by Coracle | Nov 18, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Maralee Gutierrez (Executive Director of Communidad) guides us through a delightful and informative reflection. She connects the particulars of algorithms, robocalls, and oceans to the unbounded grace of God towards...
by Coracle | Nov 11, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Lori Smith (author and teacher) shares how we can wrestle faithfully with the disappointments that confront all of us at one point or another. Drawing from her own experience living with chronic illness, she helps us...
by Coracle | Nov 9, 2021 | Coracle News
I joined the Fellows program to get clarity on my future vocation as I move into my mid-60s. I came to faith in 1975 after personal loss, a search for meaning, and a journey that took me to some 50 different houses of worship over 50 weeks. My life changed and my...
by Coracle | Nov 2, 2021 | Coracle News, Liturgical Seasons
by Coracle’s Community Ministers “For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.” Athanasius of Alexandria In less than 4 weeks, Advent begins, as does a new Liturgical...
by Coracle | Oct 27, 2021 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” Adam Taylor (President of Sojourners; author of A More Perfect Union) opens up 1 Corinthians 12 as a text that can help us heal the body of Christ despite the challenges currently facing the church in America, especially the...
by Coracle | Oct 22, 2021 | Justice and Mercy
by Jeanne Ayivorh and Will Rowe Origins. In the late Spring of 2019, a Northern Virginia church, Truro Anglican, began to actively work with two other churches, Antioch Baptist Church and New Hope Church, on the topic of racial reconciliation to help heal the wounds...
by Coracle | Oct 14, 2021 | Justice and Mercy
In this Soundings Seminar conversation, Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) is joined by Rev. Duke Kwon and Dr. Gregory Thompson to discuss their new book Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Renewal. They lay out how the book helps American...
by Coracle | Oct 12, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Karen Wright Marsh (author and executive director of Theological Horizons) introduces us to the life and work of Ephrem of Syria (c. 306-373). Eprhem was a Christian pastor, poet, refugee, theologian, and songwriter whose...
by Coracle | Oct 12, 2021 | Coracle News
What initially drew you towards the Coracle Fellowship Program?A dear friend who had been a Fellow the previous year recommended I look into this program. I’m so glad I did! And I remain grateful to my friend!What is one retreat that has particularly resonated with...
by Coracle | Oct 6, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Anna Martinez (Coracle’s Administrator) guides us through an imaginative 3-course meal from scripture. We follow Peter from his betrayal of Jesus to his post-Resurrection reconciliation, to his later vision of...
by Coracle | Sep 30, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Karen Curry (pastor and poet) unpacks Christ’s words to the church in Thyatira from Revelation 2. She shows how the type of sins and idolatry corrupting that church 2000 years ago can still be found in our...
by Coracle | Sep 28, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this Soundings Seminar, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) talks with Amy Boucher Pye (Author and Spiritual Director) about her new book 7 Ways to Pray: Time-Tested Practices for Encountering God. Through their conversation, they offer us ways to...
by Coracle | Sep 21, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ryan Bettwy (Anglican Priest) draws from James 1 to explore how our trials can serve as “kaleidoscopic crucibles of character” if we approach them from the mindset of faith. He helps us practice reframing the...
by Coracle | Sep 14, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Lori Smith (author and teacher) shares how she came to better appreciate the beauty of the Lord’s creation after taking up watercolor during a season of extended suffering from Lyme disease. She came to...
by Coracle | Aug 31, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Christie Bettwy (Executive Director of Rock Recovery) shares the ways we are all drawn towards different forms of idolatry that deform our desires and ultimately render our lives shallow. From her own struggles with an...
by Coracle | Aug 27, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Marissa Salgado (Programs Director at Casa Chirilagua) opens up John 15 to us. She explores the deep truths contained in the image of Jesus as the vine and us as the branches, and guides us through a moving...
by Coracle | Aug 24, 2021 | For the World
We are all grieving the ongoing unrest and devastation affecting Afghanistan and Haiti. Moments like these remind us that the world is broken. And even so, there are many rallying to be the healing, redeeming presence of God in those very places of brokenness. If...
by Coracle | Aug 23, 2021 | Contemplative Life
Every Tuesday morning from 8:30-9 AM (ET), we offer “Space for God”– a time to meet with and be met by God through a guided time of reflection and prayer. Over the weeks, the archive of recordings from this rich time together has grown into a terrific...
by Coracle | Aug 23, 2021 | Contemplative Life
Every Tuesday morning from 8:30-9 AM (ET), we offer “Space for God”– a time to meet with and be met by God through a guided time of reflection and prayer. Over the weeks, the archive of recordings from this rich time together has grown into a terrific...
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...
