Stoking the Embers

Stoking the Embers

Pebbles and Prayer: How Early Christians Kept Count

"Using Prayer beads is not biblical!" he said. But that doesn't mean it isn't Christian!

Aug 01, 2025
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I came across a post on Threads the other day—one of those confidently wrong zingers that floats around Protestant corners of the internet. It claimed that “using prayer beads is not biblical,” accompanied by a smug graphic with the caption: “This is how Satan taught the world to pray.

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