Forming in 2026, the Coracle Community at Corhaven is an ecumenical, short to mid-term residential community formed in the spirit of Benedictine tradition with its rhythms of work, study, and prayer in community, focusing on ministries of 1) hospitality and spiritual retreat, 2) creation care and spirituality, and 3) justice and reconciliation.

Learn more and apply for residency here.

As it has since 2009, Corhaven offers individuals and groups a place focus on God through spiritual retreat. The 17-acre wooded property offers a network of trails, a creek with stations for prayer and reflection, fire pits with wood supplied, and a variety of other spaces to connect with God. Onsite people find Coracle-created booklets on various self-guided retreat experiences that can be used to enhance the retreat.

Learn more and book a retreat here.

“The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it!” (Psalm 24.1) 

Since 2009, Corhaven has been a place of actively caring for creation as an act of Christian discipleship. We now see that, while this discipleship continues, Corhaven is also well suited to care for just this specific little bit of 17 acres of creation itself, for creation’s sake itself. It is literally to care for creation, in this case a specific plot of land and all that grows on it, as an act of compassion towards the earth. Further we see that Corhaven is a powerful place for people to encounter the Creator directly through creation.

Creation Care as Christian Practice: Creation is among God’s great gifts to all of us creatures. Speaking biblically and theologically, one of the glories of humankind is to care for and steward creation on God’s behalf, such is fundamental to our vocation and dignity as humans and especially Christians (Gen 1.26, 2.15). The orientation towards creation care for Christians is good, basic, and simple theology. On its own this is justification enough to look at Corhaven through the lens of a place to simply care for this specific 17 acres of God’s good earth to bear witness to the God who made it, who loves it, and who calls us to care for creation.  Corhaven is a perfect place for the Christian discipline of caring for creation.

Creation as God’s Ongoing Revelation: Creation is also a place for the ongoing revelation of God (Romans 1.19-20).  Even with the Incarnation of Jesus, creation has never stopped revealing God as it has from the beginning, as much after the Incarnation as it was before.  “Sacred writings are bound in two volumes—that of creation and that of Holy Scripture” (Aquinas).  “Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead He set before your eyes the things that He had made” (Augustine). As a place that is 17 acres of pure nature and beauty, Corhaven is a perfect place for people to understand God through the things that God has made, to be the recipient of God’s ongoing revelations through creation.

Creation for Encounter with God: God is the source of life of all living things and all created things (Ps 104.29-30, Acts 17.25). Creation itself is a manifestation and overflow of the life and love of God. Especially when we are in creation, we are constantly surrounded by the ongoing emanation of God.  This means that creation creates an ideal place for encounters with God who is constantly and actively creating. Corhaven is a perfect place for people to have encounters with the living God through creation which God is actively sustaining by God’s own Spirit.

The Corhaven Graveyard is an historic burial ground for enslaved people that has been developed into a sacred site of remembrance and reconciliation. All are welcome to visit and reflect in the memorial garden that is dedicated to honoring the enslaved African Americans who originally worked this land. The Corhaven Graveyard along with The Repentance Project contributes to a larger conversation about racial reconciliation that is an ongoing aspect of Coracle’s work.

Jesus modeled diving into great pain to bring great healing, and this inspires us to be agents of healing where there is brokenness, reconciliation where there is division, and justice where there is injustice. The wounds inflicted by centuries of racial injustice are deep and persist in pervasive ways throughout America, and it falls especially to Christians to be reconcilers, following the example of Jesus. We seek to be agents of reconciliation and healing through the work of the Corhaven Graveyard and the Repentance Project, caring for the graveyard,  hosting events and discussions, and building real relationships across racial divides.