by Coracle | Jun 3, 2016 | Contemplative Life, For the World
We just wanted to share this beautiful song that Audrey Assad, a favorite artist of many Coracle associates, released “after Audrey heard of yet another martyrdom in the Middle East. ‘I thought of the many martyrs around the world, but especially those in the...
by Erin Clifford | May 23, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Theologians, philosophers, ethicists, romantic poets, betrayed spouses, dreamy-eyed teenagers and cynical adults, the hopeful and the hopeless have all asked, and are still asking, “What is love?” Whether we know how to define it or not, love is what most of us are...
by Kate Harris | May 6, 2016 | Contemplative Life
“The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.” -Pope Francis A few weeks ago, following a series of...
by Wade Ballou | Apr 27, 2016 | Contemplative Life
In a fast-paced world, we are constantly bombarded with things that require immediate responses, even designed to elicit them. Taking time out to really think about the right response seems counterproductive and there’s almost no room for it. I’m not immune to demands...
by Karla Petty | Apr 26, 2016 | Contemplative Life
I’m tempted to say that there is nothing more important that you could be doing with the next 20 minutes of your life than watching this 20 minute documentary of a conversation between Eugene Peterson and U2’s frontman Bono on the Psalms. This is very...
by Bill Haley | Apr 20, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Coracle · The Kingdom and Sabbath “The Kingdom and the Sabbath”, Luke 6.1-11, Hebrews 4.1-10 Bill’s sermon from Sunday April 17th, given at Bishop O’Connell High School for The Falls Church Anglican.
by Karla Petty | Apr 12, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Creation, Liturgical Seasons
The coming of spring inspires line after line of verse, note after note of melody, and with very good reason. This year, winter seems reluctant to release its icy grip on the Washington Area and the Shenandoah Valley (which the Montgomery County Police have coped with...
by Coracle | Apr 8, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Check out this list of resources we love and avail yourself of some of them! We have found their help significant in making the word of God, its wisdom, and its application more accessible in our lives. We hope you will enjoy them too! Printable PDF accessible here,...
by Coracle | Apr 6, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
We had such a great time celebrating with our friends at Christ Church Vienna on April 3. You can listen to the sermon here, or you can download it from CCV’s website here. Some of our favorite soundbytes: “Disillusionment can be a great gift”...
by Coracle | Mar 27, 2016 | Contemplative Life
“He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said.” Matt 28:6
by Coracle | Mar 25, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Many of us know this traditional African-American spiritual, passed down for many generations since the 19th century. First printed in 1899, it was the first spiritual to be published in a major American hymnal (1940 in the Episcopal Church hymnal). We invite you to...
by Coracle | Mar 7, 2016 | Contemplative Life
The word “contemplative” can seem incongruous in our lightning-fast world, sounding painstakingly slow, or even archaic. For many, life is about results, and the results that count are tangible, quantifiable ones. Prayer doesn’t always produce those,...
by Bill Haley | Feb 27, 2016 | Contemplative Life
I was in my very early 20s when using A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants that I stumbled across this prayer from a man unknown to me then–Henri Nouwen. What he wrote pierced my heart, and set me off to find more of what he had written, and there was...
by Coracle | Feb 24, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News, Spiritual Direction
Hello friends! We’re going to start providing more specialized communication about our area offerings, hoping that many of you will take advantage of them and keep them on your radar. We want to highlight a few of the things we currently offer in Northern...
by Bill Haley | Feb 23, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Vocation
If William Wilberforce was the man who effected the most social change in the first half of 18th century Britain, Anthony Ashley-Cooper was one who did it in the second half. Better know as Lord Shaftesbury, he was a Brit in the mid-late 1800’s who took advantage of...
by Bill Haley | Feb 20, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Bill’s sermon from February 14, 2016 given at The Falls Church Anglican: Coracle · The Kingdom in Word and Deed
by Coracle | Feb 17, 2016 | Contemplative Life
Our friend Jay Jakub found this awhile back and was kind enough to pass it on. How encouraging! How true! My Child, You may not know me, but I know everything about you. Psalm 139:1 I know when you sit down and when you rise up. Psalm 139:2 I am familiar with all your...
by Coracle | Feb 11, 2016 | Contemplative Life
There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down,...
by Coracle | Feb 10, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
This is one of my all-time favorite poems and prayers, from a man well-acquainted with God, and with sin. Regarding sin, who cannot agree with his refrain, “I have more”. Yet it ends in hope and freedom from fear, which is precisely the destination of journey of Lent...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Feb 8, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Lent is about making space for the resurrection by getting rid of that which impedes our relationship with Christ. At its most fundamental, this is sin –and therefore the Lenten invitation is, first and foremost, to repentance – to turn from our idolatry...
