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 [...]
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Last time we explored a single form of prayer beads, we looked at those used by Baha’is. Really, no rhyme or reason here - I just feel like exploring the Pearls of Life next.
The Pearls of Life - sometimes called The Wreath of Life - are one of the newer forms of prayer beads. They [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pearls of Life on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been happily busy the last two weeks with my freelance work and some of it has really paid off - if not in $$$ then in notoriety. On Monday, a story I wrote for Religion News Service on the history of the religious polygamists in Texas ran in USAToday and about a [...]
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A couple of nights ago, “Deborah J.” left a wonderful comment on my posting about Baha’i prayer beads in which she mentioned becoming inspired by Bead One, Pray Too to make a set of “healing beads” for a friend. I emailed Deborah back and asked if she would share a picture and a description of [...]
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Praying With Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year
By Nan Lewis Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens
Eerdmans Publishing, 2007
81 pages,
This slim book is like a prayer bead breviary – a short, concise guide to praying with the Anglican rosary on a daily basis. The book concerns itself solely with the Anglican rosary, with the bulk of [...]
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Every major world religion has some tradition of counted prayer. And in all of these religions save one, these prayers are counted on beads. For Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants, prayer beads form a link between these diverse faiths and varied cultures.
My name is Kimberly Winston and I am a freelance religion reporter and [...]
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