by a big ol’ water moccasin in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamps. She survived, thanks to the prayers of Mrs. Josie Hays and a heaping dose of bleach scrub. Despite that frightful incident, Karen grew up to become a notable journalist/author, mesmerizing speaker, and a midnight-blogger. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She is author of the forthcoming Where's Your Jesus Now? Zondervan, 2008 and the nationally-acclaimed After the Flag has been Folded, HarperCollins, 2006.
An adjunct professor of journalism at Central Washington University, Karen is currently the author-in-resident for the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts.
Karen served as an editorial panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Random House, 2006. Her other works have appeared in Oregon Literary Review and Blue Moon Café Anthology. She is a member of the Authors Guild.
RELIGION / Christian Life / General 0-310-28386-8 978-0-310-28386-7
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