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Love With Skin On

Love With Skin On

by | Dec 14, 2022 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons

Tis the season for Advent and Christmas Carols, and as much as the tunes themselves, even more so I’m deeply inspired by the words of them.  At the core of the songs are poems.  In her recent New York Times column, Anglican priest Tish Warren Harrison explores...
Deliverer, Delivered

Deliverer, Delivered

by | 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...
Joseph Speaks

Joseph Speaks

by | Dec 16, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons

She insisted on seeing me face-to-face, unveiled, defying all custom for the betrothed to remain apart until the wedding feast. I watched her eyes rain when she saw doubt and pain in mine. They said it was a good match: me from David’s royal line, she connected to...

A World of Silent Night

by | Dec 26, 2018 | Contemplative Life

By: John Gardner Many people know the story of how Franz Gruber, an organist in Oberndorf, Austria, whose organ was broken, hurriedly composed the melody for “Silent Night” for guitar on Christmas Eve, 1818 – two hundred years ago today.  The bicentennial has gone...

Dad’s Christmas ilemma

by | Dec 19, 2014 | Contemplative Life

This blog was originally posted by a Coracle board member, Soren Johnson. “What’s your favorite time of the year?” I asked my 7-year-old son the other day. Without a pause, he nearly shouted, “Christmas Eve.” Fellow dads, listen up. We can read our kids’ excitement in...

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