Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, tagged Baha'i, prayer beads, religion on March 27, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I feel like starting with Baha’is and their prayer beads. Why? Don’t know. Not the oldest religion or the oldest prayer beads. Not the newest, either. Maybe I just feel like going alphabetically. No, I think I saw a picture of a set of Baha’i prayer beads as I was web-surfing the other day and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged customer review on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t know Sarah “mawkinberd” of Ruston, La, but if any of you do, please give her a big kiss for me! Here’s her review.
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged book review on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Holy Moley!!!! LBRLucas of San Diego gave Bead One, Pray Too a five-star review on amazon.com, in the book’s first amazon customer review. I am just overwhelmed at her reaction to the book. Thank you so much Louise!!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrea Useem, prayer beads on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was so surprised today when my subscription to Andrea Useem’s wide-ranging and thorough religion blog, Religionwriter.com, came into my mailbox today and right there in the first sentence I saw my name, a link to this blog and my website. Thank you, Andrea!
It’s two days after Easter and I assume many of us [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Catholic rosary, prayer beads, Protestant rosary, sacraments on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Saturday night I attended the Easter Vigil service at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church in El Cerrito, Calif. to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic. Carolyn, who is in her sixties (I hope she won’t mind my saying that!) decided sometime in the last year that she wanted to become a member of the church [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Catholic rosary, Good Friday, Phyllis Tickle, prayer beads on March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How I would love to go and sit in a church or other place of sanctuary and meditation today and work my prayer beads. Good Friday has always been one of my favorite days in the church calendar. Is that weird? It is such a somber day. I think it is among my favorites because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Good Friday, Maundy Thursday on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s Maundy Thursday. I had planned a whole week of special Holy Week prayers for prayer beads. But I am down with the creeping crud that seems to have hold of most of the SF Bay Area. I went to the doc yesterday and she said I have the beginnings of pneumonia in the lower [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged labyrinth, prayer beads, tree of life on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
On Monday I received an email query via Morehouse, my publisher, saying that a customer who had bought the book had called the company to ask a question - where did I get the terminal charms pictured on the cover of the book?
Wanting to reward such ingenuity (how did she find the phone number? Is [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Breastplate on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I hope none of you are so far into your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations that you don’t have the energy to do a little prayer bead session with my favorite saint! You shouldn’t be too far gone - it’s only 2:30 p.m. here in California - but I realize that’s Happy Hour time in NYC, [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, John McQuiston, panentheism, prayer beads on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For this last week before Holy Week, I had planned to compile some prayers for prayer beads on the theme of hunger and loneliness. That’s kind of what I have been feeling lately, as winter sits - and sits and sits. But then the sun came out and I thought, that would be a bummer! [...]
