614: The HBI eZine just published its February issue and one of the articles is titled “Praying for a Spouse.” It is about a just-published book, The Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book, by Aliza Lavie, which features more than 100 years of Jewish prayers written by and for women. (Full disclosure – I have written for [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Prayers by and for Jewish Women
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Religion in Obama’s Inaugural Address
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil religion, Jon Pahl, spirituality of work on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am still resonating from the events of yesterday and still struck by how much religion and spirituality permeated the day. I came across this excellent essay outlining the religious imagery and references in the speech and placing them within the context of America’s long history of civil religion. The essay is by Jon Pahl, [...]
Joseph Lowery’s Benediction Prayer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged benediction, inauguration, Joseph Lowery on January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my last post, I posed the question about the appropriateness of the content of Rick Warren’s invocation. Now we come to the benediction of Joseph Lowery, United Methodist pastor. You can read the entire text here.
I found myself laughing through my tears at this lovely prayer. The tears came the minute I recognized his [...]
Rick Warren’s Inaugural Prayer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inaugural prayer, inauguration, invocation, Rick Warren on January 20, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I was holding my breath when Rev. Rick Warren took the podium at Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremony today. I was waiting to see if the sometimes divisive evangelical Southern Baptist pastor of Saddleback Church would pray in the name of one religion or all religions.
As a religion reporter, I officially have no opinion on Warren. [...]
Cool Christian Prayer Site
Posted in Prayers For Beads on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buzzin’ around on the website of Calvin College (that’s namesake John Calvin at left) for a phone number of someone I need to interview, I found their prayer pages, complete with student questions (very sweet and heartbreaking, a few of them), and a compilation of what the Bible says about prayer. Particularly helpful to the [...]
Baha’i Prayer Beads and the Catholic Rosary – One User’s Perspective
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, Prayer Beads of the World, tagged Baha'i prayer beads, Catholic rosary on January 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Happy New Year all! I am sorry for the long time, no blog. I have been down with flu this whole week and am now behind in work, housework and everything else. Ugh.
A couple of days ago, I received a very nice comment from a man named Larry Gray in response to my much earlier [...]
