As the daily news gets worse and worse, I keep thinking back to the hopefulness of the inauguration, especially to the beautiful prayers of Rev. Gene Robinson, Rev. Rick Warren and Rev. Joseph Lowery. I have also been inspired and comforted by the prayers of Jewish, Hindu and other Christian leaders who wrote inaugural prayers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘prayer beads’
Inauguration Prayers
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Anne Graham Lotz, Brad Hirschfield, Catholic rosary, Gene Robinson, inaugural prayers, Joseph Lowery, prayer beads, Rajan Zed, Rick Warren, Samuel Rodriguez on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Faith and Leadership – Spiritual Practices
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dorothy Bass, Elisabeth Koenig, Faith and Leadership, Jim Wallis, prayer beads, Richard Land, spiritual practice, Tony Campolo on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the many excuses – I MEAN REASONS – I have for not blogging as much as I would like to is now up and running at Faith and Leadership, a new online magazine published by Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. I contributed an article about the spiritual practices of several Christian leaders [...]
Bead Boutique Rosaries
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged prayer beads, rosary on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hope you have noticed that one of the lists I keep on the right side of this blog is of local bead stores in the U.S. that offer classes in rosary and/or prayer bead making. I was updating the list about a week ago – sadly, two or three stores had not only stopped [...]
Winter Solstice Prayers
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, Prayers For Beads, Uncategorized, tagged prayer beads, Wicca on December 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today is the winter solstice – the shortest day (and longest night) of the year. I have been thinking a lot about light and dark in the last couple of months. I think the doom and gloom of the general news – the continuing wars, the sinking economy, the bombings in Mumbai, the layoffs of [...]
Take Your Prayer Beads – Any Prayer Beads – With You
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged prayer beads on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was a great article in Friday’s New York Times’ Escapes section on people going to Hindu ashrams and Buddhist monasteries to take a break from their bust lives. That in itself is not a new story. What is new – and fascinating – is that vacancy is way down at these places because people [...]
A Buddhist’s Prayer Bead Practice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged " mala, Buddhism, prayer beads on December 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week, after my post about how blue I was feeling around Thanksgiving, I received the following delightful comment from a reader named Rod who lives in Alabama: Firstly, may your blues rise unto the sky and provide the landscape for the clouds to live. Secondly, thanks for sharing such a wonderful prayer. Thirdly, Thank [...]
Prayer Beader Sharon Renick
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged prayer beads on November 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Got this fabulous message from Sharon Renick, a prayer beader who lives in Trinidad, Texas, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas. I wanted to share it with you because it illustrates the serendipity of faith, the value of spiritual practices like prayer beads, and the power of taking control of your own prayer life and [...]
Pandit’s Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, Prayer Beads of the World, tagged Hinduism, japa mala, prayer beads on September 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Several months ago, I posted a link here to a great radio story I heard on National Public Radio about Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, a 36-year-old Hare Krishna monk and Hindu chaplain at Columbia University. I loved the story, which was kind of a day-in-the-life feature, and was thrilled when a photo accompanying the story showed [...]
Seattle Wrap-Up
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged prayer beads on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I are back from our trip and preparing to go to work tomorrow. Yuck. But before I get back to writing about the growth of American Judaism and what’s new on the animal spirituality front, I have a few last prayer bead-related things to say about Seattle. The first day I was [...]
45 Pines
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer beads on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Riley, publicist extraordinaire at Morehouse, sent me a link this morning to a blog called 45 Pines with an entry called “Praying with Stones.” It seems that the writer, named Tanya, found a copy of Bead One, Pray Too at her local library (YEA! LIBRARIES!) and came home and was inspired to make an [...]
