by Bill Haley | Dec 10, 2025 | Coracle News
Friends, as I mentioned last week, we’re delighted to offer our vision for 2026– “Building the Fire”. I’m tempted to write a lot here, but we say it all in the document so I won’t steal its thunder and instead would genuinely and sincerely ask you to...
by Bill Haley | Dec 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons, Space for God with Bill
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 Bill Haley | Dec 3, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow-pilgrims, Around this time last year I wrote to you that 2025 looked like it was going to be challenging and full of uncertainty. Halfway through the year, I wrote to you that the world seemed to be getting darker by the day. Well…all of that...
by Amy Boucher Pye | Nov 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God,” Amy Boucher Pye (Author and Spiritual Director) guides us into a reflection on the distinctive style of contemplative prayer practiced by Julian of Norwich. She draws especially from Karen Dibbens-Wyatt, who has suffered for...
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 Bill Haley | Nov 24, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Some years ago, Rev. Bill Haley was invited to lead a retreat for Christ Church Austin on a topic of his choosing. Unsurprisingly, he chose to explore “Spiritual Formation for Kingdom Action,” and over the course of 5 keynote lectures, he cast an...
by Coracle | Nov 21, 2025 | Coracle News
Peace. Refuge. Safety. Sanctuary. Sacred. Rest. Beauty. Presence. Welcome. Hospitality. Bounty. Love. These are some of the words we hear most often from visitors to Corhaven. Since 2009, we have welcomed thousands to this place of “rest for the heart.”...
by Coracle | Nov 20, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Zoe Hansen (Spiritual Director and Retreat Facilitator) invites us to meditate on the concept and experience of joy as we approach the holiday season. She breathes life into C.S. Lewis’ somewhat heady...
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 Bill Haley | Nov 7, 2025 | Church Unity, For the World, Justice and Mercy
I’m so glad that the Repentance Project, the Racial Reconciliation Group, and Coracle have been offering a book study this fall on Jemar Tisby’s The Spirit of Justice. Participation has been robust and the conversations have been rich. Jemar has a lot of important...
by Margot Eyring | Nov 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us into a reflection on the upcoming holiday season and the many pressures and expectations that tend to come with the season. She gives us space to process...
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 | Oct 30, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage, Space for God with Bill
In this “Space for God: Beauty,” Rev. Bill Haley guides us through some photos from a recent trip he took to Spain. Starting with some reflections on Antoní Gaudí’s masterful basilica, La Sagrada Familia, Bill then takes us along El Camino de...
by Bill Haley | Oct 29, 2025 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life
Around noon on Thursday October 16, Coracle offered our monthly zoom discussion “Questions That Matter”. The question for that day was “How do you handle disillusionment as it relates to the church and certain Christian leaders?” Then, unexpectedly, a couple hours...
by Coracle | Oct 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Bethany Blankespoor (Pastor) guides us into the life and prayer practice of Saint Clare of Assisi. A contemporary of Saint Francis, St. Clare developed a unique way of praying through the life of Jesus, and Bethany...
by Coracle | Oct 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Anne Grizzle (Pastor & Spiritual Director) helps us consider what it would look like to live our whole lives aware of the presence of the almighty, living God inside us. She shares wisdom from wise men and women of the faith,...
by Coracle | Oct 10, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Roena Clarke takes us with her to the rim of the Grand Canyon, a site of numerous deep encounters with God throughout her adult life. Through the story of Moses, she guides us into a time of honest reflection on...
by Coracle | Oct 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life
by Jeannie Rose Barksdale | Founder of Tangible & Spiritual Director “How can you tell a story about something ordinary that would be very interesting?” This was a friend’s honest question in response to my invitations—over summer months in the liturgical calendar...
by Coracle | Oct 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a time of contemplative writing. Unlike other forms of devotional writing, contemplative writing is meant to be shared as a witness to God’s loving sovereignty and...
by NaTasha Brown | Oct 2, 2025 | For the World
In a world that grows louder with conflict and confusion, the God-given right to speak is under pressure. As followers of Christ, we must hold fast not only to our right to speak truth but to do so in love. The legal right to express one’s thoughts, even when they’re...
