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Bonfires This Fall

Bonfires This Fall

Dear Friends on the Journey, Fellow Pilgrims, I couldn’t be more excited coming into this fall.  Yes, I’m excited by what is coming up for you and all of us through Coracle’s offerings (more on that below), but more deeply it’s because of the palpable sense that the...
The Next Journey Updates

The Next Journey Updates

Dear Friends, Coracle, as you know, announced The Next Journey towards the end of 2022, and I am excited today to share how God has been working to bring about our desire to more significantly incarnate our focus on Community, Mission, and Spaces! As we have sought...
A New Chapter in the Valley

A New Chapter in the Valley

Without a few harrowing twists and turns, stories can quickly lose any sense of plot, on the other hand without an ultimate redemptive conclusion, it doesn’t much seem like a story at all. Over the last decade of life I have come to embrace a conviction, which I...
Rest for the Heart: Updates at Corhaven

Rest for the Heart: Updates at Corhaven

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or...
RECORDING: “The Next Journey” for Coracle

RECORDING: “The Next Journey” for Coracle

On January 11, 2023, Rev. Bill Haley offered the fruit of Coracle’s 2022 Corporate Discernment Process— The Next Journey— and unpacked how the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 undergirds this new clarity and direction for Coracle’s mission.  We hope you...
“The Next Journey” for Coracle

“The Next Journey” for Coracle

Dear Friends and Fellow Pilgrims,At this year’s end, I’m truly excited to write to you again with a bit about where Coracle’s been this year, and more so where we are going.  I hope you’ll join with us, whether you live in the Washington DC area, in Baltimore, in the...
Enjoy God’s Gifts with us at Corhaven!

Enjoy God’s Gifts with us at Corhaven!

Along with Common Good Things and the whole Coracle team, Tara and I are excited to invite you to a gorgeous time at Corhaven on Saturday, July 31st we’re calling “Enjoying God’s Gifts: A Taste of Sabbath.” We didn’t really plan it for this reason, but now it comes to...
The Spiritual Dimension of Creation Care

The Spiritual Dimension of Creation Care

“No matter how urban our life, our bodies live by farming; we come from the earth and return to it, and so we live in agriculture as we live in flesh.” – Wendell Berry (The Art of the Commonplace) One of the most important questions a professor asked me in...
“Winter Beauty”

“Winter Beauty”

In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley also makes space for beauty.  In particular, he invites us into a contemplative stroll through music, poetry, and natural beauty woven together by the theme of Winter.  We hope it is a blessing and a...
Beauty for Ballast: A New Coracle Initiative

Beauty for Ballast: A New Coracle Initiative

Blaise Pascal once wrote, “In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”  This seems vitally important as we all continue through difficult times brought on by the pandemic, political strife, and racial brokenness.  In a boat, ballast is the weight...
Teatime with Jesus

Teatime with Jesus

A little over three years ago, my life got pulled out from under my feet.  I experienced one loss after another, starting with the sudden death of my father.  One sweet friend asked a few months into this winter season of life how I wasn’t cowering in a corner from...
Create Among Creation

Create Among Creation

by Krista Cocozello It is written, “in the beginning, God created.” (Gen. 1.1)  It is the first thing we learn about Him.  It is no wonder then that we, made in God’s image, also have the desire to create.  Creative outlets look different for everyone.  For some, it...
Beyond Lament and Necessary for Action

Beyond Lament and Necessary for Action

These are remarkably intense days in an unprecedented year for America.  We’ve seen before some of the things we’re living in now, but never all at the same time like this.  One writer draws out “a fascinating breakdown of 2020 and its historical parallels (so far):...

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