by Ken Wettig | May 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
The Lord said, “Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it…Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” ~ Genesis 6:14, 22 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with...
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...
by Jessica Clark | Apr 30, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Most Thursday evenings, throughout winter and spring, I’ve joined a listening prayer cohort at a local-to-me urban retreat center (I reside outside of Seattle, WA), which has provided a restful pause to the week’s activities. Guided by a spiritual director, we reflect...
by Coracle | Apr 25, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Laura Merricks (Spiritual Director) guides us into a time of visio and lectio divina centered around the image of Jesus as our good shepherd. She traces this image through scripture and then invites us to dwell on it...
by Bill Haley | Apr 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Around this time two years ago, a friend gifted me with an insight that was not hers, but rather from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”: “Let him Easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us.” Easter as a verb! Wow!...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Apr 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Amy Boucher Pye (Author & Spiritual Director) guides us through the first half of Passion Week. She helps us slow down and attend to Jesus’ intentionality through a turbulent week— from his anointing at Bethany and...
by Scott Buresh | Apr 15, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Now stay focused on Jesus, who designed and perfected our faith. He endured the cross and ignored the shame of that death because He focused on the joy that was set before Him; and now He is seated beside God on the throne, a place of honor.” (Heb. 12:2)...
by Coracle | Apr 11, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Rev. Anne Grizzle (Spiritual Director) guides us through a reflective overview of the events of Holy Week. From the Triumphal Entry to the thief on the Cross, Anne invites us to prepare our hearts to fully immerse ourselves...
by Ken Wettig | Apr 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
For Practicing Spiritual Formation and Cultural Resistance “We also promise that if the people of the land should bring any merchandise or grain to be sold on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will refuse to buy it.” – Nehemiah 10:31 “We are not the...
by Coracle | Apr 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Terry Timm (Pastor, Author, Coach) guides us through Jesus’ three temptations in the wilderness, a classic framing for the Lenten season. He demonstrates how ubiquitous Satan’s three temptations are in...
by Coracle | Apr 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life
by: Jimeka Jones Setzer | Lead Pastor, Church of the Well While scrolling through Instagram, watching reels and keeping up with the “daily news” from everyday people, so many questions and concerns rose within me such as: “Somebody should do something about all of...
by Coracle | Apr 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life
By Kevin Goertzen What comes to mind when you think of the wilderness? Maybe you think of barrenness: like the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. For some, it might be testing: like Jesus being tempted in the wilderness for 40 days. And...
by Coracle | Apr 2, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Our friend and Coracle Baltimore core team member, Kathy Bruce, is hosting an upcoming Kitchen Table Conversation: There’s so much going on in the world. We are now 11 weeks into the first 100 Days of Donald Trump’s Presidency. Many people have different opinions and...
by Mary Gardner | Mar 29, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rev. Dr. Mary Amendolia Gardner (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a time reflecting on and writing songs of praise to God. She introduces us to a few simple songwriting tools to get us started and...
by Bill Haley | Mar 27, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Friends, I care about you, about your well being, your peaceableness, your deeper life in God, and each of our invitations to Christ-likeness, especially in this national moment in America. How might what we’re all going through be an agent of our personal deepening...
by Scott Buresh | Mar 26, 2025 | Contemplative Life
What a fitting and timely question. I was first confronted with this question in 2019 during retreat #6 of the Coracle Fellowship. The implications of this question for me were raw and profound as I was still grieving the loss of my wife to glioblastoma, a highly...
by Jeff Lindeman | Mar 21, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Jeff Lindeman guides us into three texts that have helped him cultivate resilience in times of turmoil or trial. He offers times of reflective silence to steep in the goodness, truth, and beauty of the Apostles Creed,...
by Ken Wettig | Mar 19, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“They were longing for a better country–a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God.” – Hebrews 11:16 “True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the...
by Coracle | Mar 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Jan Haugen (Docent, National Gallery of Art) guides us through a time observing and reflecting upon Johannes Vermeer’s 1664 work, “Woman Holding a Balance.” By helping us understand the...
by Jessica Clark | Mar 12, 2025 | Contemplative Life
At a retreat over the weekend, I was struck anew by the gracious gifts of our Lord. During the teaching sessions, we were exploring the arc of God’s redemptive story, particularly highlighting His covenants with His people. Many of us have gone to church services...
