For the Journey

This week we share a " Soundings Seminar " conversation between Ken Wettig ( Coracle Community Minister) and a pair of missionaries from Jakarta, Indonesia. Anita and Yosiah, live and serve in a slum community, where they help to run a preschool and after-school program for neighborhood kids called House of Hope. We hope their passion for Jesus and their love for those on the margins ins...

This week we share a “For the Journey” conversation between Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) and Mariah Humphries (Executive Director for The Center for Formation, Justice and Peace ). Their conversation focuses on Native American spirituality and the role of divine revelation in North America prior to the arrival of Christianity. As we hope you’ll discover, there are many ways Native Ameri...

This week we offer a special New Year’s “ Space for God ” devotional facilitated by artist and teacher Mary Jennings . Through imagining the year ahead as a “blank page,” Mary helps us feel the tension between the uncertainty and provision that is always present in our lives. View Our Complete Archive of “Space for God” Prayer Practices Learn More About Spiritual Direction through Coracle inthecor...

For our final podcast of the year, we offer a conversation between Coracle Executive Director, Bill Haley, and Coracle’s two community ministers, Scott Buresh and Ken Wettig. They discuss the ways they have seen God at work in and through Coracle this year as well as the things they are excited to lean into with God in the coming year. Thank you for journeying with us this year on the podcast—we l...

This week we share a Christmas reflection offered by Rev. Bill Haley on God’s glorious creation and His even more glorious decision to enter into creation, on this particular planet, in the form of a helpless baby. Learn More About Spiritual Direction through Coracle Explore More Advent Resources inthecoracle.org   |  @inthecoracle Support the show For the Journey  is a resource of the Coracle Cen...

This week we share a " Space for God: Advent " devotional led by Kristy Wallace Grant .  Kristy guides us into a practice of lectio divina focused on Isaiah 45:3 .  She helps us appreciate more deeply the attention paid to darkness in the Advent season and enter more fully into the "treasures of darkness" the Lord offers us as we begin the liturgical year. View Our Complete Arc...

This week we offer a conversation between members of Restoration Immigration Legal Aid — a ministry supporting immigrants in the Washington D.C. area by providing excellent, pro bono immigration legal assistance to those who are most vulnerable and who have the fewest resources. They discuss their work and how they see it as participating in God’s kingdom of justice and shalom. This was originally...

This week, we share a For the Journey Conversation between Bill Haley and Author and Spiritual Director, Amy Boucher Pye .  They discuss what contemplation is and what it means to be contemplative, how to cultivate a friendship with Jesus, helpful and unhelpful ways of looking at Mary and Martha, the relationship between contemplation and action, and more. At the end, Amy leads us in a guided pray...

This week, we share a "Space for God" devotional featuring Susan Marks (Coracle Spiritual Director ). Susan introduces us to and guides us through an experience of " Ignatian Gospel Reading ." Developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century, this is a way of prayerfully encountering Bible stories such that all our faculties are drawn into an encounter with God through O...

This week, we share a For the Journey Conversation between Bill Haley and Rob Shields , the Vice President of Strategy for 11 Ten Leadership , a company seeking to equip Christian business leaders to live out God’s heart for justice in their particular contexts.  Bill and Rob dig into the powerful intent behind and structure of 11 Ten’s “Just Leadership Groups,” the importance of a healthy relatio...

This week, we share a Soundings Seminar from Sept. 2020 featuring Michael Wear, then of the AND Campaign and currently President of the Center for Christianity and Public Life .  Bill and Michael discuss how the culture wants us to think about our vote and how our Christian faith pushes back against this cultural pressure.  They also get into topics of political discernment and the deep spiritual...

In this For the Journey conversation, Bill Haley speaks with Dan Marotta about his new devotional, Our Church Speaks: An Illustrated Devotional of Saints from Every Era and Place .  With wonderful illustrations by Ben Lansing, the book profiles 52 men and women from across the centuries and globe whose lives bear witness to the beauty and transformative power of Jesus.  In particular, they discuss...

