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...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Technology has given us instant communication, unrivaled convenience, and most precious of all, longer lives with less drudgery. At the same time, technology has isolated us from each other, sowed political division, fueled inequality, spread pervasive pessimism,...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Corhaven Retreat Center Director) invites us to consider the difference between reflecting about the Trinity and conversing with the Trinity. He guides us into Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer and the...
by Scott Buresh | Jul 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Trinity Sunday” By Malcolm Guite In the Beginning, not in time or space, But in the quick before both space and time, In Life, in Love, in co-inherent Grace, In three in one and one in three, in rhyme, In music, in the whole creation story, In His own...
by Bill Haley | Jun 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Space for God with Bill
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley introduces us to simple yet powerful prayer, The Litany of Trust. Written by the Sisters of Life and distributed across the globe, the Litany invites us to confront our fears and insecurities,...
by Bill Haley | Jun 25, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Friends, what a remarkable time to be alive, what a privilege in days like this to be able to bear witness to the reality of the Risen, Living Christ and the God Who Is Love and the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus that is utterly different from any human kingdom, state, or...
by Coracle | Jun 20, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Andy McClain (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into the insights of a new book by Caroline Oakes called Practice the Pause: Jesus’ Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science, and What It Means to Be Fully...
by Bill Haley | Jun 18, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow-pilgrims, I am excited to write to you today with two big announcements! 1. We are launching The Coracle Center of Formation for Action, the clear vision of our ministry space here in Arlington, VA and across Coracle. (If you were at our events...
by Scott Buresh | Jun 13, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Scott Buresh (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into a time of reflecting on and hopefully experiencing the unique joy and peace that comes through a secure relationship with Jesus. Weaving together the latest...
by Bill Haley | Jun 11, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends, still basking in the glow of Pentecost, I offer you this from Wilfrid Stinissen: “The Spirit is not content with burning only in the center of your being. He longs to illumine and inflame your whole being so that you not only have a fire within you, but...
by Coracle | Jun 10, 2025 | Justice and Mercy
Kathy R. Williamson Bruce shares with Coracle, “Where Can I Go From Here? — Action, Advocacy, and Allyship”. Kathy serves on the Coracle Baltimore Core Team. Kathy has been called to set tables designed to tear down walls of racial division and...
by Margot Eyring | Jun 6, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Margot Eyring (Coracle Spiritual Direction Coordinator) guides us into a time of intentional attention—of gazing on the world around us in such a way that we perceive the beauty we are normally tempted to skip...
by NaTasha Brown | Jun 5, 2025 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
This month, all over the country, many people will gather to commemorate Juneteenth—June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation— with a complicated truth: we are...
by Coracle | Jun 4, 2025 | Coracle News
We are sad to share the news of the passing of Desiree Barker, one of Coracle’s early spiritual directors, on May 30 in Hoover, Alabama. Desiree was a beautiful and compassionate soul who deeply cared for others and accompanied many others on their deeper spiritual...
by Bill Haley | Jun 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
I hope that the weather where you live has been as interesting as here in the Washington area–unpredictable, unseasonable, and gorgeous. In recent months, nature has been speaking more deeply to me of God (for example, in the breathing trees). I’m grateful to be...
by Coracle | May 29, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) walks us through the difference between a disciplined prayer life and a disciple’s prayer life. Rather than settle for a rigid form of prayer, she invites us to...
by Coracle | May 28, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Few passages elicit a more emotional response from women than the Luke 10 story of Mary and Martha. As a spiritual director, when I meet with someone new, I often start with a Lectio Divina on that passage. Initially, my purpose in choosing this passage was to explore...
by Scott Buresh | May 27, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Love” by George Herbert LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack’d anything. ‘A guest,’ I answer’d,...
by Drew Masterson | May 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Drew Masterson (college minister) guides us through a few musical and poetic reflections on the Lord’s Prayer. We tend to grow overfamiliar with this most beloved prayer, and these artistic responses offer...
