For all Christians, this time of year is about hope and birth. Looking at the baby in the manger seems to make all things possible. As I look out the window at the cold and the darkness, my heart cries out for some prayers about the warmth and the light. I came up with the [...]
Archive for December, 2007
A Christmas Rosary
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Christmas, nativity, prayer beads on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review – “Praying With Beads”
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Anglican rosary, book review, Catholic rosary, Pearls of Life, prayer beads on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Praying With Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year By Nan Lewis Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 81 pages, This slim book is like a prayer bead breviary – a short, concise guide to praying with the Anglican rosary on a daily basis. The book concerns itself solely with the Anglican [...]
December Depression
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, depression, Julian of Norwich, prayer beads on December 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This morning I woke up with my usual holiday depression. It hits me every December – a general funk brought on by missing my loved ones who have died and others that I am separated from. The alarm went off and I just could not face getting out of bed, so back under the covers [...]
Raven Kaldera, Neo-Pagan Prayer Beads Artisan
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Neo-Paganism, pagan prayer beads, prayer beads on December 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I first met Raven, who is 42, when I was writing a story for Religion News Service about Neo-Pagans who use prayer beads and rosaries as part of their practice. The story eventually ran in the Washington Post and on Beliefnet.com. Raven has been making and selling Pagan prayer beads of many stripes for about [...]
Motel Rosary
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary on December 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a new one on me! I was googling around and through some odd combination of search terms, I can across the website of someone named Karen who makes many different forms of prayer beads, including ( drum roll please . . . .) a “motel rosary.” According to her website, Karen was driving [...]
