by Tara Haley | Jun 12, 2018 | Creation
Well friends, the warm weather has finally come and, with it, abundant new life to Corhaven! The spring garden has been in the ground for nearly a month and we have been enjoying asparagus and rhubarb, while the leeks, onions, garlic, and shallots have sent up green...
by Karla Petty | Jun 12, 2018 | Coracle News, Pilgrimage
It’s a new era for Coracle. Our little boat is growing. For years, our staff has been made up of people who give part of their time to Coracle and part of their time to other professional roles. It was a great beginning and that structure served us very well. ...
by Coracle | Jun 8, 2018 | Coracle News
Everyone, we are so happy to be welcoming Laren Butler to Corhaven for the summer of 2018. She comes to us in between her third and fourth years at UVA where she studies Sociology and Religious studies. She is involved with Theological Horizons, and found out about...
by Coracle | May 18, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
By: Lynnette Hughes Coracle Fellow ’17 and Coracle Spiritual Director 20 years ago I read Susan Howatch’s Starbridge Series of novels, describing the history of the Church of England in the 20th century, in which one of the main characters is a dynamic priest in...
by Karla Petty | May 4, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Creation
“A cold spring: the violet was flawed on the lawn. For two weeks or more the trees hesitated; the little leaves waited, carefully indicating their characteristics. Finally a grave green dust settled over your big and aimless hills… The infant oak-leaves swung through...
by Coracle | Apr 24, 2018 | Contemplative Life
By: Judith James “ ‘Let NOT the wise man glory in his wisdom; let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising...
by Bill Haley | Feb 9, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love. – John 15:9 As we move into Lent next Wednesday, here are some thoughts that are helpful to keep firmly in mind and heart. When you’re going to truly consider and climb down into the depth of...
by Karla Petty | Feb 2, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
With Lent beginning on Valentine’s day, and Easter falling on April 1 (April Fool’s day) it’s already a struggle to enter in to an important liturgical season, even before it has started. Even without competing with greeting card holidays, it’s...
by Karla Petty | Jan 16, 2018 | Contemplative Life
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ~ Proverbs 2:6 Time and again, the bible instructs us to seek wisdom. In Proverbs 8, wisdom is personified as a woman who calls out to the “children of man”. For many of us, seeking wisdom...
by Bill Haley | Jan 4, 2018 | Contemplative Life
Happy New Year, friends! As 2018 begins to unfold, no doubt it will be an interesting year for each one of us, full of challenges and joys. Some of those joys and challenges maybe we can anticipate, and many we have no idea are coming! But we can be assured that...
by Coracle | Nov 30, 2017 | Coracle News, Liturgical Seasons
Dear ones, I’m delighted to offer you Coracle’s Annual Report for 2017, and a look into 2018. Please take some time to look it through, thank God with us, and pray for us coming into 2018. SO many people are making Coracle possible, and you are amongst them. Thank...
by Coracle | Nov 28, 2017 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow pilgrims, This annual letter updating you and asking for your help is always a joy to write, and this year even more so. 2017 has been a remarkable year for the ministry of Coracle. The only explanation is that God is with us and blessing...
by Karla Petty | Oct 13, 2017 | Contemplative Life
It’s doubtful that people ever actually want to meditate on suffering. But these mediations do come in the course of our lives, through direct or indirect circumstances. About two years ago, I wrote to you about the death of my cousin, Brian. In early Spring, I wrote...
by Karla Petty | Oct 6, 2017 | Contemplative Life
In the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there is a running gag featuring monks in sombre garments, trudging through streets, chanting mirthlessly and monotonously in Latin, hitting themselves on the head with boards in between cadences of their chant. Despite...
by Bill Haley | Sep 5, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Describing his conversion, CS Lewis wrote “Into the region of awe, in deepest solitude there is a road right out of the self, a commerce with…the naked Other, imageless (though our imagination salutes it with a hundred images), unknown, undefined, desired.” It’s a...
by Coracle | Jul 27, 2017 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Common box turtles, with their ornate yellow etching, love to eat ripe mayapple fruits. I recently saw one nestled near purple coneflowers in the tribute garden at the Corhaven Graveyard. What many do not realize is that turtles can live as many as 100 years and...
by Karla Petty | Jul 7, 2017 | Coracle News
A long, slow, exhale as you ease into your chair with something you’ve been wanting to read. A sultry morning, a soundtrack of cicadas and sprinklers, sans school buses, when you can already feel the heat sizzle at 7am. A warm night outside with a grill going and...
by Coracle | Jul 3, 2017 | Contemplative Life
By: Kathryn McIvor, 2017 Corhaven Intern As a worship planner on the edge of burnout, I had mastered the art of being in a service without engaging too deeply, afraid that an encounter with God might just push me past the point of no return. So I hid behind the...
by Coracle | Jun 30, 2017 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Read about Girl Scout Troop #1963’s visit to the Corhaven Graveyard last month.
by Bill Haley | Jun 16, 2017 | Contemplative Life
I am in anguish… It lit something in me. It was such a brief conversation a couple of months ago while walking the littered streets of Bethlehem, but its effect is having the effect of focusing my attention like a laser. On our last Coracle/Telos trip to the Israel...
