by Bill Haley | Aug 19, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Recently, in a sermon at The Falls Church Anglican, I finally got the chance to spend some time unpacking quite a few years of thoughts about praying what we’re actually feeling versus what we think we should be feeling. This is an intense time in our country and in...
by Bill Haley | Aug 11, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
Maybe it’s a little strong, but it’s probably just about right to say that my spiritual director has saved my life at least twice in the past 15 years. And God has met me, profoundly, a thousand more times through his ministry. Father James, a Trappist monk living...
by Coracle | Jul 15, 2020 | Contemplative Life
by Freddy Adams, 2018 Coracle Fellow Last month I set off for a 10-day cycling adventure. The first part I did with a friend through the Shenandoah Valley, and the other part I did solo down the Blue Ridge Parkway. I have had this approximate route on an unofficial...
by Bill Haley | Jun 23, 2020 | Contemplative Life
These are remarkably intense days in an unprecedented year for America. We’ve seen before some of the things we’re living in now, but never all at the same time like this. One writer draws out “a fascinating breakdown of 2020 and its historical parallels (so far):...
by Drew Masterson | Jun 9, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy, Liturgical Seasons
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created mankind in...
by Coracle | Jun 8, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
Coracle has been deeply committed to the work of racial healing from our inception; God’s Kingdom encompasses all things, people, races, and cultures, and it breaks God’s heart to witness the systemic and sustained devaluation of men and women of color created in His...
by Bill Haley | Jun 2, 2020 | Justice and Mercy
I’m writing to invite you to a virtually-offered “Lament for Racial Injustice” from the Corhaven Graveyard on Juneteenth (June 19), considered the Independence Day for African Americans since 1865. We will have brief reflections on the current state of race...
by Mary Gardner | May 28, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Download a Free Visio Divina Resource Guide from Mary » Right now, many of us are struggling to pay attention. Psychologist Curt Thompson recently wrote about fatigue and irritability and offered suggestions that may help during this time – including contemplative...
by Coracle | May 24, 2020 | For the World
On May 21, 2020 we had the privilege of hosting our international mission partner in Guatemala, Nate Bacon (with InnerChange Central America), for a Soundings Seminar where he could offer us a window into how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting marginalized...
by Rick Campanelli | May 21, 2020 | Contemplative Life
“Two years ago during Lent I felt led, in an unusually clear way, to listen to Jesus’ call to us, “Pray Like This.” It occurred to me, as it never had so much before, that since Jesus instructed that we should use each of these phrases to...
by Bill Haley | May 15, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Video Transcript Below: St. Paul offers this testimony. He bears this witness: “I have learned in whatever situation to be content. I know how to be brought low and how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and...
by Barbara Ryan | May 7, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! These verses could have been penned by Jonah from the belly of the whale, who took Jonah literally to great depths! But who has not...
by Drew Masterson | May 4, 2020 | Contemplative Life
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For...
by Ken Wettig | Apr 17, 2020 | Church Unity, Liturgical Seasons
“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.” – Proverbs 16:9 We knew it was coming, but now that it has passed we can confirm it. This Easter was strange. What began suddenly as a strange season of Lent culminated in a...
by Bill Haley | Apr 6, 2020 | Coracle News
Peace be with you, friends. One of my dear mentors, Gordon Cosby, would say, “In times of crisis, go deeper…” We are in a crisis, and I’m ready to go deeper and help you go deeper too. Last week I wrote to our staff and board, “I’m feeling energized by the...
by Karla Petty | Mar 30, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
Many of you have probably seen this widely-circulated Coronavirus meme: It’s funny because it’s true, almost painfully so. Over the past few weeks, every single pilgrimage that Coracle had planned for this year has been canceled, postponed or called seriously into...
by Karla Petty | Jan 22, 2020 | Coracle News, For the World, Pilgrimage
There are well-known slogans like “Explore More” or “Never Stop Exploring” with mass marketing appeal that reflect a well-documented trend towards exploration and travel as a modern-day virtue in American culture. More and more, people are leaving behind the comfort...
by Wade Ballou | Jan 14, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
We’re still close to the beginning of a new year and decade, and as always, beginnings are invitations. So it is with the Christian year. Advent leads to Christmas which in turn becomes Epiphany. Later in the year we enter into Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. We conclude...
by Bill Haley | Jan 7, 2020 | Coracle News, Justice and Mercy
Happy New Year everyone! We just finished the Christmas season, and I’ll bet you heard those powerful words in “O Holy Night” more than once: “Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace / Chains shall He break for the slave is our...
by Kate Harris | Dec 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.” Luke 2:6 (NIV) In an unknown town, a week’s distance from the womanly wisdom of mother, sisters, aunts, it began. Plodding heavily beside...
