by Chris Lugo | Jan 19, 2024 | Coracle News
Many of you may not know that my parents immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970’s. My mother was brought by my grandmother in her teens while my father escaped through joining the military. Both came from poverty and neither knew English very well when they came to the...
by Ken Wettig | Jan 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Ken Wettig (Coracle Community Minister) guides us into the famous story of Moses encountering God through the burning bush from Exodus 3. He encourages us to resist the temptation to get so caught up in our...
by Bill Haley | Jan 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are spending some time looking at the story of the Magi – specifically, highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics, and the Christian...
by Bill Haley | Jan 17, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Did you know that in the church year, Epiphany can be celebrated on a day, or for a whole season? This year I’m appreciating remembering that Jesus is the light of the world, the epiphany of God, who still shines, and wants to through us. That’s the invitation and...
by Coracle | Jan 13, 2024 | Justice and Mercy
He has shown you, O man, what is good;And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?Micah 6:8 NKJV Live Justly, Love, Mercy, Walk Humbly… These are three instructions that we have received from our Lord...
by Coracle | Jan 12, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Dan Marotta (Author and pastor) guides us into the grand story of the Bible—Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation. He helps us understand how we might move from simply believing this story to actively participating in...
by Bill Haley | Jan 11, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend some time looking at the story of the Magi – specifically, highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics, and the...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Jan 10, 2024 | For the World
Happy New Year!! Anyone who knows me knows that I love the beginning of a new year. A new year is full of the excitement of possibilities. As we sit at the beginning of this new year, I can assure you that what we, at the Repentance Project, have in store for 2024...
by Bill Haley | Jan 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend the next three Saturdays looking at the story of the Magi, specifically highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics,...
by Ken Wettig | Jan 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life, For the World
This Saturday, Jan 6th is the feast of Epiphany, a day in the church calendar which commemorates the revelation of Christ to the gentile world, through the magi. Three years ago, on January 6th 2021 many followers of Jesus found themselves experiencing an Epiphany...
by Coracle | Jan 4, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) invites you to step deeper into God this new year by crafting your own daily “little liturgy.” Drawn from the historic movements of Christian worship, Bill guides...
by Bill Haley | Jan 3, 2024 | Coracle News
Friends, 2024 is upon us, what will be an interesting year to be sure, full of graces and challenges. Throughout the Advent and Christmas readings we all just heard, you probably noticed the angel messengers always led with “Fear not”, a timeless word that happens to...
by Holly Scarberry | Dec 27, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
We are healed / The end begins, the tomb becomes a womb / For now in him all things are re-aligned. Like many of you I have long appreciated poet and priest, Malcolm Guite. His words have shaped my imagination for what it means to live in the Kingdom of God. Christmas...
by Jeff Lindeman | Dec 24, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Jeff Lindeman (Coracle Sr. Dir. of Strategy and Operations) invites us to immerse ourselves in the well-known story from Luke 2 of the Angelic Host appearing to the shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus. Through visual...
by Bill Haley | Dec 22, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During the last week of Advent there are a special little group of prayers called the O Antiphons that the church has traditionally sung during Evening Prayer. The O Antiphons are seven distinct verses that all begin with a vocative “O” followed by a...
by NaTasha Brown | Dec 19, 2023 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 NKJV April 15th 2023 in the back of St. Moses Church in Baltimore, Maryland, US was the day that my understanding...
by Mary Gardner | Dec 16, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Mary Gardner (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into three spiritual practices focused on Mary’s famous prayer in Luke 1, the “Magnificat.” Using both lectio and visio divina, Mary helps us enter imaginatively into...
by Coracle | Dec 14, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Debra Donnelly-Barton (Coracle Spiritual Director) guides us into a Visio Divina drawing on the story of the Annunciation. She utilizes a modern icon from a Ukranian artist to help us encounter this familiar story afresh...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Dec 13, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent,” Kristy Wallace Grant (Repentance Project Director) guides us into a practice of lectio divina focused on Isaiah 45:3. She helps us appreciate more deeply the attention paid to darkness in the Advent season and enter more...
by Jeff Lindeman | Dec 12, 2023 | Contemplative Life
In all of history there has been one night that was completely unlike any other. The night when Jesus, the Son of God, became flesh and lived among us. The first verse of the carol O Holy Night’s elegantly expresses what happened that night: O holy night, the stars...
