by Bill Haley | Dec 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley offers a distinction between songs for Christmas and songs for Advent. He invites us to sit with the anticipatory yearning and musical beauty of six of the season’s most beautiful songs,...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Nov 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Amy Boucher Pye (Author and Spiritual Director) guides us into a reflection on the distinctive style of contemplative prayer practiced by Julian of Norwich. She draws especially from Karen Dibbens-Wyatt, who has suffered for...
by Ken Wettig | Nov 26, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Last Friday I, probably like you, heard the news story of 315 Nigerian children being abducted from their Catholic school by armed militants in want of ransom money. As I thought about this upcoming Advent themed article I had been planning, I felt myself growing...
by Bill Haley | Nov 24, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Some years ago, Rev. Bill Haley was invited to lead a retreat for Christ Church Austin on a topic of his choosing. Unsurprisingly, he chose to explore “Spiritual Formation for Kingdom Action,” and over the course of 5 keynote lectures, he cast an...
by Coracle | Nov 20, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Zoe Hansen (Spiritual Director and Retreat Facilitator) invites us to meditate on the concept and experience of joy as we approach the holiday season. She breathes life into C.S. Lewis’ somewhat heady...
by Coracle | Nov 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Wanda Bickers (Coracle Spiritual Director) helps us prepare for the Advent season by guiding us through a space visio divina focused on Rembrandt’s “Simeon in the Temple.” The painting draws us...
by Margot Eyring | Nov 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us into a reflection on the upcoming holiday season and the many pressures and expectations that tend to come with the season. She gives us space to process...
by Jessica Clark | Nov 5, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
A few weeks ago I was worshiping in chilly stone churches in England, seeing my breath in the air as I joined in the responses and prayers. Morning prayer always including the Song of Zechariah, and evening prayer the Song of Mary. These two prayers Luke records for...
by Bill Haley | Oct 30, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Rev. Bill Haley guides us through some photos from a recent trip he took to Spain. Starting with some reflections on Antoní Gaudí’s masterful basilica, La Sagrada Familia, Bill then takes us along El Camino de...
by Bill Haley | Oct 29, 2025 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life
Around noon on Thursday October 16, Coracle offered our monthly zoom discussion “Questions That Matter”. The question for that day was “How do you handle disillusionment as it relates to the church and certain Christian leaders?” Then, unexpectedly, a couple hours...
by Coracle | Oct 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Bethany Blankespoor (Pastor) guides us into the life and prayer practice of Saint Clare of Assisi. A contemporary of Saint Francis, St. Clare developed a unique way of praying through the life of Jesus, and Bethany...
by Coracle | Oct 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Anne Grizzle (Pastor & Spiritual Director) helps us consider what it would look like to live our whole lives aware of the presence of the almighty, living God inside us. She shares wisdom from wise men and women of the faith,...
by Coracle | Oct 10, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Roena Clarke takes us with her to the rim of the Grand Canyon, a site of numerous deep encounters with God throughout her adult life. Through the story of Moses, she guides us into a time of honest reflection on...
by Coracle | Oct 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life
by Jeannie Rose Barksdale | Founder of Tangible & Spiritual Director “How can you tell a story about something ordinary that would be very interesting?” This was a friend’s honest question in response to my invitations—over summer months in the liturgical calendar...
by Coracle | Oct 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a time of contemplative writing. Unlike other forms of devotional writing, contemplative writing is meant to be shared as a witness to God’s loving sovereignty and...
by Jessica Clark | Oct 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Are you… Longing for More and wanting to move deeper in your relationship with God? At a crossroads in your life and wanting to process where you’ve been and where you’re going, discerning God’s next step? Ready to step further into the beauty and brokenness of...
by Coracle | Sep 26, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Anne Le Tissier (author and speaker) guides us into a time of dwelling intently and prayerfully on short bits of Scripture. God has poured his heart of love out to us on the pages of Scripture, and when we slow down and...
by Coracle | Sep 18, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God” devotional, Wanda Bickers (Coracle Baltimore) guides us into a time to reflect upon how God’s glory and love can come alive to us through His creation. She shares photos and prompts from a recent beach vacation where she was powerfully...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
How fresh, oh Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! even as the flowers in spring; To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 12, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Scott Buresh (Coracle Baltimore Director) guides us into a time of attending to God’s loving gaze on our lives. Through music, centering prayer, and a guided walk through of Psalm 16, he invites us to journey with...
