by Drew Masterson | Mar 29, 2021 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Simple Soundings,” Drew Masterson (Coracle Dir. of Comms & Development) offers a slow, prayerful reading of a classic of English Christian Poetry, “The Dream of the Rood.” The poem itself is an extended reflection on the...
by Bill Haley | Nov 12, 2020 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy, Vocation
In May 2014, I had the opportunity to preach on this question, and I did something I’d never done before and haven’t done since. I wrote the sermon first as a long essay, writing it as completely as possible so I could get it all out on the page, and unsurprisingly...
by Drew Masterson | Nov 3, 2020 | Church Unity, Justice and Mercy
In partnership with the Repentance Project, Little Lights, DC Unity & Justice Fellowship, Catholic Volunteer Network, and St. John the Beloved Catholic Church in McLean, VA, we will be offering a conversation with our friend and Catholic priest, Fr. Chris Pollard,...
by Bill Haley | May 21, 2020 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life, Creation
This was originally delivered as a sermon at Washington Community Fellowship in the fall of 2010. In the season of autumn, we are often treated with stunning, breath-taking days of beauty. I cannot help but be reminded of the poem “God’s...
by Kate Harris | Dec 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.” Luke 2:6 (NIV) In an unknown town, a week’s distance from the womanly wisdom of mother, sisters, aunts, it began. Plodding heavily beside...
by Bill Haley | Dec 5, 2019 | Church Unity, Liturgical Seasons
I love my parents, they did a great job with us four kids. They didn’t do it perfectly of course (what parent does?), but they loved us as best they knew how, and loved Jesus as best they knew how, and those two things cover a multitude of, well, things I’m sure they...
by Karla Petty | Nov 5, 2019 | Church Unity, For the World, Pilgrimage
In late September of 2018, I began a journey that started in Rome and ended in Kathmandu. In Italy, my purpose was witnessing my older brother’s ordination into the diaconate of the Roman Catholic Church. In Nepal, it was to witness God’s church at work in the...
by Coracle | Jul 29, 2019 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life
Father James has been my spiritual director for over 20 years, and my life is unrecognizable without his ministry (see more about that here in “What is Spiritual Direction”). In a recent session we were talking about the polarized moment our country is living...
by Wade Ballou | Mar 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Friends, we are well into our season of Lent. I have come to see this season as an invitation by Christ to lean in to be in him and with him in union with the Father, through the strength of the Holy Spirit. The idea of Lent and its practices have developed over many...
by Karla Petty | Nov 1, 2018 | Contemplative Life
“… to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Corinthians 1:2 Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints. Recognition, veneration, and prayer...
by Coracle | Apr 27, 2018 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
By: Kate Kennedy, Coracle Fellow ’18 In talking matters of faith, I’m inevitably asked the question, “so what’s your denomination?” My reaction is always the same. I grin and say, “well, the easiest way to describe myself is with two words –...
by Karla Petty | Mar 9, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Originality consists in returning to the origin.” – Antoni Gaudí I hadn’t heard of Antoni Gaudí before spring of 2004 when I first visited Barcelona, but you can’t miss him once you’re there. Of the many works this master architect designed, his pièce de...
by Coracle | Feb 4, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Soren Johnson, one of Coracle’s very own board members, had his writings highlighted in a post on LivingChurch.org’s blog Covenant. As described by Caleb Congrove in this article, Soren Johnson’s writings are “mostly reflections on fatherhood...
by Coracle | Sep 20, 2015 | Justice and Mercy
John Murdock is a friend of ours who recently published an article, Pope’s Creation Teachings Nothing New for Francis Schaeffer Fans, in Christianity Today. The article is about the Pope’s recent Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You), and connects Catholics...
by Coracle | Aug 10, 2015 | Contemplative Life, Creation, For the World
This article was originally posted to First Things. John Murdoch is a great friend of Coracle, God, and the earth…find out more about him here. The Pope And The Plowman: The Rhetorical Rendezvous of Francis and Wendell Berry After you exit the interstate and...
by Soren Johnson | Jun 30, 2015 | Contemplative Life
This article was written by Soren Johnson. Men repair stuff. I know — I’m resorting to stereotypes. But I don’t know any guys who find happiness by waking up day after day to a bunch of broken things. And yet, according to a friend of mine who oversees facilities for...
by Coracle | Mar 16, 2015 | Contemplative Life
[What does a monk do and why? Members of the Coracle community just got some answers as we returned from an experiences that you’ll read about below. It was great, truly great. I asked the Abbot, Fr. Robert Barnes, “What is the deepest essence of why a monk does...
by Bill Haley | Mar 4, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Several years ago, I was given the opportunity to teach on how Mother Teresa’s life exhibited spiritual maturity, and it afforded the opportunity to explore the meaning of her long “dark night”. It was a privilege for me, and this talk became...
by Coracle | Nov 10, 2014 | Contemplative Life
In case you did not catch this on the EWTN News Nightly, The Trinity House Cafe was featured for a couple of minutes, and we want to share it with you. Soren Johnson, a Coracle board member and friend is connected very closely and his wife, Ever, runs the ministry....
by Bill Haley | Nov 7, 2014 | Church Unity
Our first “Soundings Seminar” was held on Wed. Oct. 8 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Falls Church, VA. Led by Rev. Bill Haley and Soren Johnson, our discussion titled, “Catholics and Evangelicals Together” covered just that: Unity– the...