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...
by Bill Haley | Jul 3, 2024 | Church Unity
With Incarnation Anglican Church and the Revs Amy Rowe and Katie Hamlin, Coracle offered a healing Eucharist service for those who have been wounded by the church on Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm in our ministry center at Greenbrier Baptist Church in Arlington, VA. You...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 1, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Truly we are excited about the various ways that God has been at work in and through Corhaven here in the valley in the last months. From hosting immigrants and refugee middle school youth for SLAQ’s Newcomer Adventure Day Camp, to seeing individuals and...
by Coracle | Jun 28, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
In this “Space for God” devotional, Kathy Bruce guides us into a reflection on The Emancipation Tree in Hampton, VA. Weaving together scripture and story, she invites us to consider how we might deepen our spiritual roots to persevere in God’s work...
by Coracle | Jun 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Anne Grizzle (author & Spiritual Director) guides us through a reflection on cultivating our hearts’ longing for the beauty of the Lord, anchored in Psalm 27. She weaves together a handful of prayer practices to...
by Ken Wettig | Jun 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Join us August 2nd-3rd for 24 hours as a gathering of men seeking Jesus explore together what it might mean to be a faithful man today through our Fathers & First Things open retreat at Corhaven. Q: Do I need to be a father to participate? A: You do not need to be...
by Ken Wettig | Jun 14, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through a reflection on fear, in the Biblical story and in our lives. Focusing on the story of Abraham, Ken unpacks how God consistently calls his people to live lives...
by Bill Haley | Jun 12, 2024 | Contemplative Life, For the World, Peacemaking
It’s still difficult to find words to adequately describe our recent solidarity trip to Israel and Palestine. I’m so grateful that Todd Deatherage did such a good job capturing so much of our trip in his recent reflection and also our conversation, it saves me from...
by Chris Lugo | Jun 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE,” Rev. Chris Lugo (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into a reflection on Hebrews 10. This powerful passage offers us a way of being together that we desperately need in a time of political polarization and social...
by Coracle | Jun 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life, For the World
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” former missionary and bishop Roy Hange guides us into a reflection on the beauty of holiness, drawing deeply from his decade spent ministering to Middle Eastern churches. He roots our time in 1 Peter 1:3-9, a soaring...
by Bill Haley | Jun 4, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Friends, it’s been a dizzying few weeks with current events and the news cycle. I wonder if you too catch yourself feeling emotionally and intellectually seasick? It’s a lot to keep track of, it’s a lot to feel, it’s a lot to hold. Here’s just a short and...
by Coracle | May 26, 2024 | Justice and Mercy
He has shown you, O man, what is good;And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?Micah 6:8 NKJVLive Justly, Love, Mercy, Walk Humbly…These are three instructions we have received from our Lord about how to...
