by Coracle | Sep 24, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
A poem by Julie Harrison Eastwood Written during the first Coracle Fellowship retreat in January, on a grassy little island just big enough to sit on, beside the water. Forgiveness is Love, said the winter-swollen creek. Impatience is the brush-tinder for every bad...
by Coracle | Sep 23, 2019 | Contemplative Life
In mid-May of this year, 2019 Coracle Fellow and accomplished painter, Carolyn Marshall Wright, sustained a serious concussion. The injury, from which she is still recovering, left her largely confined to her home for the next four months, where she alternated between...
by Bill Haley | Sep 20, 2019 | Creation
It was surely a surprise 10 years ago when God invited us to move from the inner-city of DC to rural Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. It was unexpected, and unexpectedly good, a grace. It was as if the Lord was saying to us, “Thank you for your heart and service...
by Bill Haley | Sep 17, 2019 | Contemplative Life
I imagine that many of you, like me, did not come from a sacramental tradition. Perhaps you find yourself in one now and still have questions when it comes time on Sunday for “Communion,” “The Lord’s Supper,” “The...
by Kelly Gould | Sep 10, 2019 | Contemplative Life
As we approach the halfway point of a year of gathering together, I reflect on what I thought this year would be and what its reality has been. When I discovered the Fellows program, by accident really, I immediately heard God whisper my name, “Kelly, this is what we...
by Coracle | Sep 3, 2019 | Justice and Mercy
by Jacalyn Barnes, Director of the Repentance Project This is the question that resonated in my own heart as our country’s legacy of slavery and racism began to erupt in explosions of violence and terror. I turned to the Scriptures and wept. From the Old Testament to...
by Bill Haley | Aug 30, 2019 | Vocation
Happy Labor Day weekend, friends! Some years ago, I wrote this for the Washington Post, and I hope that in reading it for the first time or re-reading it, you’ll be reminded deeply and again that your work is one of the main ways God does his work in the world. Take...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Aug 27, 2019 | Contemplative Life
My husband and I live on an Air Force base, and a few weeks ago, I went for an afternoon walk along the trail that circles the runway. I had just purchased a jogging stroller from my sister’s neighbor and wanted to give it a try, but the timing was terrible and the...
by Karla Petty | Aug 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
I. Kyrie II. Gloria III. Credo IV. Sanctus and Benedictus V. Agnus Dei We’ve just finished another Coracle pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This time, we walked along the Camino Portuguese using the Coastal Route option. It leads you for...
by Coracle | Aug 14, 2019 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
As some of you may know, this October a team from Coracle will be traveling to Guatemala and then to El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to visit with and learn from the men and women seeking refuge in this country, as well as those who are striving to love and support that...
by Coracle | Aug 14, 2019 | Coracle News
by Lori Smith “Jesus is here and He is loving you,” Bill said to me as I began my retreat out at Corhaven several years back. It was a message I couldn’t fully embrace yet. I knew God loved me, I’d known that for as long as I could remember. BUT … there had...
by Coracle | Jul 29, 2019 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life
Father James has been my spiritual director for over 20 years, and my life is unrecognizable without his ministry (see more about that here in “What is Spiritual Direction”). In a recent session we were talking about the polarized moment our country is living...
by Drew Masterson | Jul 25, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
Before you read the quote from C.S. Lewis below, I highly recommend that you watch this performance of J.S. Bach’s Fugue in G Minor, commonly called the Little Fugue. Pay attention to how the opening lines of the piece ripple through different registers of the...
by Bill Haley | Jul 18, 2019 | Contemplative Life
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking to about 20 college students from The Falls Church Anglican who were back for the summer or getting ready to enter freshman year. I was basically told ‘talk about whatever you’d like,’ so I chose to reflect back...
by Karla Petty | Jul 15, 2019 | Contemplative Life
It was a dark room with about 16 other people in it. Unseasonably hot outside, the air conditioning was going full blast, and I shivered under a duct as I awaited Rose Cousins, Canadian singer/songwriter, at a small venue in suburbia. Her 2017 release Natural...
by Coracle | Jul 10, 2019 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
On our upcoming trip to Guatemala, we are thrilled to be working closely with Nate Bacon, a missionary serving on InnerCHANGE’s Guatemala Team. If you would like to learn more about the beautiful and immensely important work Nate and InnerCHANGE are doing in...
by Bill Haley | Jul 10, 2019 | Coracle News, For the World, Justice and Mercy
In October, Coracle is going to Guatemala and then on to the border between Texas and Mexico in El Paso and Juarez. On one level, this trip has been years in the making, on another level it is timely, if not a bit late. But it is the Holy Spirit’s time, of that I am...
by Coracle | Jul 7, 2019 | Contemplative Life
Alice Findler, a 2018 graduate of the Coracle Fellowship, took the opportunity to draw her passion for photographing the natural world together with her love of Psalm 148. Here is what she had to say about her endeavor: This project is an appreciation of the Lord’s...
by Bill Haley | Jul 5, 2019 | Church Unity, For the World, Justice and Mercy
This past Sunday I preached at The Falls Church Anglican on one of the most confusing and important verses in the Bible: Colossians 1.24 “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the...
by Drew Masterson | Jul 1, 2019 | Creation, For the World, Justice and Mercy, Peacemaking, Pilgrimage, Vocation
Whether you are new to the Coracle community or have been journeying with Coracle for a decade, at some point I imagine you have been struck by the broad array of offerings and causes this ministry has chosen to make available and to pursue. I might as well list them...
