by Coracle | Sep 18, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God” devotional, Wanda Bickers (Coracle Baltimore) guides us into a time to reflect upon how God’s glory and love can come alive to us through His creation. She shares photos and prompts from a recent beach vacation where she was powerfully...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
How fresh, oh Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! even as the flowers in spring; To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought...
by Scott Buresh | Sep 12, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Scott Buresh (Coracle Baltimore Director) guides us into a time of attending to God’s loving gaze on our lives. Through music, centering prayer, and a guided walk through of Psalm 16, he invites us to journey with...
by Bill Haley | Sep 5, 2025 | Contemplative Life, For the World, Justice and Mercy
I’m delighted that the Repentance Project and Coracle are partnering with The Racial Reconciliation Group (RRG) and Little Lights to offer this fall’s book club on Jemar Tisby’s “The Spirit of Justice”, led by NaTasha Brown and Kathy Bruce. Tisby was inspired to write...
by Margot Eyring | Sep 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us into a reflection on the storms of life and the mess they leave behind. Through listening prayer, embodied prayer, and attention to simple beauty, Margot...
by Coracle | Sep 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life
*On Sept 13th, and Nov 22nd. Coracle is inviting you to come out to Corhaven for 8hrs of freedom from the noise. The retreat will begin with a 30 minute spiritual practice together to recollect ourselves before God. From there retreatants will be given guidance for...
by Coracle | Aug 27, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Wanda Jones-Yeatman (Leadership Expert) guides us into a time of visio divina centered on “The Touch,” a painting by Aaron Hicks and Alan Hicks. The painting depicts the scene from Mark 5:21-34, when...
by Ken Wettig | Aug 24, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Ken Wettig (Corhaven Retreat Center Director) guides us through a series of prompts drawn from Corhaven’s annual “Encountering God in Creation” family retreat. He draws our attention to fire,...
by Ken Wettig | Aug 19, 2025 | Contemplative Life
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your heart – Phillipians 4:7 Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts. – Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front A cynic might tell us that any human heart...
by Coracle | Aug 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life, For the World
In this “Space for God” devotional, Nate Bacon (InnerCHANGE Missionary in Guatemala) shares a handful of difficult stories from the populations he works with in Central America, illustrating how difficult it can be sometimes to do the next right thing in a...
by Scott Buresh | Aug 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Can beauty save the world? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn took up this question posed by Dostoevsky in his nobel prize winning speech in 1970. Coming out of the horrors of the Soviet gulags, Solzhenitsyn found himself convinced that beauty expressed through art could in...
by Bill Haley | Aug 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley introduces us to the doctrine of continuous creation and its ability to shift our posture towards the natural world. Drawing upon Catholic Nun and theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s writings on...
by Drew Masterson | Aug 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Drew Masterson (Center for Christian Study) guides us into a time reflecting upon five Puritan prayers drawn from The Valley of Vision. These artfully constructed prayers are a feast of theological insight, spiritual...
by NaTasha Brown | Aug 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life, For the World, Justice and Mercy
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. Psalm 33:5 In times like these, it can be all too easy to focus on the overwhelming presence of darkness in the world. Evil, sin, and brokenness seem to surround us, and each day the...
by Coracle | Jul 25, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Jimeka Jones Setzer (Spiritual Companion) invites us to let a little joy into our lives by attending to and moving our bodies as an act of worship. She guides us into a “body scan” practice,...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 22, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.” – Brother Lawrence Initially it was the breakdown of civil engagement across...
by Coracle | Jul 17, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Vocation
In this “Space for God” devotional, Tracy Matthews (Attune to Grow) guides us through the “attunement cycle” her organization developed for their ministry and corporate clients. The cycle weaves together ancient Christian spiritual practices...
by Scott Buresh | Jul 14, 2025 | Contemplative Life
For three years, a band of women along with 12 men had the opportunity to literally walk with Jesus unhurried. They traveled by foot from village to village at a pace conducive to rich conversation as they took in the beauty of the surrounding countryside. We are...
by Coracle | Jul 11, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Dave Schmigdall (New Story Behavioral Health) guides us into a series of practices meant to help us attend to our bodies and to let them draw us deeper into connection with God and others. Weaving together his own story...
by Coracle | Jul 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
If you are interested in exploring the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in community, here are two upcoming opportunities: 1) Coracle Spiritual Director, Sharon Welsch, will be leading people through Dale Gish’s book, Beloved: A Journey of Prayer (A Taste of the Ignatian...
