by Coracle | Dec 18, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Dr. Scott Buresh (Coracle Baltimore Minister) transports us back to before time began, when the Trinity dwelled together in love, planning and preparing for our creation and all it would cost. Drawing on...
by Coracle | Dec 11, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Jan Haugen (Docent, National Gallery of Art) guides us through a time observing and reflecting upon The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. She helps us appreciate the theological valence of the...
by Bill Haley | Dec 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley offers a distinction between songs for Christmas and songs for Advent. He invites us to sit with the anticipatory yearning and musical beauty of six of the season’s most beautiful songs,...
by Ken Wettig | Nov 26, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Last Friday I, probably like you, heard the news story of 315 Nigerian children being abducted from their Catholic school by armed militants in want of ransom money. As I thought about this upcoming Advent themed article I had been planning, I felt myself growing...
by Coracle | Nov 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Wanda Bickers (Coracle Spiritual Director) helps us prepare for the Advent season by guiding us through a space visio divina focused on Rembrandt’s “Simeon in the Temple.” The painting draws us...
by Jessica Clark | Nov 5, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
A few weeks ago I was worshiping in chilly stone churches in England, seeing my breath in the air as I joined in the responses and prayers. Morning prayer always including the Song of Zechariah, and evening prayer the Song of Mary. These two prayers Luke records for...
by Bill Haley | Apr 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Around this time two years ago, a friend gifted me with an insight that was not hers, but rather from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”: “Let him Easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us.” Easter as a verb! Wow!...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Apr 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Amy Boucher Pye (Author & Spiritual Director) guides us through the first half of Passion Week. She helps us slow down and attend to Jesus’ intentionality through a turbulent week— from his anointing at Bethany and...
by Coracle | Apr 11, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Rev. Anne Grizzle (Spiritual Director) guides us through a reflective overview of the events of Holy Week. From the Triumphal Entry to the thief on the Cross, Anne invites us to prepare our hearts to fully immerse ourselves...
by Coracle | Apr 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Lent” devotional, Terry Timm (Pastor, Author, Coach) guides us through Jesus’ three temptations in the wilderness, a classic framing for the Lenten season. He demonstrates how ubiquitous Satan’s three temptations are in...
by Bill Haley | Jan 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into an immersive encounter with the classic Christmas hymn, “O Holy Night.” By prayerfully engaging the lyrics and beholding two different...
by Coracle | Dec 20, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Kathy Bruce guides us into an imaginative reflection on Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem. What might they have talked about? How might they have reflected on their prior year? Their future? Kathy...
by Coracle | Dec 13, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, artist and author, Bette Lynne Dickinson, guides us into a visio divina based on her work, “Prepare the Way.” This painting foregrounds the birth of John the Baptist and highlights his central role...
by Scott Buresh | Dec 10, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
I find rest in the restorative flow of God’s created rhythms; the cyclical repetition of days, months, and seasons; and the rhythms of birth, growth, and aging that mark our lives. I also cherish recurring anniversaries and designated days of remembrance and...
by Ken Wettig | Nov 26, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
“They were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.” – Hebrews 11 “After I became a Christian, I understood why I’ve always been homesick at home.” – G.K Chesterton, Orthodoxy What child, no matter how virtuous they may be, after opening...
by Holly Scarberry | May 8, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
This Sunday we celebrate Ascension Sunday! This is a time when many Christians celebrate the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven. But what does Jesus’ ascension into heaven mean for us? Henri Nouwen offers a hopeful reflection on Jesus as the prodigal Son, who not...
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...
