by Jessica Clark | Apr 2, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Jessica Clark (Coracle Development Manager) guides us into a practice of Gospel Contemplation focused on John’s account of the Last Supper. She invites us to place ourselves imaginatively in the room with...
by Mary Gardner | Mar 28, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Rev. Mary Gardner (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a practice of Visio Divina, or “holy seeing,” focused on the events of Holy Week. She invites us to attend to diverse artistic depictions...
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 Bill Haley | Feb 13, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
For a long time I’ve liked to think of Lent as a coming home, a turning around from whatever takes me from God and a coming back home into the arms of the loving forgiveness of God. It’s a time to reflect on the subtleties of sin and sins in our own lives, for...
by Chris Lugo | Jan 20, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Chris Lugo (Coracle Community Minister) offers a helpful introduction to the season of Epiphany. He digs into the history and practice of Epiphany, the deeper meanings of the word Epiphany, and the powerful...
by Bill Haley | Jan 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are spending some time looking at the story of the Magi – specifically, highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics, and the Christian...
by Bill Haley | Jan 17, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Did you know that in the church year, Epiphany can be celebrated on a day, or for a whole season? This year I’m appreciating remembering that Jesus is the light of the world, the epiphany of God, who still shines, and wants to through us. That’s the invitation and...
by Bill Haley | Jan 11, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend some time looking at the story of the Magi – specifically, highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics, and the...
by Bill Haley | Jan 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend the next three Saturdays looking at the story of the Magi, specifically highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics,...
by Holly Scarberry | Dec 27, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
We are healed / The end begins, the tomb becomes a womb / For now in him all things are re-aligned. Like many of you I have long appreciated poet and priest, Malcolm Guite. His words have shaped my imagination for what it means to live in the Kingdom of God. Christmas...
by Jeff Lindeman | Dec 24, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Jeff Lindeman (Coracle Sr. Dir. of Strategy and Operations) invites us to immerse ourselves in the well-known story from Luke 2 of the Angelic Host appearing to the shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. Through visual...
by Bill Haley | Dec 22, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During the last week of Advent there are a special little group of prayers called the O Antiphons that the church has traditionally sung during Evening Prayer. The O Antiphons are seven distinct verses that all begin with a vocative “O” followed by a...
by Mary Gardner | Dec 16, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Mary Gardner (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into three spiritual practices focused on Mary’s famous prayer in Luke 1, the “Magnificat.” Using both lectio and visio divina, Mary helps us enter imaginatively into...
