by Coracle | Oct 4, 2015 | Coracle News
Adventure. Challenge. Fear. Wonder. Risk. Beauty. Pain. Transformation. Joy. God. Journey. And quiet Awe. Several years now into the thing that is Coracle, looking back, these are words that indeed reflect what we’ve experienced, and so many others now. And we’re as...
by Coracle | Oct 3, 2015 | Spiritual Direction
The following post was originally posted on this site by Yonce Shelton (Spiritual Director with Coracle). “The Scream” is a well known painting by Edvard Munch. Whether you think it scary, unnerving, confusing or something else, it presents an element of real life....
by Bill Haley | Oct 2, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Skye by Bill Haley Skye crouched in the corner like a coiled spring, his little balled up body so small it was almost hidden despite no solid thing to cover or shield him. The walls on either side gave no inch though he tried to pinch more tightly in, not yet having...
by Bill Haley | Sep 29, 2015 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
It’s one of the greatest pictures and promises in the Bible, and for many of us, one of the most frustrating. The picture and promise is that God speaks, and that he speaks to each one of us. Implied in this is that we can hear him. And that’s where the...
by Bill Haley | Sep 25, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Matthew 14 by Bill Haley Your face is hidden by the water wall While howling wind drowns the echoes of the call “Come.” I came to follow, not to fall Yet sink I do! Why bid Then hide in the hour I most need You? “After seeing, do you not see? Is...
by Tara Haley | Sep 22, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Let’s face it, If you have been to Corhaven, you have experienced God through the food you have tasted. ‘Lunch by Tara’ has even become – a thing. That’s amazing, and so is God’s creation. Those things kind of go hand in hand....
by Coracle | Sep 20, 2015 | Justice and Mercy
John Murdock is a friend of ours who recently published an article, Pope’s Creation Teachings Nothing New for Francis Schaeffer Fans, in Christianity Today. The article is about the Pope’s recent Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You), and connects Catholics...
by Bill Haley | Sep 18, 2015 | Contemplative Life
A Divine Love Song by Bill Haley In the dark of night, You are with me In the breaking dawn, You are with me In the violent story, You are with me In the brightest sun, I love You I see You in the trees I see You in the stream I feel You in the morning breeze And I...
by Bill Haley | Sep 14, 2015 | Contemplative Life
A couple of years ago, Bill Haley led a weekend retreat at Christ Church Austin in Texas on “Spiritual Formation for Kingdom Action”. Here are the five talks. Coracle · 1. Contemplatives In The Heart Of The World Coracle · 2. The Kingdom Of God...
by Bill Haley | Sep 11, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Sleepers, Awake! by Bill Haley Sometimes I don’t want to sleep, Because it’s all too wonderful. I sit and ponder nothing And everything at once. I hold my longings unlisted with an open heart And trust the Brooding One, who is here To hear And prod me when my eyelids...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Sep 8, 2015 | Creation
While I was interning with Coracle at Corhaven, Bill asked me to write about the connection between spiritual formation and creation care. And after a bit of thinking, and writing, I’ve come to this conclusion: that creation care is spiritual formation. End stop. When...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Sep 2, 2015 | Creation
Too often we might think of “creation care” as something that we can opt to do – something for people with a natural “green thumb,” a desire to garden or an environmentalist impulse. We can easily forget that creation care is both a mandate from God and a form of...
by Gabriel Dodd | Aug 31, 2015 | Contemplative Life
In early August, I accepted a full time position as Pastor of Youth and Young Families at Montezuma Church of the Brethren in Dayton, VA. Beginning on September 15 I will be working full time at the church, and will be part time at school finishing my MDiV. This is...
by Bill Haley | Aug 29, 2015 | Coracle News
I’ve lost count of how many years (OK, not really…19 years) that Carol Jackson has been a dear friend to me, a partner in ministry, and deep sister in the Lord. We teamed up on so many projects at The Falls Church that I (honestly this time) actually have lost...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Aug 27, 2015 | Creation
Below is a list of articles (in quotations) and books (italicized) for those who are interested in learning more about creation care. -Abigail Hull On the theology behind Creation Care “Wendell Berry, the Christian Soul and Creation...
by Coracle | Aug 25, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Here is a post by a friend of ours about a reflective prayer practice called the Examen Prayer. It is a powerful way to recognize God in our everyday activities. This Summer I Prayed the Examen by Abby Deatherage This summer, by happenstance and friends-of-friends...
by Chrissy Koach | Aug 19, 2015 | Contemplative Life
Sensory clutter surrounds us. Extremely sensitive to it, I’ve used toilet paper from public rest rooms to plug my ears in school hallways, coffee shops, and grocery stores. Why is so much “nothing” available, and why at such loud volumes, in such bright colors? And...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Aug 13, 2015 | Spiritual Direction
The goal of spiritual formation is what our Eastern Orthodox brothers and sisters like to call “theosis,” or union with God: Christ taking up residence so fully within us that, in the words of Paul, “it is no longer [we] who live but Christ who lives in [us]”...
by Coracle | Aug 10, 2015 | Contemplative Life, Creation, For the World
This article was originally posted to First Things. John Murdoch is a great friend of Coracle, God, and the earth…find out more about him here. The Pope And The Plowman: The Rhetorical Rendezvous of Francis and Wendell Berry After you exit the interstate and...
by Bill Haley | Aug 6, 2015 | Coracle News
Dear fellow-pilgrims, as is often with these letters, I like to finish by offering a deep treat at the end, so read all the way to the and find out what it is this time. And as you know, from time to time I like to offer a more personal letter to let you know of...
