Around the world in 80 prayers

“… to trace prayer as both a practice and idea across the world. The goal is to begin to discover how words of peace and love hold the world together. ”

Team Members/Contributors

Becca Stevens Thistle Farms Contact Me

About this pastoral study project

This will be an inspiring collection of prayers

with commentary that takes us deeper into the origins and

practices of the prayers. We will learn about the roots, practice, and change the prayers call forth. Beginning with prayers from the American Story, then moving to the old Celtic prayers of Ireland, over holy pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, into the holy waters of Lourdes in France, under the celestial visions in Italy, across the Malankara Church in India, through the ancient Coptic Church in Ethiopia, with the women's missionary prayers of Singapore, around the Cape with the Anglican tradition of peace in South Africa, beside the coastal traditions in Peru, and 70 other inspired places and stories, the reader will learn history, feel inspired, and rediscover how prayers for peace and love affect change and hold up the world.

I will be a guide through this journey as I travel the world, visiting the global partners of Thistle Farms where women from all of these countries have come together to unite in a powerful social enterprise to help stop the violence of trafficking, poverty, and war.