This week, we share a " Space for God: Beauty " devotional offered by Drew Masterson (UVA Center for Christian Study), guiding us into an immersive encounter with the classic hymn, "For the Beauty of the Earth." He offers three different musical renditions of the hymn, interspersed with time for intentional reflection on the lyrics, enabling us to remember to remember that our...

In this For the Journey conversation , Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) talks with Isaac Wardell (co-founder, Porter's Gate Worship Project ). They discuss many things, including: - How our worship music can form (or deform) our view of our neighbor - How we relate to other Christians who believe very differently about what following Jesus allows and demands - What really is going...

This week, we share a recent Soundings Seminar conversation with Tremper Longman , a distinguished biblical scholar and prolific author.  As we all know, it’s a big election year in America.  How might the Bible speak to and inform our vote as Christians? Tremper offers a thoughtful and grounded response to that question, drawing on insights from his 2020 book, The Bible and the Ballot: Using Scri...

This week, we share a For the Journey conversation between Bill Haley and David W. Swanson , a longtime pastor in Chicago and the author of Re-Discipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to Real Solidarity . They discuss the discipleship malformations that produced and have perpetuated our racially-segregated Sunday mornings, and David shares several profound insights and stories illustratin...

This week, we share a sermon delivered by Rev. Bill Haley back in 2012 on Paul’s astounding statement in Romans 8 that, once we align our lives with Jesus, we become co-heirs of God’s present and coming kingdom along with him. inthecoracle.org   |  @inthecoracle Support the show For the Journey  is a resource of the Coracle Center of Formation  for  Action and is made possible through the generous...

This week, we share a For the Journey conversation between Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) and his friend James LeBlanc .  Bill met James back in 2007 while James was trying to get his life together after a long string of bad choices.  Since then, James’ life has come together in amazing ways after 30 years of fighting various addictions with many consequences.  James even wrote a boo...

This week, we share a " Space for God " devotional guided by Ken Wettig ( Coracle Community Minister), who shares a story from Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican Bishop and theologian.  It is a profound story about Tutu's first encounter with Trevor Huddleston, a white Anglican priest who came across a young Tutu and his mother one day on the street.  Huddleston's actions t...

This week, we share a Soundings Seminar Conversation between Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) and Dr. John Inazu (Washington University Professor of Law & Religion) hosted at Restoration Anglican Church in Arlington, VA. They discuss John’s new book, Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect .  John’s insights and presence are a tr...

This week, we share a sermon preached by Rev. Bill Haley back in 2014 on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and his powerful exhortation for our lives to display the radical unity we already share in Christ. View Our Complete Archive of “Space for God” Prayer Practices Learn More About Spiritual Direction through Coracle inthecoracle.org   |  @inthecoracle Support the show For the Journey  is...

This week, we share a “Space for God” devotional offered by author and executive director of Theological Horizons , Karen Wright Marsh . Karen guides us into the life and work of Ephrem of Syria (c. 306-373). The "lyric theology" of this early Christian pastor, poet, refugee, theologian, and songwriter has the power to refresh our perspectives even today. Karen concludes our time togethe...

This week, we share a sermon preached by Rev. Bill Haley back in 2014 on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and its powerful image of Jesus, our death-conquering pioneer king. inthecoracle.org   |  @inthecoracle Support the show For the Journey  is a resource of the Coracle Center of Formation  for  Action and is made possible through the generous support of men and women across the globe.

This week, we share the fifth installment of Coracle's 2024 "Justice, Mercy & Humility" Soundings Seminar Series.  This series explores the continuing relevance of Micah 6:8’s exhortation to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.” This week features a conversation between Terry Timm and Tracy Mathews of Attune , a ministry helping leaders and teams slow down and hear...

This week, we share a sermon preached by Rev. Bill Haley back in 2014 on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and its powerful articulation of God’s vision for the church and our work as Christians. inthecoracle.org   |  @inthecoracle Support the show For the Journey  is a resource of the Coracle Center of Formation  for  Action and is made possible through the generous support of men and women...