by Coracle | Jan 26, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Kathy Bruce helps us move out of the Zoom room into the cathedral of creation. She guides us to quotes and scriptures that powerfully worship God by attending closely to the beauty, majesty, and scale of...
by Bill Haley | Jan 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are spending some time looking at the story of the Magi – specifically, highlighting the main characters: Jesus, Herod, & the Wise Men. They all have a lot to say to us today about power, status, politics, and the Christian...
by Chris Lugo | Jul 28, 2023 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Rev. Chris Lugo (Coracle Community Minister) guides us down to the biblical foundation of spiritual formation—Deuteronomy 6. Known traditionally as the “shema,” this powerful invitation to worship God...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | May 26, 2023 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: Bible”, Kristy Wallace Grant (Repentance Project Director) guides us into an encounter with Psalm 139 in all its beauty and fullness. Drawing together Scripture, story, and song from different cultures, she invites us to worship...
by Bill Haley | Dec 16, 2022 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons, Vocation
In the early 2000s, in the dead of winter, Tara and I spent several weeks in eastern Romania, serving street kids there and those who work with them. While we were there, we attended an Orthodox Church, which architecturally and visually was similar to every other...
by Chris Lugo | Sep 30, 2022 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE,” Rev. Chris Lugo (Restoration Anglican Church) guides us through Hebrews 4 as he explores what it means for us to truly “draw near to God.” Given all the forces and voices seeking to draw us away from God, we hope this prayerful reminder...
by Laura Mastroianni | Apr 13, 2022 | Creation
At the end of February, I attended the Coracle Fellowship in Baltimore retreat on the Eucharist. During our time of Silence and Solitude, I felt compelled to go outside for a walk. I really tried to ignore that feeling. I’m not familiar with the area, and I didn’t...
by Coracle | Jun 21, 2021 | Justice and Mercy
On June 19th, 2021, Coracle hosted our 5th annual Juneteenth Commemoration & Celebration, broadcast from the Corhaven Graveyard. This special online service wove together the themes of Honesty, Solidarity & Hope-in-Action, and it was a very impactful time.The...
by Danny Nasry | Mar 26, 2021 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Danny Nasry (Coracle Community Minister) guides us through an opportunity to connect with our inherent human weakness as an invitation to worship and prayer. He interacts with some well-known passages from scripture and...
by Drew Masterson | Nov 16, 2020 | Coracle News
The challenge is to wait well. Over the past nine months, we have grown familiar with (and probably quite tired of) longing, hoping, and anticipating a promised restoration of life, peace, and community that remains on the unreachable horizon. As we relinquish...
by Bill Haley | Nov 12, 2020 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy, Vocation
In May 2014, I had the opportunity to preach on this question, and I did something I’d never done before and haven’t done since. I wrote the sermon first as a long essay, writing it as completely as possible so I could get it all out on the page, and unsurprisingly...
by Coracle | Nov 10, 2020 | Contemplative Life
On the evening of November 5th, 2020– two days after election day and two days before the election results would be called– we gathered for what we had been calling a “Post-Election Palette Cleanser.” This was an opportunity to tune-out all of the noise...
by Karla Petty | Sep 14, 2020 | Contemplative Life
I experienced the passage of time through a wide variety of tempos these last six months. March was Allegretto – “moderately fast”. April through June was Adagio – “slowly with great expression”. July through August was Andante – at a walking pace. And now we’re...
by Coracle | Sep 3, 2020 | Coracle News
This election cycle is already generating anxiety, fear, and increasing polarization across our country and in our churches. We want to respond with a call to faithfulness, confidence, and love rooted in our security in Jesus’ love for us. We hope you will...
by Drew Masterson | Sep 3, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
On Friday, August 31st, Bill Haley and I had the opportunity to join around 120 pastors, ministry leaders, and laypeople to walk the 9 miles from Old Town Alexandria to Black Lives Matter Plaza out in front of the White House as part of Walk the Walk 2020. Bill has...
by Bill Haley | Sep 1, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Several years ago I had occasion to write a spiritual autobiography. I wouldn’t naturally have done that, but the assignment opened up a surprising opportunity to trace God’s fingerprints in my life and led to deep worship then and now. Something I had to do turned...
by Coracle | Dec 6, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Vocation
Poem and Reflection by Julie Harrison Eastwood Coracle Fellow, Class of 2019 Eucharist Song Prepare the fields lay them open and ready to receive graft and seed to be baptized with rain with tears as we wait in the hospitable silence Sing with the fields greening in...
by Karla Petty | Nov 5, 2019 | Church Unity, For the World, Pilgrimage
In late September of 2018, I began a journey that started in Rome and ended in Kathmandu. In Italy, my purpose was witnessing my older brother’s ordination into the diaconate of the Roman Catholic Church. In Nepal, it was to witness God’s church at work in the...
by Coracle | Oct 28, 2019 | Coracle News
On September 21st, 2019, about 125 old and new friends descended on Quicksburg, VA for the “Decade of Corhaven” celebration honoring ten years of God’s faithfulness to and through this special place and the Haley’s who have sought to steward it. Many came from hours...
by Drew Masterson | Sep 24, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
Robert Frost once defined poetry as a “way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.” Poetry emerged as the first form of literary writing in human history way back in the 3rd Millennium BCE, and indeed the vast majority of ancient literature comes down to...