by Ken Wettig | Apr 9, 2025 | Contemplative Life
For Practicing Spiritual Formation and Cultural Resistance “We also promise that if the people of the land should bring any merchandise or grain to be sold on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will refuse to buy it.” – Nehemiah 10:31 “We are not the...
by Ken Wettig | Feb 19, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“I will lead you into solitude and there I will speak to your heart.” Hosea 2:14 Amidst the maelstrom of voices, what, or better yet who is speaking to your heart these days? It is a dangerous question to consider seriously, as it is not as though the only voice that...
by Bill Haley | Nov 13, 2024 | Contemplative Life
What would happen if…”A Generation of Believers Gathered Together for One Simple Purpose: To Build Relationships Now that will Transform the Future of the Church and the Culture?” This was the original vision statement for The Vine when we gathered in 1999. ...
by Ken Wettig | Jul 1, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Truly we are excited about the various ways that God has been at work in and through Corhaven here in the valley in the last months. From hosting immigrants and refugee middle school youth for SLAQ’s Newcomer Adventure Day Camp, to seeing individuals and...
by Coracle | Feb 15, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In our modern world, where our days and attentions are constantly harried and fragmented, the Christian traditions of Sabbath and Retreat offer an invitation to a deeper, richer life with God. Since we began over a decade ago, Coracle has sought to create spaces to...
by Jeff Lindeman | Oct 4, 2023 | Coracle News
We want to extend two invitations for you to join us at the Coracle Arlington Ministry Space. First, you are invited to join the Coracle Fellows for a retreat this Saturday (Oct. 7th), “Take, Eat, Be: The Eucharistic Life.” If you’re wondering why you...
by Jeff Lindeman | Jun 15, 2023 | Coracle News
Dear Friends, Coracle, as you know, announced The Next Journey towards the end of 2022, and I am excited today to share how God has been working to bring about our desire to more significantly incarnate our focus on Community, Mission, and Spaces! As we have sought...
by Bill Haley | Sep 20, 2022 | Justice and Mercy
Kristy Wallace and I just returned from a retreat outside of Nashville that I had been eagerly anticipating and even so it exceeded my hopes and expectations! Simply titled “Nourish”, it was offered by the Center for Formation, Justice, and Peace (the order matters),...
by Drew Masterson | Jun 7, 2022 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
As we have pursued our two major series this year– “Discernment: Hearing God in a Noisy World” and “Doubt, Deconstruction & Redemption”– we have come to recognize a significant overlap at the core of what each is pursuing. At root, both series are seeking to help...
by Ken Wettig | Apr 12, 2022 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Did Jesus “hear God” during his last days on Earth? There are only two times in the synoptic Gospels when the audible voice of God is heard and recorded—Jesus’ Baptism and the Mount of Transfiguration. It is worth noting that both times the Father’s voice says...
by Bill Haley | Jan 5, 2022 | Coracle News
Happy New Year, everybody! Regarding this Year of our Lord 2022, I’m excited, intimidated, expectant, and sober. I’m sober because the significant shifts and challenges that we’ve experienced in the past few years will persist and likely intensify. I’m excited by...
by Coracle | Nov 2, 2021 | Coracle News, Liturgical Seasons
by Coracle’s Community Ministers “For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.” Athanasius of Alexandria In less than 4 weeks, Advent begins, as does a new Liturgical...
by Coracle | Jun 8, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In May 2021, we were thrilled to help Kayla Allen and MaryJo Peak host “The Retreat at Swift Run Farm,” which started with a desire to create a beautiful experience around the table that would nourish women through storytelling and delicious food. After...
by Danny Nasry | Apr 27, 2021 | Creation
“No matter how urban our life, our bodies live by farming; we come from the earth and return to it, and so we live in agriculture as we live in flesh.” – Wendell Berry (The Art of the Commonplace) One of the most important questions a professor asked me in...
by Bill Haley | Jan 12, 2021 | Coracle News, Justice and Mercy, Peacemaking
As we emerge out from underneath 2020, we imagine you remember one of the most powerful experiences over the summer–– The Juneteenth Lament for racial injustice broadcast live from the Corhaven Graveyard. We want to tell you about some exciting developments for the...
by Bill Haley | Oct 22, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Creation
I sojourned to south-central Montana in mid-September. The break came at the end of an unexpectedly intense seven weeks, and before a seven-week stretch that I knew would be intense, and unexpectedly became much more so. I needed this time to rest, to immerse myself...
by Karla Petty | Oct 13, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Have you ever left a pile of papers or blankets or clothes in a corner of your home and then proceeded to forget all about it? It never goes anywhere, but we lose the ability (or the will) to see it properly. So too with God’s presence in our homes. All space...
by Coracle | Sep 28, 2020 | Coracle News
by Krista Cocozello It is written, “in the beginning, God created.” (Gen. 1.1) It is the first thing we learn about Him. It is no wonder then that we, made in God’s image, also have the desire to create. Creative outlets look different for everyone. For some, it...
by Karla Petty | Mar 10, 2020 | Coracle News
“You’re like a mirror, reflecting me Takes one to know one, So take it from me…” –from “Dust to Dust” by The Civil Wars We’re all increasingly familiar and inundated – in religious and secular contexts equally – with the vocabulary around...
by Bill Haley | Feb 14, 2020 | Contemplative Life
It feels a crazy time. For me at the moment, it’s all too easy to be often distracted, perhaps even a bit disoriented. There are always the challenges of work and family, and yet right now there is the particularly disappointing and even depressing state of our...
