by Coracle | Feb 7, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
As we approach the season of Lent one week from today, please see this printable PDF that we put together of some resources we really like. We want to particularly point you toward An American Lent, an online tool which we helped develop to dive into this season of...
by Bill Haley | Nov 13, 2017 | Spiritual Direction
Do you ever wish you had someone who would come alongside you, to be with you in your journey, to deeply listen to your heart, someone who wouldn’t tell you what to do but rather simply to help you listen to God? Do you feel like God is inviting you to More but...
by Karla Petty | Nov 10, 2017 | Pilgrimage
“SOOOO… How was the CAMINO??” When I have been posed this question over the last few weeks since I’ve been back, I allow myself a long pause before responding. There is so much to say, so much I could relate about all that God did while walking 70 miles with 5 other...
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 Wade Ballou | Sep 18, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
“War, sin, killing and a robbing — they say that the world is one big problem. I’ve got one, I tell you now, I can’t find my guernsey cow. I didn’t write no constitution but I got one good solution: drink a little wine, drink a little booze, sit on the back porch and...
by Erin Clifford | Jun 3, 2017 | Liturgical Seasons
“Just as the resurrection of Jesus opened up the unexpected world of God’s new creation, so the Spirit comes to us from that new world, the world waiting to be born, the world in which, according to the old prophets, peace and justice will flourish, and the wolf...
by Erin Clifford | May 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people.” -E. M. Bounds Which one of us has not grown weary in prayer and needed someone to intercede for us? In Scripture we...
by Abigail Whitehouse | Apr 21, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Last week I spent my day off doing a deep spring cleaning. I swept the dirty corners of my room, dusted-off countertops and opened all the windows of my house to let the fresh air in; and once everything was back in its place – dusted, cleaned, polished and...
by Bill Haley | Mar 26, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” Neh. 5.19 Pray and Be Strange for God’s sake, your good, and others…and expect costly opposition A few years ago I had the opportunity to make my first trip to China, to Shanghai. Two things...
by Scott Buresh | Mar 17, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Fifteen years ago my wife Peggy and I had the incredible opportunity of spending two weeks with Dallas Willard and a community of brothers and sisters at the Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center in Sierra Madre, California. As that week progressed we were given...
by Coracle | Feb 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Liturgical seasons can act as guideposts through the year and Lent is a particularly special one. It’s easy to get caught up in the “sackcloth and ashes” part of Lent, with all the self-denial and focus on our own sin. This is important to...
by Coracle | Feb 16, 2017 | Contemplative Life, For the World
By: Margot Eyring, Coracle Spiritual Director Margot is a regular volunteer at Our Daily Bread Breakfast Ministry in DC and Health and Wellness Professional. She writes on how Prayer, Compassion and Paying Attention have been helpful to her in her spiritual life. ...
by Coracle | Feb 7, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Several years ago, my wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary with a getaway in southern Utah. Where we stayed, we were bordered by the Colorado River on one side, and on the other by the dramatic red sandstone structures that make up the landscape. One morning...
by Coracle | Jan 20, 2017 | Contemplative Life
By: Desiree Barker Coracle Spiritual Director, Northern Virginia I will begin by saying that I did not grow up keeping a diary or a journal. I had two younger sisters and writing down personal things in a diary was not a safe activity at our house! While in college, I...
by Coracle | Jan 10, 2017 | Contemplative Life
By: Yonce Shelton Coracle Spiritual Director December 2016 I believe because I go to the woods and am met. I go not to get away from, but to draw closer to. I go with desire. Or a question. Or the sense that I carry something. Or three words on a sticky note. I...
by Bill Haley | Jan 3, 2017 | Contemplative Life
2017 is going to be a big, strange year, full of challenges, with much uncertainty. You feel it. We all do. I do, deeply. And just like it is true at the beginning of every new year, the world needs more people who are alive and strong in God to powerfully be his...
by Scott Buresh | Nov 30, 2016 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
On my journey with Christ I have considered myself many things: a redeemed, rescued, forgiven, beloved child of God; Jesus’s friend; Jesus’s co-laborer in the world; God’s handiwork created in His image. But rarely have I identified with being a “contemplative,” one...
by Karla Petty | Oct 14, 2016 | For the World
The deep Monday morning sigh when the alarm goes off too early after a night of poor sleep is perhaps the best parallel to describe how I feel as an American facing the November 8 election. I am resigned to what is facing me and will get up and move forward, but am...
by Erin Clifford | Oct 5, 2016 | For the World
Bill and I have just returned from a wonderful two days in Albania with the World Vision staff from Albania and Kosovo. World Vision has an annual global Day of Prayer, and for their particular observance of this day the team decided to have an overnight retreat. This...
by Coracle | Aug 26, 2016 | Contemplative Life
A few weeks ago, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Washington DC Urban Program sent student leaders from around the DC area to Corhaven for a mid-project retreat. We posted about it here. What follows is a reflection from Medina Anderson, Bowie State, ’18 and...
