Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged All Saints Episcopal Church, Episcopal prayer beads, prayer for beads on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Sunday morning, before my husband and I piled our son’s undergraduate detritus in our van and headed home from Pasadena, I stopped into All Saints Episcopal Church for the 9 a.m. worship service. I took with me my set of Episcopal prayer beads that I made at the Sea Ranch - the ones made [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged National Day of Prayer, Pearls of Life, prayer beads, rosary, Yom Hashoah on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Today is both Yom Hashoah, the day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, we well as the 56th celebration of the annual National Day of Prayer, a holiday created by Congress in 1952. I have never marked the National Day of Prayer before partly because it seemed somehow artificial to pray because Congress [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Episcopal rosary, prayer beads, silence on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
This week, I have been thinking a lot about silence. It has been a week split between long days at home alone with my dog, Bella, and the computer and a weekend of raucus fun with girlfriends at a knitting convention that attracted thousands of people. In the first part of the week there was [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is a rainy and cold Tuesday morning here and I find I am filled with a longing for spring. I want more than anything else to sit in the sun and feel it warm my bones. Still, it seems an appropriate landscape for Lent as I look out my window – gray skies, gray [...]
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 [...]
