In-home altars provide place for personal spirituality

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | April 11, 2004| | Copyright

In-home altars provide place for personal spirituality

By MARY OTTO Washington Post

Sunday, April 11, 2004

Washington -- On a secondhand table in his apartment, Bill Janey keeps three worn Bibles, a vial of oil, a few photographs of friends, a tiny candle and a box containing a prayer list.

Janey, a Pentecostalist, said he thinks of this spot as the bottom rung of his ladder to God.

Meggie Byrne meditates in the basement of her suburban Colonial home, in a rec room turned prayer room.

Her shrine is a table draped in fabric and dominated by a burnished statue of Buddha and seven bowls, which ...

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