Review: The Prayer Wheel: A Daily Guide to Renewing Your Faith with a Rediscovered Spiritual Practice by Patton Dodd, etal

Review: The Prayer Wheel: A Daily Guide to Renewing Your Faith with a Rediscovered Spiritual Practice

Patton Dodd, Jana Riess, And David van Biema

Convergent

2018

The title intrigued me, and I decided to look at this prayer wheel idea. At first, I thought it was a gimmicky idea, but as it turns out it’s something more. The wheel had been used long ago but forgotten until someone looked at the fly leaf of an old ceremonial type bible. There was a copy of this wheel. It’s related to an Augustinian guide from the 4^{th or 5th} century. Think a remix of the original that a Benedictine order had designed. Now it’s rediscovered and back in circulation.

The authors of The Prayer Wheel have written a devotional book that uses the prayer wheel. If a person is willing to work through the devotional, a knowledge of using the prayer wheel would be one of the outcomes. I found their brief daily offerings could be used as prompts to deeper thought, however the reader must have some working knowledge of biblical texts like Matthew chapters 5 and 6 as a minimum. A more complete knowledge would be beneficial, in my opinion.

The book itself is a nice size, but the not very attractive. Maybe if it makes it to a second printing the publishers will consider another design.

I received this book from the publishers in return for a review.

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