Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, Episcopal prayer beads, Episcopal rosary on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
In my last post, I showed you how I made a set of prayer beads suitable for brides. Now we move on to the prayers.
As I said in the previous post, I used the Anglican rosary form to create these bridal prayer beads, but I was inspired to add three beads on the stem, between [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bead for Life, prayer beads on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Know what I was doing a week ago today? I was hosting my Bead for Life party! I wrote about how I found out about Bead for Life, and how I made a set of prayer beads from some of their loose beads in this post.
I cannot tell you how easy and fun this party [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pew Forum, prayer, ReligionLink, U.S. Religious Landscape Survey on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the second part of its U.S. Religious Landscape Study today, a broad survey of the way we Americans think about and live out our various faiths, including those who profess no faith.
I am a national correspondent for ReligionLink, and as such, was given an advance copy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the last post I will write on my son’s Shawn’s graduation. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PRAYER BEADS, but is for my friends and family. So, if you want to read about prayer beads, skip this post.
We woke up this morning all excited and ready to go. A quick breakfast and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This post will depart from the usual subject of this blog - prayer beads - and chronicle the night before my eldest son’s graduation. So if you are friends and family, keep reading. If not, you’re welcome to read, but there ain’t nothin’ about prayer beads in here. Tune in tomorrow night, as I have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged pagan prayer beads on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
S.L. Mehegan of upstate New York wrote the following review of Bead One, Pray Too on amazon.com:
“The information in this book is quite good, but it lacks pictures and examples of different prayer beads. I also felt there could have been more information on Pagan beading and examples of prayers.”
I can’t agree with her on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged rosary on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just wanted to make sure you all saw this brief piece in the New York Times on Sunday. It describes the experience of a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel who saw Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and placed a rosary in the candidate’s hands. I just thought it was a very nice way to remember the event [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo, prayer beads, prayer books, Stephanie Pearl McPhee, Yarn Harlot on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the long day – the big book slog. We have to be at Book Expo early (for us) and my Publishers Weekly editor, Lynn Garrett, has a day of meetings before moderating a 4 p.m. panel on the changing world of American evangelicalism. I’ll blog separately about that panel later.
I got to the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo, prayer beads on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Going on all the time here are Book Expo Educational Programs, panels and talks for booksellers and publishers on a variety of ways to sell books better and sell better books. I am in one right now called “Steal This Book: Selling and Promoting Literature on the Edge.” I came because I thought I might [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thursday Morning, Oakland International Airport
For the next few days – Thursday through Sunday – I will be attending Book Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. I am going with Publishers Weekly, for whom I frequently write, and will try and pick up and write several stories for them from the floor show.
But I will also be [...]
