by Bill Haley | Sep 11, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Late last year I felt led to try to stay closer to the Desert Fathers and Mothers, those Christians from around the southeastern Mediterranean basin in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Their desire for union with God and a God-ly life led them to great renunciations, much...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into a reflection on Matthew 14 and the story of Jesus walking on the water. He draws our attention to Jesus’ 5 remarks during this episode, using them as...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 3, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
I’ve long been drawn by the Celtic Christians’ awareness of thin places, moments or spaces where the veil between heaven and earth becomes more transparent. Over the past 9 years I have personally experienced the sacredness of Iona and Holy Island/Lindisfarne in...
by Scott Buresh | Aug 29, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dr. Scott Buresh (Coracle Community Minister) draws together insights on life’s “Thresholds” from John O’Donohue with images and insights from a recent pilgrimage in the UK. As we enter the fall, we...
by Margot Eyring | Aug 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us through a time of locus divina. Flowing out of the practices of lectio and visio divina, locus divina enables us to appreciate the space we currently are...
by Ken Wettig | Aug 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) invites us to consider the Biblical definition of rest and its central importance to abundant life with God. He guides us through a “life audit” so that we can see more...
by Coracle | Aug 9, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dr. Barbara Peacock (Spiritual Director and Author) invites us to consider the core elements of prayer—its foundation, movements, and posture. We hope you will come to a deeper appreciation of your need for God and God’s...
by Bill Haley | Jul 30, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley guides us into a meditation on fire. Tracing the theme of fire through scripture, Bill helps us wrestle with our invitation to be both purified and illuminated by God’s fire of love. EXPLORE Past...
by Coracle | Jul 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
by: Roena Clarke It was April 1985. I remember it like it was yesterday. My parents and I, and my brother Jimmy, who was 25 years old and in his last days of battling cancer, were headed to Pennsylvania for a fast -pitch softball tournament. Jimmy was an incredible...
by Rick Mastroianni | Jul 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rick Mastroianni (Coracle Spiritual Director) introduces us to the ancient Latin hymn “Ubi Caritas.” He invites us to consider how this hymn can 1) root our imaginations and hopes in the sacrificial love...
by Bill Haley | Jul 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life
It’s only been a couple of weeks since I felt led to offer a “how to stay grounded and peaceful in God” reflection. And then these past few days, phew! And that’s just the United States, not to mention Ukraine and Gaza and places of war and other places and people...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Jul 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Kristy Wallace Grant (Coracle Ministry Center Coordinator) guides us into a time to wrestle with the tension between our perception of the world and God’s reality. Starting with the bleakness of...
by Drew Masterson | Jul 14, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Drew Masterson (UVA Center for Christian Study) guides us into a reflection on a children’s book offering a creative reimagining of St. Francis’ famous prayer, “The Canticle of the Creatures.” Both...
by Bill Haley | Jul 10, 2024 | Contemplative Life
I seem to not be able to escape them, Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood. Their stories are told Mark 5.21-43 and Luke 8.40-56. She was in the gospel reading for our Wednesday Noon Eucharist last week, she is in the gospel reading for our healing Eucharist...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Jul 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Amy Boucher Pye (Author and Spiritual Director) guides us into a series of reflections on art and scripture designed to help us know and experience the loving gaze of God our Father. May we all heed Amy’s...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 1, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Truly we are excited about the various ways that God has been at work in and through Corhaven here in the valley in the last months. From hosting immigrants and refugee middle school youth for SLAQ’s Newcomer Adventure Day Camp, to seeing individuals and...
by Coracle | Jun 28, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
In this “Space for God” devotional, Kathy Bruce guides us into a reflection on The Emancipation Tree in Hampton, VA. Weaving together scripture and story, she invites us to consider how we might deepen our spiritual roots to persevere in God’s work...
by Coracle | Jun 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Anne Grizzle (author & Spiritual Director) guides us through a reflection on cultivating our hearts’ longing for the beauty of the Lord, anchored in Psalm 27. She weaves together a handful of prayer practices to...
by Ken Wettig | Jun 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Join us August 2nd-3rd for 24 hours as a gathering of men seeking Jesus explore together what it might mean to be a faithful man today through our Fathers & First Things open retreat at Corhaven. Q: Do I need to be a father to participate? A: You do not need to be...
by Ken Wettig | Jun 14, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through a reflection on fear, in the Biblical story and in our lives. Focusing on the story of Abraham, Ken unpacks how God consistently calls his people to live lives...
