by Karla Petty | Jan 6, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Karla Petty (Coracle’s Dir. of Program Development) adapts prayers and liturgies from Every Moment Holy by Douglas McKelvey to offer a unique and refreshing way to enter a new year. EXPLORE Past “Space for God”...
by Karla Petty | Jul 13, 2021 | Contemplative Life
The idea of Sabbath is as old as Creation, when God took the seventh day to rest (Genesis 2:1-3). In Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 10, we find that everyone in the household, even little ones, observes the Sabbath. God’s call to regular rest even extended to the farm...
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 Karla Petty | Apr 21, 2021 | Contemplative Life, Creation
86. From Aurora LeighBy Elizabeth Barrett Browning TRUTH, so far, in my book;—the truth which drawsThrough all things upwards,—that a twofold worldMust go to a perfect cosmos. Natural thingsAnd spiritual,—who separates those twoIn art, in morals, or the social...
by Karla Petty | Mar 15, 2021 | Justice and Mercy
In this Lenten season, we look soberly at our past and present in preparation for Resurrection Sunday, for the reason we have true hope in the midst of this beautiful and broken world. Through this year’s “Toward the Beloved Community Initiative,” the Coracle...
by Karla Petty | Mar 9, 2021 | Peacemaking
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. James 4:1-2 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too...
by Karla Petty | Feb 23, 2021 | For the World
We’re excited to give an update that draws together several parts of Coracle’s world: Pilgrimage, Community, and Kingdom Action! In October of 2019, we traveled to Guatemala. Helping Christian communities intentionally and incarnationally engage the world’s wounded...
by Karla Petty | Feb 17, 2021 | Pilgrimage
While 2020 was a year of expansion and exploration for Coracle in so many ways, most of them involved computer screens and new features on Zoom instead of hiking boots and maps and forays into foreign lands. In the past, we have encountered Israel/Palestine, walked...
by Karla Petty | Jan 27, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In the mid 1990’s, you may recall, “Magic Eye” optical illusion books swept the nation featuring graphics (autostereograms) that, if seen correctly, would reveal a 3D shape or picture. Not for lack of trying, those 3D images never appeared to me. I would sit and...
by Karla Petty | Nov 24, 2020 | Contemplative Life
This week our nation will take a day or two away from its normal rhythms to focus on thankfulness. Many of you have been able to join us for our Tuesday morning “Space for God” devotionals, and this week I took a page from Ann Voskamp’s wonderful book, “One Thousand...
by Karla Petty | Oct 13, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Have you ever left a pile of papers or blankets or clothes in a corner of your home and then proceeded to forget all about it? It never goes anywhere, but we lose the ability (or the will) to see it properly. So too with God’s presence in our homes. All space...
by Karla Petty | Sep 14, 2020 | Contemplative Life
I experienced the passage of time through a wide variety of tempos these last six months. March was Allegretto – “moderately fast”. April through June was Adagio – “slowly with great expression”. July through August was Andante – at a walking pace. And now we’re...
by Karla Petty | Mar 30, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
Many of you have probably seen this widely-circulated Coronavirus meme: It’s funny because it’s true, almost painfully so. Over the past few weeks, every single pilgrimage that Coracle had planned for this year has been canceled, postponed or called seriously into...
by Karla Petty | Mar 10, 2020 | Coracle News
“You’re like a mirror, reflecting me Takes one to know one, So take it from me…” –from “Dust to Dust” by The Civil Wars We’re all increasingly familiar and inundated – in religious and secular contexts equally – with the vocabulary around...
by Karla Petty | Feb 21, 2020 | Coracle News, For the World
God has been blazing this trail for us long before we arrived in Guatemala for the first time in October of 2019. Our team of 12 people tread further onto a path already well-marked by God’s provision of friendships, connections, shared heart and vision, and...
by Karla Petty | Feb 5, 2020 | Contemplative Life
2020 is now well under way. Whether you made resolutions or not, the language of starting over and afresh surrounds us immediately following Christmas and well into the first months of the new year. Come January 1, we are bombarded with messages about becoming new...
by Karla Petty | Feb 4, 2020 | Church Unity, For the World, Peacemaking, Pilgrimage
Bill and I would like to invite you all to come with us and Coracle to Bethlehem in Palestine for the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference, held June 5-9 this year. This conference is offered every other year by a broad coalition of evangelical Palestinian Christians...
by Karla Petty | Jan 22, 2020 | Coracle News, For the World, Pilgrimage
There are well-known slogans like “Explore More” or “Never Stop Exploring” with mass marketing appeal that reflect a well-documented trend towards exploration and travel as a modern-day virtue in American culture. More and more, people are leaving behind the comfort...
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 Karla Petty | Aug 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
I. Kyrie II. Gloria III. Credo IV. Sanctus and Benedictus V. Agnus Dei We’ve just finished another Coracle pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This time, we walked along the Camino Portuguese using the Coastal Route option. It leads you for...
