Got this in my email inbox this morning. Good Lord. What would $3.95 a month buy a starving kid in Africa? More later. I have a class this morning and will return and see what you all think about this.
Posts Tagged ‘prayer’
“Pay to Pray?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged prayer on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Colbert and How (Not) To Pray
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jim Martin, prayer, Stephen Colbert on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The first 20 minutes of last night’s “The Colbert Report” was all about religion. Stephen had been selected by a dubious (my opinion) celebrity-focused prayer ministry as the “media leader” the faithful should pray for on the day of the taping, Feb. 23 ,because, in a paraphrase of the ministry’s press release, prayers can influence [...]
Soundings of the Planet
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged music, prayer on August 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Do any of you listen to music when you meditate or pray – with or without prayer beads? I usually require silence, but at the last Book Expo, I came across Allegro Media Group‘s booth, where some very nice people from NewSound Music were offering CDs of world music that has a spiritual bent. Once [...]
Praying in Seattle
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, St. James Cathedral on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My husband and I are visiting Seattle this week – he for a conference and me for the free hotel room. So while he confers, I bop around the city looking for bead stores, places to pray with beads and great yarn stores. Oh, then there’s the eating. There are way too many good bakeries [...]
U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pew Forum, prayer, ReligionLink, U.S. Religious Landscape Survey on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Praying at the Sea Ranch
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, prayer beads, Sea Ranch on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some [...]
Are We Wired for Religious Experience?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brain, neuroscience, prayer on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hope you all saw David Brooks’ most recent column in May 13th’s New York Times. I was pleased to see him recommend the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, who I had the pleasure of interviewing once for a story I wrote for USA Today about speaking in tongues. In his [...]
He Stinks at Prayer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged prayer, prayer beads on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If the pastor of a huge megachurch can admit he stinks at prayer, I feel better about knowing that I have prayer issues, too. For me, prayer is work – worthwhile, valuable work that usually brings me a sense of peace and calmness – but work, nonetheless. That’s why I picked up prayer beads – [...]
“Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged " mala, "Eat Pray Love", Elizabeth Gilbert, prayer on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Maybe I should start a blog called “Behind the Curve” because I am always the last one to read the book everyone else is reading. Partly this is because I have to do a lot of work-related reading (latest requirement: Jim Wallis‘s “Great Awakening”) and partly because I am a terrible book snob. I mean, [...]
Ron Sider’s Prayer
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 [...]
