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 Scott Buresh | Aug 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Can beauty save the world? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn took up this question posed by Dostoevsky in his nobel prize winning speech in 1970. Coming out of the horrors of the Soviet gulags, Solzhenitsyn found himself convinced that beauty expressed through art could in...
by Bill Haley | Aug 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley introduces us to the doctrine of continuous creation and its ability to shift our posture towards the natural world. Drawing upon Catholic Nun and theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s writings on...
by Drew Masterson | Aug 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Drew Masterson (Center for Christian Study) guides us into a time reflecting upon five Puritan prayers drawn from The Valley of Vision. These artfully constructed prayers are a feast of theological insight, spiritual...
by NaTasha Brown | Aug 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life, For the World, Justice and Mercy
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. Psalm 33:5 In times like these, it can be all too easy to focus on the overwhelming presence of darkness in the world. Evil, sin, and brokenness seem to surround us, and each day the...
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 Ken Wettig | Jul 22, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.” – Brother Lawrence Initially it was the breakdown of civil engagement across...
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 Scott Buresh | Jul 14, 2025 | Contemplative Life
For three years, a band of women along with 12 men had the opportunity to literally walk with Jesus unhurried. They traveled by foot from village to village at a pace conducive to rich conversation as they took in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. We are...
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 Ken Wettig | Jul 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Technology has given us instant communication, unrivaled convenience, and most precious of all, longer lives with less drudgery. At the same time, technology has isolated us from each other, sowed political division, fueled inequality, spread pervasive pessimism,...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Corhaven Retreat Center Director) invites us to consider the difference between reflecting about the Trinity and conversing with the Trinity. He guides us into Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer and the...
by Scott Buresh | Jul 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Trinity Sunday” By Malcolm Guite In the Beginning, not in time or space, But in the quick before both space and time, In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace, In three in one and one in three, in rhyme, In music, in the whole creation story, In His own...
by Bill Haley | Jun 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley introduces us to simple yet powerful prayer, The Litany of Trust. Written by the Sisters of Life and distributed across the globe, the Litany invites us to confront our fears and insecurities,...
by Bill Haley | Jun 25, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Friends, what a remarkable time to be alive, what a privilege in days like this to be able to bear witness to the reality of the Risen, Living Christ and the God Who Is Love and the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus that is utterly different from any human kingdom, state, or...
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 Scott Buresh | Jun 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Scott Buresh (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into a time of reflecting on and hopefully experiencing the unique joy and peace that comes through a secure relationship with Jesus. Weaving together the latest...
by Margot Eyring | Jun 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us into a time of intentional attention—of gazing on the world around us in such a way that we perceive the beauty we are normally tempted to skip...
by Bill Haley | Jun 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
I hope that the weather where you live has been as interesting as here in the Washington area–unpredictable, unseasonable, and gorgeous. In recent months, nature has been speaking more deeply to me of God (for example, in the breathing trees). I’m grateful to be...
