by Coracle | Oct 6, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Creation
For more pictures: follow @commongoodthing on Instagram. Last week I had the opportunity to visit one of the oldest letterpress print shops in the country. I knew the company well, but that knowledge hardly compared to the experience of standing on the production...
by Coracle | Jul 16, 2018 | Creation
By: Susan Den Herder Coracle Business Developer It started almost three years ago, with a simple email exchange about “makers.” It was an early idea about helping Coracle create products, working closely with Tara Haley and the good things she was already doing and...
by Rick Mastroianni | Jul 9, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Creation
On June 30, Kit and Greg Elmer hosted a creation retreat for some nature-starved urban pilgrims. I was seeking refuge from my fast-paced electronic, mechanical and artificial world. The Elmer’s home has a backyard gate that’s like Professor Kirke’s wardrobe...
by Tara Haley | Jun 12, 2018 | Creation
Well friends, the warm weather has finally come and, with it, abundant new life to Corhaven! The spring garden has been in the ground for nearly a month and we have been enjoying asparagus and rhubarb, while the leeks, onions, garlic, and shallots have sent up green...
by Karla Petty | May 4, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Creation
“A cold spring: the violet was flawed on the lawn. For two weeks or more the trees hesitated; the little leaves waited, carefully indicating their characteristics. Finally a grave green dust settled over your big and aimless hills… The infant oak-leaves swung through...
by Tara Haley | Jun 16, 2016 | Creation
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Pope Francis, in his “Laudato Si” encyclical released last year, notes that not only did God create the earth but that it is still a place of his Presence. God created the earth and God dwells in his creation....
by Coracle | Jun 3, 2016 | Creation, Vocation
Memorial day has passed and it’s unofficially summer. Pools are open, school’s almost out, and our minds turn to longer days and outdoor fun. In many places, it also means the arrival of summer interns! For the second year now, Corhaven is no exception. We are...
by Abigail Whitehouse | May 11, 2016 | Creation
Looking for books on creation care? Want a new app for the summer? I’d like to highlight a few creation care resources that have been recommended to me or that I’ve found to be useful. 1. Making Peace with the Land. I read this book with Tara last summer...
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 Bill Haley | Apr 2, 2016 | Creation, Spiritual Direction
It wasn’t too long after Bill and Tara Haley moved to Corhaven in the Shenandoah Valley and began hosting spiritual retreats that they realized that when you create the space for God to show up, he shows up! It makes sense. When one of his beloved sons or daughters...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Mar 15, 2016 | Creation
I’ve been feeling restless recently. I chalked it up to the fact that it was my last semester of grad school and that I was juggling a demanding part-time job with school work and decisions about the future. That it was just this season and my circumstances –...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Sep 8, 2015 | Creation
While I was interning with Coracle at Corhaven, Bill asked me to write about the connection between spiritual formation and creation care. And after a bit of thinking, and writing, I’ve come to this conclusion: that creation care is spiritual formation. End stop. When...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Sep 2, 2015 | Creation
Too often we might think of “creation care” as something that we can opt to do – something for people with a natural “green thumb,” a desire to garden or an environmentalist impulse. We can easily forget that creation care is both a mandate from God and a form of...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Aug 27, 2015 | Creation
Below is a list of articles (in quotations) and books (italicized) for those who are interested in learning more about creation care. -Abigail Hull On the theology behind Creation Care “Wendell Berry, the Christian Soul and Creation...
by Coracle | Aug 10, 2015 | Contemplative Life, Creation, For the World
This article was originally posted to First Things. John Murdoch is a great friend of Coracle, God, and the earth…find out more about him here. The Pope And The Plowman: The Rhetorical Rendezvous of Francis and Wendell Berry After you exit the interstate and...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Jun 25, 2015 | Creation
Tara and I cleaned out the chicken coop this week – and by “cleaned out,” I mean deep-cleaned, the kind of cleaning you do once a year with brushes that scour and lots of bleach. In this case, we didn’t use bleach because a batch of fifteen new baby chicks is on its...
by Sarah Kohrs | May 27, 2015 | Creation, Justice and Mercy
As we gathered up the tools, rain splattered the tarp, stretched tightly across the tools on the Haley’s farm truck. Rain doused the orange flames, which sizzled and popped among the remaining embers of the burn pile. Rain drenched like a cleansing shower as I took...
by Tara Haley | May 1, 2015 | Contemplative Life, Creation
“With or without your hard work God is always moving in your life. Wait on the Holy, wait and receive the gifts that come.” Gunilla Norris from A Mystic Garden Spring and I have become much better friends since moving to Corhaven nearly 6 years ago. The chilled air,...
by Coracle | Dec 16, 2014 | Creation
Tara served an outstanding soup at the Advent Retreat this year. After several requests for the recipe, we are excited to share it with more people. It sounds good, and tastes delicious. Thank you Tara! Carrot Soup with Parmesan Crisps Serves 6 1 ounce...
by Coracle | Oct 30, 2014 | Creation
In the past few weeks, we’ve had a steady stream of folks at Corhaven coming for retreats, or more specifically, coming to meet with God. And God met them! The tag-line describing Corhaven has been from the very beginning “A place to meet God–A place to be met by...
