by Sybil Macbeth | Jul 11, 2018 | Praying in Color
I was three or four years old when I met my first set of prayer beads. The buff-colored rosary beads coiled cobra-like on the nightstand of my best friend and next door playmate Marian. In the daytime the plastic rosary was not much to look at: a string of plain...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 6, 2017 | Praying in Color
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany is about light. It is about the news of Jesus, the Christ, shining beyond the boundaries of a tiny town in a tiny country. Many theologians think Epiphany is the most important time of the church year and deserves more than...
by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 28, 2016 | Praying in Color
I grew up in the 1950’s in an almost-middle-class neighborhood of two-story asphalt-shingled cottages and bungalows. Many families on the street had at least five kids. My strongly Protestant family only had two kids—just my older brother and me. My parents slept in...
