HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Several congregations in Huntsville and other cities have found tangible ways to wrap people in prayer through making and giving away crocheted shawls and hand-knit blankets. The ...

ATLANTA - At 94, Irene Marder is handing out hope, one prayer shawl at a time. If you spend enough time in a cancer center infusion room, you start to notice things. It's crowded, it’s quiet, and, as ...

For the first few years she participated in Hooks and Needles, Donna McDonough kept track of how many blankets and shawls she and her friends made. “We were into the thousands then,” she said. And ...

When he was just 2 months old, Ryan DeBaggis of Norwell developed a tumor on his neck and spent months at Children’s Hospital in Boston. When he needed critical surgery, his mother, Jean, asked ...

Trying to explain the complex sisterhood of girlfriends isn’t easy. If she’s lucky, a woman often shares a common thread of life experiences with her female friends that builds into a network of moral ...

Knitted shawls in a rainbow of colors overflowed from a basket in Joyce Meekins' Amesbury living room earlier this month.Hidden somewhere in Meekins' pile lay the 1,000th shawl created by the Holy ...