by Coracle | Apr 25, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
He has shown you, O man, what is good;And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?Micah 6:8 NKJVLive Justly, Love, Mercy, Walk Humbly…These are three instructions we have received from our Lord about how to...
by Ken Wettig | Apr 24, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Friends, Coracle’s youth ministry program, SLAQ (Servant Leader Quest, based out of the Shenandoah Valley), has two exciting upcoming opportunities we’d like to share with you. First, Join us online or in-person for a major milestone in the SLAQ...
by Chris Lugo | Apr 19, 2024 | Contemplative Life
For the last couple of months I’ve talked about stories (read more here & here!) The power of stories and how they move people to not only hear but understand people who are very different from ourselves. When we listen to stories we hear different parts or...
by Coracle | Apr 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Andy McClain (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us through a famous baccalaureate address given by Howard Thurman called, “The Sound of the Genuine.” Weaving Thurman’s remarks together with...
by Chris Lugo | Apr 15, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rev. Chris Lugo (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through a number of artistic reflections on what it means to be beloved and to see ourselves that way. He draws upon 1 John 4’s depiction of God as love and...
by Coracle | Apr 6, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Rev. Chris Lugo (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into the Lord’s Prayer, with a particular focus on the transformative and deeply encouraging vision of God the Father carried in these words of Jesus. ...
by Coracle | Apr 4, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Kathy Bruce guides us into a practice of contemplative worship drawing out how creation’s spiritual potential. Specifically, she focuses on how the act of gardening can instruct us about God and form us as...
by Bill Haley | Mar 26, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Friends, as followers of Jesus we are to be incarnations of the Incarnation. The actual invitation of the Christian faith is not just to believe in Jesus or be like Jesus or tell others about Jesus (as right as these thing are), but actually to be the presence...
by Chris Lugo | Mar 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Confession isn’t merely a spiritual discipline, it is a way to be human. In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Rev. Chris Lugo guides us through Psalm 32, unpacking what confession really means and how important it is to living the life Jesus...
by Bill Haley | Mar 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry (Luke 19) into Jerusalem offers a dramatic contrast. On this, the first Palm Sunday which we still celebrate even on this very day, the whole story of Jesus begins quickly moving to its climax. Indeed the whole story of Israel, which had...
by Coracle | Mar 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Ann Bodling (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a reflection on the spiritual resonance of light. Beginning with scripture, she then draws in other classic prayers that address, from different angles, our deep longing...
by Scott Buresh | Mar 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent,” Scott Buresh (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into a time of lectio divina focused on Matthew 11:28-30, one of Jesus’ most powerful and hopeful sayings. Scott reveals how Christ’s invitation to “learn...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Mar 14, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Kristy Wallace Grant (Repentance Project Director) guides us into the famous “Hall of Saints” imagined in Hebrews 11. Her spacious offering invites us to consider the saints in our lives who have walked before us in faith and...
by Coracle | Mar 9, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into the story of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. He helps us appreciate the human, emotional dimension of Jesus’ life on display in this moving scene, in order to...
by Jeff Lindeman | Mar 7, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Jeff Lindeman (Coracle Sr Dir for Strategy & Operations) guides us into the little spiritual journey Paul narrates in Ephesians 2:1-10. Jeff slows us down enough to appreciate how this profound passage narrates our...
by Scott Buresh | Mar 6, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Do not hurry as you walk with grief It does not help the journey Walk slowly, pausing often Do not hurry as you walk with grief Be not disturbed by memories that come unbidden Swiftly forgive and let Unspoken words, unfinished conversations be resolved in your...
by Margot Eyring | Mar 2, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) helps us reflect on our stories in such a way that we actively cultivate the hope and expectation of our future transformation by God. She guides us into a...
by Ken Wettig | Feb 29, 2024 | Contemplative Life
There is a way that seems right to a person, but in the end its way is death.” – Proverbs 14:12 Two only sons, each deeply loved by their father, stumble up a mountain heavy with the wood of their own sacrifice upon their shoulders. One is named Isaac, and his...
by Coracle | Feb 29, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, art historian Jan Haugen invites us to reflect upon a particular work of art: The Railway by Edouard Manet (1873). Through this work, Jan unfolds some of the distinctive elements of impressionist art and helps us to become...
by Ken Wettig | Feb 24, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through The Lord’s Prayer, pausing at each phrase to dive into its deeper significance and invitation. He helps us rediscover the spiritual riches of this often...
