Shana Sureck/The Hartford Courant
Picture corresponds with "Comforting Cloth" article.
Interview with Janet Bristow and
web-talk show host Landon Whitsitt -
www.thephoenixjournal.org -
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 -
Centering
Prayer and Prayer Shawls.
This is an online audio
recording which contains two interviews. The Prayer Shawl segment
Introduction begins at: 28:05 (28 minutes 5 seconds) & Ends:
43:49. Total time: 15 minutes 44 seconds.
Ministries bind knitting, prayer one
stitch at a time
For shawl ministry, comforting others is the craft at hand
By VIVI HOANG, Thursday, 05/10/07 - Tennessean.com
Esther Paris of Rhode Island talks about her involvement
with the PSM - click to launch 7 minute on-line video
Others so blessed by Sew Blessed Ministry
The Times Record - April
2007
By Laurie Doran, Special to Neighbors
Hospice volunteers knit comfort
Shawl ministry program brings solace to patients
By Briana Hovendick - Mile High
News
Group Provides Prayer With A Twist
Channel 5 News - WTVF Nashville, TN - February 2007
Culture Watch - Knit Local, Act
Global
Stitching for Social (and personal) change - February 2007
By Molly Marsh
Knitters see faith intertwine with craft
Across Chicago area, congregations' shawls wrap people
in prayer
By
Deborah Hallman Special to the
Tribune Published January 17, 2007
Wrapping love around those in need
By Kimberly Orsborn, News Staff Writer - Mount Vernon News
September 2006
Submitted by Pastor John Brantley
October 2005
On Prayer Shawls in the wake of Katrina
From
U-C: What I See
By:
Rick Ufford-Chase
September 2005
Comfort shawls: The gift of healing and peace
to patients and families
By: Monique C. Savage, RN, BS
From: Healing Ministry, Volume 12, #3, Summer 2005
BELIEF & PRACTICE:
Shawl Ministry
April 29, 2005 Episode no. 835 - Article and Video Clip
Shawl ministries touch those in need
By Fred Marion - Rocky Mount Telegram - North Carolina
April 2005
Knitting prayers
among the purls
By Edward Orezcchowski - The Republican
- MassLive.com
April 2005
Shawls
knit prayer and healing together
"From Balls of Yarn, Needles and Prayers, a New Ministry" - New York Times
By Katie Zezima - November 13, 2004
Making a Difference - The Shawl Ministry, Contemplative Knitting
Creative Knitting Magazine - Fall 2004
By: Edie Eckman
"Untangling The Yarn" - Body and Soul Magazine
By Ann Hood - October 2004
"Healing Hands" - Vogue/Family Circle Easy Knitting Magazine
By Leslie Petrovski - Fall 2004
"Hands-on
Spirituality" - www.beliefnet.com
By Kimberly Winston - Summer 2004
"Mantles Of Love - Spiritual Development"
By: Janet Bristow
"Plain Views - An e-newsletter Connecting Chaplains and Other Spiritual Care Providers" 5/5/2004 Vol. 1, No. 7
"Shawls encircle owner in prayer"
By: Marites N. Sison
"Anglican Journal" April 2004
Wrapped in love: Women knit shawls, breathing a prayer into each stitch
By
SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING
For The Patriot Ledger - South Boston - February 2004
"Finding Comfort In The Cloth"
By: John Zawadzinski
"Anthonian Magazine" December 2003
"Healing Power of Prayer Shawls" - Rebecca Ortinau
Craft 'n Things - Magazine! Pg. 9 - "CraftHealthy Living"
Check out the October 2003 edition for an article about the Prayer Shawls.
Reprinted Article: "Cross Stitcher" Magazine - April 2004
"A shawl that warms the heart"
By: Heather Felton
Florida Catholic
May 2003
"Stitch
By Stitch - Love grows in Venice"
"Hand-knit
embraces"
Prayerfully,
knitters fashion shawls for the sick.
"Prayerful hearts and flying fingers"
and "Reasons for knitting are many"
By: Karen Pelkey, Staff Writer
Farmington Valley Post
January 9th, 2003
"Shawls Serve Many Purposes"
By: Victoria A. Cole-Galo and Janet Bristow
Berlin Citizen
January 2003
"With love... prayer shawls for women suffering breast cancer."
By: Nancy Davis
West Hartford News
October
2002
"The Warm Embrace of Women's Empathy"
By: Susan Plese
Hartford Courant
Fall 2002
By: Theresa Sullivan Barger
Hartford Courant August 7, 2002
"Knitting Into The Mystery Of God"
By: Susan Schenck Izard
Presence: Journal Of Spiritual Direction
September 2000
Pictured
above in Hartford Seminary's 1999 Praxis Issue are:
Victoria Galo (far left) and Janet Bristow (far right)
They are presenting their teachers with shawls.
Donna Manocchio (center left) Assistant Director and
M. T. Winter (center right) Director of the Women's Leadership Institute at the seminary.
"Peace Shawl Warms Iraqi Hearts"