by Coracle | Oct 10, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Roena Clarke takes us with her to the rim of the Grand Canyon, a site of numerous deep encounters with God throughout her adult life. Through the story of Moses, she guides us into a time of honest reflection on...
by Coracle | Oct 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life
by Jeannie Rose Barksdale | Founder of Tangible & Spiritual Director “How can you tell a story about something ordinary that would be very interesting?” This was a friend’s honest question in response to my invitations—over summer months in the liturgical calendar...
by Coracle | Oct 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a time of contemplative writing. Unlike other forms of devotional writing, contemplative writing is meant to be shared as a witness to God’s loving sovereignty and...
by Coracle | Sep 26, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Anne Le Tissier (author and speaker) guides us into a time of dwelling intently and prayerfully on short bits of Scripture. God has poured his heart of love out to us on the pages of Scripture, and when we slow down and...
by Coracle | Sep 18, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God” devotional, Wanda Bickers (Coracle Baltimore) guides us into a time to reflect upon how God’s glory and love can come alive to us through His creation. She shares photos and prompts from a recent beach vacation where she was powerfully...
by Coracle | Sep 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life
*On Sept 13th, and Nov 22nd. Coracle is inviting you to come out to Corhaven for 8hrs of freedom from the noise. The retreat will begin with a 30 minute spiritual practice together to recollect ourselves before God. From there retreatants will be given guidance for...
by Coracle | Aug 27, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Wanda Jones-Yeatman (Leadership Expert) guides us into a time of visio divina centered on “The Touch,” a painting by Aaron Hicks and Alan Hicks. The painting depicts the scene from Mark 5:21-34, when...
by Coracle | Aug 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life, For the World
In this “Space for God” devotional, Nate Bacon (InnerCHANGE Missionary in Guatemala) shares a handful of difficult stories from the populations he works with in Central America, illustrating how difficult it can be sometimes to do the next right thing in a...
by Coracle | Jul 25, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Jimeka Jones Setzer (Spiritual Companion) invites us to let a little joy into our lives by attending to and moving our bodies as an act of worship. She guides us into a “body scan” practice,...
by Coracle | Jul 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Vocation
In this “Space for God” devotional, Tracy Matthews (Attune to Grow) guides us through the “attunement cycle” her organization developed for their ministry and corporate clients. The cycle weaves together ancient Christian spiritual practices...
by Coracle | Jul 11, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dave Schmigdall (New Story Behavioral Health) guides us into a series of practices meant to help us attend to our bodies and to let them draw us deeper into connection with God and others. Weaving together his own story...
by Coracle | Jul 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
If you are interested in exploring the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in community, here are two upcoming opportunities: 1) Coracle Spiritual Director, Sharon Welsch, will be leading people through Dale Gish’s book, Beloved: A Journey of Prayer (A Taste of the Ignatian...
by Coracle | Jun 20, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Andy McClain (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into the insights of a new book by Caroline Oakes called Practice the Pause: Jesus’ Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science, and What It Means to Be Fully...
by Coracle | Jun 10, 2025 | Justice and Mercy
Kathy R. Williamson Bruce shares with Coracle, “Where Can I Go From Here? — Action, Advocacy, and Allyship”. Kathy serves on the Coracle Baltimore Core Team. Kathy has been called to set tables designed to tear down walls of racial division and...
by Coracle | Jun 4, 2025 | Coracle News
We are sad to share the news of the passing of Desiree Barker, one of Coracle’s early spiritual directors, on May 30 in Hoover, Alabama. Desiree was a beautiful and compassionate soul who deeply cared for others and accompanied many others on their deeper spiritual...
by Coracle | May 29, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) walks us through the difference between a disciplined prayer life and a disciple’s prayer life. Rather than settle for a rigid form of prayer, she invites us to...
by Coracle | May 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Few passages elicit a more emotional response from women than the Luke 10 story of Mary and Martha. As a spiritual director, when I meet with someone new, I often start with a Lectio Divina on that passage. Initially, my purpose in choosing this passage was to explore...
by Coracle | May 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Roy Hange (Mennonite pastor and missionary) guides us through meditative reflections on three “cliffhanger” moments for God’s people through history. Appreciating the consistent character of God and...
by Coracle | May 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Bette Dickinson (artist and author) guides us into the deep wisdom of Jesus’ teaching in John 12:23, where he illustrates the upside-down growth model of his kingdom with the image of a seed falling into the soil. She...
by Coracle | May 2, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dr. Barbara L. Peacock (Author and Spiritual Director) guides us into the practice of lament. She offers us time and space to lament whatever is weighing most heavily on our hearts in this season, and then helps us to bring those...
