Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged prayer beads, World Mala on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Poking around on the internet the other day, I came across a blog called “The Mala Prayer Bead Project.” The blog, which just got started last December, is the work of someone who calls herself Joy Found. According to her profile, Joy is a 38-year-old single mother whose spirituality is a blend of eastern and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged " mala, "Eat Pray Love", Elizabeth Gilbert, prayer on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Maybe I should start a blog called “Behind the Curve” because I am always the last one to read the book everyone else is reading. Partly this is because I have to do a lot of work-related reading (latest requirement: Jim Wallis’s “Great Awakening”) and partly because I am a terrible book snob. I mean, [...]
Posted in Prayers For Beads, tagged prayer on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the great joys of being a journalist is that you get to talk to all sorts of interesting and important people and ask them impertinent questions. Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ron Sider about his forthcoming book, “The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Marltin Luther King Jr. on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day! Is it okay to say “happy” MLK Day? I mean, he was a martyr, so is that really appropriate? I don’t know. But I do know I want to mark the day not just by sleeping in and goofing off, but by really thinking about and remembering this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Phyllis Tickle on January 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about an interview I had with Phyllis Tickle about her forthcoming book “The Words of Jesus,” in which she strips the Gospels and the Book of Acts of narration and context to leave the words of Jesus. Just the words of Jesus. As I said in my previous [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged book review on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Publishers Weekly has given Bead One, Pray Too a starred review, the highest the magazine gives! I am so, so happy! The review will appear in the Jan. 28 issue of the print magazine, but can be viewed here online at the magazine’s religion book newsletter, Religion BookLine.
The review means a lot to me for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Phyllis Tickle on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently interviewed Phyllis Tickle for Publishers Weekly magazine’s online newsletter, Religion BookLine. You can read the brief interview here, and in a future post will include the interview in its entirety.
The subject of the interview is Tickle’s new book, The Words of Jesus, in which she lifts the words of Jesus from the narrative [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged " St. Augustine, depression on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last night, as I was lying in bed reading my book club’s current selection, “What is the What” by Dave Eggers, I came across this passage:
“I have been reading Mother Teresa and Brother Roger’s book called Seeking the Heart of God, and each time I revisit it, I find different passages that seem written for [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Episcopal, Grace Cathedral, labyrinth, prayer beads, rosary on January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Two years ago, my friend Daniela and I decided to head into San Francisco on the Saturday before Christmas to play tourists. It was so much fun we decided to do it again this year.
So on the Saturday before Christmas, we took BART to the city, got off at Powell Street and headed up to [...]
