FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) - The prayer beads project started when Connie Phillips saw an advertisement and got an idea. Now the United Methodist Women - Mary Hannah Circle at St. Paul United Methodist ...

Helen Brandenburg turns thin wire into angels and beads into jewelry that bring her closer to God. A member of Catoctin Episcopal Parish, Brandenburg and her church's rector, the Rev. Sally Joyner ...

St. John's Lutheran Church members prayed their hands would become "instruments of love," able to turn beads and wire into a connection with the divine. Then they started crafting. Each Tuesday, a ...

Several years ago a friend, knowing I worked in beads, asked me to create three sets of Episcopal prayer beads for a class she was teaching. Four billion people -- over half the world's population of ...

For over a thousand years people of faith have used a variety of methods to keep track of their prayers. Whether knots in a rope, stones in a pouch, or beads on a string, the simple movement of one’s ...

I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...

Walk into many a meditation or yoga studio here in Los Angeles and beyond and you’ll see a treasure-trove of malas, made from all variety of gemstones and crystals. At heart, these prayer beads are a ...