by Coracle | Mar 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Ann Bodling (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a reflection on the spiritual resonance of light. Beginning with scripture, she then draws in other classic prayers that address, from different angles, our deep longing...
by Coracle | Jan 26, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Kathy Bruce helps us move out of the Zoom room into the cathedral of creation. She guides us to quotes and scriptures that powerfully worship God by attending closely to the beauty, majesty, and scale of...
by Mary Gardner | Dec 16, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Mary Gardner (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into three spiritual practices focused on Mary’s famous prayer in Luke 1, the “Magnificat.” Using both lectio and visio divina, Mary helps us enter imaginatively into...
by Chris Lugo | Aug 25, 2023 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE,” Rev. Chris Lugo reminds us how frequently in Scripture we meet someone asking a question we all ask at different points in our lives, “God, what are you doing?” The Psalms, in particular, are full of pointed...
by Coracle | Sep 21, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Kayla Allen (Coracle Spiritual Director) offers us the chance to embrace in prayer the transition from one season to another. Perhaps you are feeling the transition from summer to fall, or perhaps there is a different kind of...
by Danny Nasry | Aug 16, 2022 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Over the course of the last 8 Wednesdays, a group of some 50 pilgrims and I have journeyed together through the award-winning book Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation As an Exercise in Hope by an Anglican priest, the Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley. ...
by Jeff Lindeman | Jul 14, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Jeff Lindeman (Coracle’s Sr. Dir. for Strategy & Operations) guides us through a few different ways of prayerfully engaging Psalm 119:33-40. Ultimately, he prompts us to ask God for Life as it’s meant to be lived....
by Bill Haley | Mar 24, 2022 | Contemplative Life
This reflection is part of our 2022 “Doubt, Deconstruction & Redemption” Series. You can read my original piece laying out why it is fitting for Coracle to pick up this conversation at this moment HERE. If you are on a deconstruction journey or caring for...
by Rick Campanelli | Mar 14, 2022 | Contemplative Life
Over twenty years ago, during one of those unhappy times when I was facing some uncertainty about the paths before me and, focused on my own confusion, feeling remote from the Lord’s comforting presence, I came upon this wonderful prayer and hymn attributed to St....
by Bill Haley | Mar 3, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Rev. Bill Haley shares an illustration he developed over years of ministry to help Christians visualize the different dimensions of discerning God’s voice. The tool is called “The Discernment Daisy,” and we hope...
by Drew Masterson | Feb 23, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Drew Masterson (Coracle Dir. of Comms & Development) guides us into a profound insight shared by artists, neuroscientists, and the Apostle Paul: our lives are profoundly shaped by the things to which we pay...
by Ken Wettig | Dec 21, 2021 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
“It was not a silent night.” I still remember the moment I first heard those words. I was at a fundraising concert for a local non-profit and a young female singer-songwriter with a voice like glass opened her set with those words from Andrew Peterson’s song “Labor...
by Coracle | Dec 2, 2021 | Contemplative Life
This special Advent offering features music, reflections, and storytelling from Seth Crissman of The Walking Roots Band. He sets Scripture to music, repurposes old hymns, and shares some of his own compositions from The Soil and The Seed Project in this sweet time of...
by Coracle | Aug 17, 2021 | Coracle News
In spite of the beauty that is Christ and Christianity, many Christians are weary of what they see in the church right now. Many confess that they are experiencing what feels like a flattened, narrowed, obscured vision of the Christian faith and life.We hear these...
by Coracle | May 25, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Patty Prasada-Rao (Repentance Project Coordinator) leads us through 1 Peter 5:10 as a response to the so many of us have asked during this year of suffering, sickness, and (at too many points) violence:...
by Drew Masterson | May 5, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Drew Masterson (Coracle Dir. of Comms & Dev) guides us through a series of scriptures highlighting some of the ways our humanity is imagined in the Bible– our intimate connection to the earth, God’s hands-on...
by Karla Petty | Apr 23, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Karla Petty (Coracle Dir. of Program Development) guides us through a time of learning from the life and wisdom of Brother Lawrence (1614-1691). She weaves together scripture, music, and stories from Brother Lawrence to...
by Danny Nasry | Mar 26, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Danny Nasry (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through an opportunity to connect with our inherent human weakness as an invitation to worship and prayer. He interacts with some well-known passages from scripture and...
by Bill Haley | Mar 8, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In the first “Space for God: BIBLE,” Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) opens up the story of Jesus’ first resurrected appearances as recorded in John 20. Ultimately, he invites us to a powerful and counter-cultural vision for the Christian...
by Coracle | Feb 18, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Skip Ryan guides us into a fresh encounter with the Beatitudes as a way of cultivating the right headspace and heart space for Lent. We hope you’ll find somewhere comfy, grab a Bible, open it up to Matthew 5,...