by Coracle | Jul 3, 2017 | Contemplative Life
By: Kathryn McIvor, 2017 Corhaven Intern As a worship planner on the edge of burnout, I had mastered the art of being in a service without engaging too deeply, afraid that an encounter with God might just push me past the point of no return. So I hid behind the...
by Coracle | Jun 20, 2017 | Contemplative Life
I love finishing my personal letters with a little ‘offering of soul’. This time it’s fly-fishing, and there’s much more to say about this at a later date. Going for trout with a fly rod is one of only a very few things that takes my mind off all else and one of the...
by Bill Haley | Jun 16, 2017 | Contemplative Life
I am in anguish… It lit something in me. It was such a brief conversation a couple of months ago while walking the littered streets of Bethlehem, but its effect is having the effect of focusing my attention like a laser. On our last Coracle/Telos trip to the Israel...
by Erin Clifford | May 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people.” -E. M. Bounds Which one of us has not grown weary in prayer and needed someone to intercede for us? In Scripture we...
by Bill Haley | May 22, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Listen here to Bill Haley’s sermon given at The Falls Church Anglican on May 21, 2017: Coracle · Don’t Fear Suffering, Rather…
by Bill Haley | May 18, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Over the years of my life, I’ve seen something happen enough times to be able to recognize something of a pattern that ends up really changing things for me, super-charging my heart and giving me new passion and vision. It’s when some deep truth–ubiquitous in the...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Apr 21, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Last week I spent my day off doing a deep spring cleaning. I swept the dirty corners of my room, dusted-off countertops and opened all the windows of my house to let the fresh air in; and once everything was back in its place – dusted, cleaned, polished and...
by Coracle | Apr 20, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
by: Katie Kallam Going into my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I knew that I would encounter holy places, sites where Jesus walked, where he lived and died, but I knew very little about the modern Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I...
by Rick Mastroianni | Apr 7, 2017 | Contemplative Life
A reflection on the “God Loves You. . . No, Really” retreat “’You are the Beloved’ – My only desire is to make these words reverberate in every corner of your being.” — Henri Nouwen, The Life of the Beloved The symptoms sounded all too familiar: anxiety,...
by Erin Clifford | Mar 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Don’t the Bible say we must love everybody?” “O, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but then, nobody ever thinks of doing them.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Whether you are a new follower of Jesus, or have been one for many...
by Bill Haley | Mar 26, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” Neh. 5.19 Pray and Be Strange for God’s sake, your good, and others…and expect costly opposition A few years ago I had the opportunity to make my first trip to China, to Shanghai. Two things...
by Scott Buresh | Mar 17, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Fifteen years ago my wife Peggy and I had the incredible opportunity of spending two weeks with Dallas Willard and a community of brothers and sisters at the Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center in Sierra Madre, California. As that week progressed we were given...
by Coracle | Mar 13, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Listen to Bill’s semon given at the Falls Church Anglican on March 12, 2017 on 1 Peter 1: Coracle · Born Again To A Living Hope
by Karla Petty | Mar 9, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Originality consists in returning to the origin.” – Antoni Gaudí I hadn’t heard of Antoni Gaudí before spring of 2004 when I first visited Barcelona, but you can’t miss him once you’re there. Of the many works this master architect designed, his pièce de...
by Coracle | Mar 8, 2017 | Contemplative Life
By: Joe Riffe I hate failing. It’s excruciating. This was true when I was young. I hated failing at school or at sports or high school attempts to be “cool.” Becoming an adult hasn’t changed that fact. My opportunities for failure have just changed. Now they are work,...
by Erin Clifford | Mar 1, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Thomas Merton said: “We are not converted only once in our lives but many times, and this endless series of large and small conversions, inner revolutions, leads to our transformation in Christ.” As a child, I was considered a Pollyanna in our family. A...
by Coracle | Feb 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Liturgical seasons can act as guideposts through the year and Lent is a particularly special one. It’s easy to get caught up in the “sackcloth and ashes” part of Lent, with all the self-denial and focus on our own sin. This is important to...
by Scott Buresh | Feb 23, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
This coming Wednesday, March 1, marks the beginning of the Lenten season this year. I used to think of Lent primarily as a somber time of suffering, self-denial, repentance. In other words a time for me to feel great sorrow which for me also meant guilt and shame over...
by Coracle | Feb 21, 2017 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life
Bill Haley’s sermon from Sunday Feb 21, 2017 at The Falls Church Anglican on falling in love with Jesus, and how that is an integral and important first step in following Him.
by Coracle | Feb 16, 2017 | Contemplative Life, For the World
By: Margot Eyring, Coracle Spiritual Director Margot is a regular volunteer at Our Daily Bread Breakfast Ministry in DC and Health and Wellness Professional. She writes on how Prayer, Compassion and Paying Attention have been helpful to her in her spiritual life. ...
