by Bill Haley | Sep 11, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Late last year I felt led to try to stay closer to the Desert Fathers and Mothers, those Christians from around the southeastern Mediterranean basin in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Their desire for union with God and a God-ly life led them to great renunciations, much...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into a reflection on Matthew 14 and the story of Jesus walking on the water. He draws our attention to Jesus’ 5 remarks during this episode, using them as...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Justice and Mercy
Two steps forward, one step back. Three steps forward, two steps back. That’s how progress towards racial justice and healing in America can seem. So what does a follower of Jesus who longs for the Kingdom of God to come and for the Beloved Community to become real...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 3, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
I’ve long been drawn by the Celtic Christians’ awareness of thin places, moments or spaces where the veil between heaven and earth becomes more transparent. Over the past 9 years I have personally experienced the sacredness of Iona and Holy Island/Lindisfarne in...
by Scott Buresh | Aug 29, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dr. Scott Buresh (Coracle Community Minister) draws together insights on life’s “Thresholds” from John O’Donohue with images and insights from a recent pilgrimage in the UK. As we enter the fall, we...
by Bill Haley | Aug 28, 2024 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Jesus asked a man who’d been lame for 38 years a powerful question in John 5, “Do you want to be well?” Early this past June, we partnered with the Center for Formation, Justice, and Peace to humbly and soberly look at three assumptions that were present in the...
by Margot Eyring | Aug 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us through a time of locus divina. Flowing out of the practices of lectio and visio divina, locus divina enables us to appreciate the space we currently are...
by Ken Wettig | Aug 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) invites us to consider the Biblical definition of rest and its central importance to abundant life with God. He guides us through a “life audit” so that we can see more...
by Scott Buresh | Aug 14, 2024 | Pilgrimage
**Coracle is leading a Maryland Slavery Pilgrimage on September 7th & 8th (this event is full) and also a Racial History & Activism Pilgrimage in Arlington on October 19th. If you would like to learn more about future pilgrimages in Maryland and/or sign up...
by Coracle | Aug 9, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dr. Barbara Peacock (Spiritual Director and Author) invites us to consider the core elements of prayer—its foundation, movements, and posture. We hope you will come to a deeper appreciation of your need for God and God’s...
by Bill Haley | Jul 30, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley guides us into a meditation on fire. Tracing the theme of fire through scripture, Bill helps us wrestle with our invitation to be both purified and illuminated by God’s fire of love. EXPLORE Past...
by Scott Buresh | Jul 23, 2024 | Coracle News
The Coracle Fellowship in Baltimore starts its third cohort in person on Saturday, September 14th and we hope you can join us! This time, instead of taking 20 months for this powerful journey of spiritual formation and transformation, we’re doing it in 10 months. We...
by Coracle | Jul 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
by: Roena Clarke It was April 1985. I remember it like it was yesterday. My parents and I, and my brother Jimmy, who was 25 years old and in his last days of battling cancer, were headed to Pennsylvania for a fast -pitch softball tournament. Jimmy was an incredible...
by Rick Mastroianni | Jul 23, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rick Mastroianni (Coracle Spiritual Director) introduces us to the ancient Latin hymn “Ubi Caritas.” He invites us to consider how this hymn can 1) root our imaginations and hopes in the sacrificial love...
by Coracle | Jul 19, 2024 | Peacemaking
In this Soundings Seminar Conversation hosted at Restoration Anglican Church, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) interviews Dr. John Inazu (Washington University Professor) on his new book, Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences...
by Bill Haley | Jul 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life
It’s only been a couple of weeks since I felt led to offer a “how to stay grounded and peaceful in God” reflection. And then these past few days, phew! And that’s just the United States, not to mention Ukraine and Gaza and places of war and other places and people...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Jul 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Kristy Wallace Grant (Coracle Ministry Center Coordinator) guides us into a time to wrestle with the tension between our perception of the world and God’s reality. Starting with the bleakness of...
by Drew Masterson | Jul 14, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Drew Masterson (UVA Center for Christian Study) guides us into a reflection on a children’s book offering a creative reimagining of St. Francis’ famous prayer, “The Canticle of the Creatures.” Both...
by Bill Haley | Jul 10, 2024 | Contemplative Life
I seem to not be able to escape them, Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood. Their stories are told Mark 5.21-43 and Luke 8.40-56. She was in the gospel reading for our Wednesday Noon Eucharist last week, she is in the gospel reading for our healing Eucharist...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Jul 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Amy Boucher Pye (Author and Spiritual Director) guides us into a series of reflections on art and scripture designed to help us know and experience the loving gaze of God our Father. May we all heed Amy’s...
