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Friday 03/19/10 7pm-8pm Karen Zacharias discusses Will Jesus Buy Me A Double-Wide?: Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV    What does it really mean to be blessed by God? With Southern charm and razor-sharp wit author Karen Spears Zacharias shows how the "prosperity" gospel has led us astray from true Christianity and helped create people and churches focused on greed. Zacharias unpacks story after story of families and individuals using the name of God as a means to living their own "good life." Discover churches that have modeled themselves on Wall Street and unbridled materialism, and see what is happening to them now. Is this the good life? You'll also meet some unlikely folks who live with genuine biblical integrity.  After her father died in the Vietnam War, Karen Spears Zacharias moved into a single-wide trailer with her mother, ailing grandfather and two siblings. Her family moved that trailer five times in six years. Corner lots in the trailer parks were the most coveted because they usually had the biggest yards. The very rich lived in double-wides. Zacharias is a former editorial writer and columnist for the Fayetteville Observer in Fayetteville, N.C.  She is a contributing writer to the Burnside Writers Collective, an online magazine started by author Donald Miller as a home for young, progressive Christian writers and thinkers to share their ideas.  Zacharias served as an adjunct professor of journalism at Central Washington University and as an author-in-resident for the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama.  She is author of Where's Your Jesus Now? and the nationally-acclaimed After the Flag Has Been Folded.  A 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. One of the chapters of the book -- The Marine – is based on a Raleigh resident and the ministry that I highlight in the book and to which some of the proceeds go is Love Wins, a Raleigh ministry. Here's an article from NewsOK/The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City where Karen is passing through on her book tour: http://www.newsok.com/seeing-want-in-prosperity-gospel/article/3444157?custom_click=headlines_widget