Spiritual Formation
for Kingdom Action®
Audio, Video, and Written Resources assembled topically for your spiritual flourishing
We offer retreats for individuals and groups in every season & stage of their spiritual journey
Explore our network of Spiritual Directors, trained to be a listening, prayerful presence in your journey with God
Learn more about the areas of our broken world where we seek to bring God’s redeeming presence
Our communities in Northern Virginia, Baltimore, the Shenandoah Valley, and Online gather regularly to practice spiritual disciplines and engage the brokenness of the world
Major Initiatives
The Corhaven
Graveyard
An historic burial ground for African-Americans that remembers and honors the deceased and helps cultivate opportunities that look to the future with hope, peace, and justice for all people
A business and ministry of Coracle that offers thoughtfully-conceived products that are crafted with love and made in a way that upholds our hope for the “common good”
A program that seeks to bring racial healing in the US by offering “An American Lent,” a 50-day online tool aimed at helping participants begin to really RECOGNIZE the persistent legacy of slavery, REPENT with sorrow, and RESPOND meaningfully, in the context of RELATIONSHIPS
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Embracing God’s love for you
Most Thursday evenings, throughout winter and spring, I’ve joined a listening prayer cohort at a local-to-me urban retreat center (I reside outside of Seattle, WA), which has provided a restful pause to the week’s activities. Guided by a spiritual director, we reflect...
read more“Sitting with Our Good Shepherd” with Laura Merricks
In this "Space for God" devotional, Laura Merricks (Spiritual Director) guides us into a time of visio and lectio divina centered around the image of Jesus as our good shepherd. She traces this image through scripture and then invites us to dwell on it...
read moreMay Christ “Easter” in us!
Around this time two years ago, a friend gifted me with an insight that was not hers, but rather from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”: "Let him Easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us." Easter as a verb! Wow! Now there’s...
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