Listening In

A conversation with Kara Tippetts


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Today, on the two-year anniversary of the death of Kara Tippetts, we look back on a conversation Warren Smith had with her just months before she died. Kara and her husband Jason had four beautiful children and a thriving new church that Jason started and serves as pastor. But soon after moving to Colorado Springs to start that church, Kara discovered she had breast cancer. Despite aggressive treatment, cancer spread throughout her body. Kara described herself as a terrible sick person. She hated being sick, so it might have been easy for her to retreat into self-pity. Instead, she started blogging about her experiences with a remarkable transparency that immediately won her readers. A publisher discovered the blog, and the result is her first book "The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in The Midst of Life's Hard."
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