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Kari Cope

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Born
in Los Angeles, The United States
August 05

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Member Since
March 2015


Kari Cope is called to Christian discipleship as a teacher, coach, and writer. She has taught Advanced Placement English Literature, Spanish, and Bible for over 20 years and has coached high school and middle school boys and girls soccer.

Kari holds an M.A. in English literature from the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA and an M.A. in Christian Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC. As a lover of both literature and theology, she enjoys applying the tools of literary analysis to the books of varied literature found in the Bible.

In her role as teacher and mentor she has especially enjoyed the opportunity to learn with and from her students and to prompt them to think about questions of meaning and purp
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“The circuitous paths that our lives seemingly take never catch God by surprise. He sees us. He is with us. Again, the Israelites’ wilderness experience demonstrates that it is seeing Him rightly, and recognizing that we are seen by Him, that saves us from ourselves and our circumstances.”
Kari Cope, There's Always Water in the Wilderness: A Close Look at the Biblical Motifs of Wells and Wildernesses

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The circuitous paths that our lives seemingly take never catch God by surprise. He sees us. He is with us. Again, the Israelites’ wilderness experience demonstrates that it is seeing Him rightly, and recognizing that we are seen by Him, that saves us from ourselves and our circumstances.”
Kari Cope, There's Always Water in the Wilderness: A Close Look at the Biblical Motifs of Wells and Wildernesses

“What can we do that makes us gladdest, what can we do that leaves us with the strongest sense of sailing true north and of peace, which is much of what gladness is? Is it making things with our hands out of wood or stone or paint on canvas? Or is it making something we hope like truth out of words? Or is it making people laugh or weep in a way that cleanses their spirit? I believe that if it is a thing that makes us truly glad, then it is a good thing and it is our thing and it is the calling voice that we were made to answer with our lives.”
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

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