Life Summit 2018 talks are now online!

Life Summit 2018 Speakers

Click here to watch the video playlist of all the Life Summit 2018 talks or click on the photos below to watch individual talks.
 

Clenard Childress, Founder and North-Eastern Director of BlackGenocide.org


Mark DiGiacoma, CEO and Senior Advisor for Crossroads Leadership Development, LLC.


Wesley J. Smith, Author and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism


Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Vice President, Operation Rescue


Rick Bergh, Thanatologist, Author and Counselor

Stephanie Gray, Pro-Life Author and Speaker


David Bereit, Author and Former CEO of 40 Days for Life
 

Pre-March for Life Worship Service


The Right Rev. John Guernsey, Bishop of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic
 

Anglicans March for Life in Washington, DC

Anglicans joined together on Friday, January 19, 2018, in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life. As in recent  years, the march was joyous and prayerful and offered a very positive witness to support the sanctity of human life.

The Repentance Project: An American Lent 2018

By Bill Haley

We hope you’ll consider joining Coracle in our “Journey Towards Reconciliation” this year by participating in some of these efforts listed below:

1. Right now we’re encouraging folks to join in An American Lent, an online experience we helped create with The Repentance Project that applies the Lenten season of repentance to our country’s history of severe injustice against African Americans and its fruit and ongoing presence. Let us know if you’re interested in doing this with us.
    
2. We’ll gather mid-Lent on Sunday, March 4, 2018, from 2-5pm in Northern Virginia for a discussion about how it's been going with those who are participating, and have further conversation about race in America, and the call to us. Location TBD, so stay tuned.
    
3. On Tuesday evening Feb. 13 (the night before Ash Wednesday) at 7pm in Towson, MD, George Hopkins (a pastor in southwest Baltimore) and Bill Haley will speak and lead a discussion about race in America and a Christian’s response.  See here for more details.
    
4. The Corhaven Graveyard regularly organizes book discussions, movie nights, and outings as ways of continuing the dialogue about America's past and present, and invite others into it together. Here are the latest updates from there, and if you have further questions, you can always contact the Director, Sarah Kohrs, with questions.  
    
5. Coming up this summer, we’ll once again be coordinating an opportunity to go to the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Mall in DC. Details on the date and time will be released in a few weeks.
    
6. Also over the summer, we’ll partner again with Steve Park and Little Lights in SE DC for a day of serving and learning about how race and injustices have shaped our city.  If you’d like more details on that, let us know. 

The Rev. Bill Haley is Executive Director of Coracle and is the Associate Rector of The Falls Church Anglican.

When we worry about our kids: Four things we can do

By Susan Yates

I’ve never heard of a mother who doesn’t worry about her children. Some of us are obsessive worriers, others are a little less concerned but all of us worry to some degree. It is just a part of a mother’s job description!

When they are infants we worry if our baby is seriously ill or just has a cold. We agonize whether another doctor’s visit is worth the hassle or not.  

We worry if we are using the right method of discipline. Are we too lenient or too strict? And it is harder when our spouse has a different philosophy. We worry if we are pushing a child too much. We worry about safety issues. Should we let him go to a play date when we don’t really know the parents? We worry about diets. 

As they get older we wonder if a child is telling the truth. Is he doing something really bad that we don’t know about? We worry about strangers. We worry about the friends they hang out with and in today’s world we worry about their sexual identity. We worry they’ll get hurt in certain sports. We fear their self-image will be harmed if they don’t get chosen for something special. We worry about our school choice and if they’ll get into the “right” college. We worry if they’ll ever get married and we worry about who they might marry.

And we worry that we have ruined our kids in some way. 

You can add to this list!

There is a lot to worry about. But the fact is that worrying only makes us miserable, our home stressful, and our kids anxious.

We know we ought not to worry but instead simply trust in God. 

But that’s not so easy is it? 

We do try to trust Him with our child but then we begin to worry again which makes us feel guilty because we think we should be able to trust him and we aren’t. It’s an emotional roller coaster-ups and downs but never ending. 

So what do we do with our worries?

Four things will help. 

1. Remember this is HIS child first. God knows this child better than you do. He formed him in his mother’s womb. (Psalm 139). Read this out loud as a prayer inserting your child’s name in every pronoun. 
2. Recognize that God chose our exact children in the exact birth order with the exact personalities not merely so we could raise them but also so that they might be His tools in our lives to grow us up into the women He created us to be. Ask God to reveal to you what He wants you to learn from your child. His lessons are motivated by His perfect love for each of us.
3.  Focus on someone else. When and how can I actively care for someone else?  Do it this week. When we do something that takes us out of our own world our perspective is restored.
4. Count on the prayers of Jesus for your child. As moms we often feel it’s all up to us. But it isn’t. Jesus Himself is sitting at the right hand of God interceding for us and for our child. (Hebrews 7:25). It is a comfort to mentally picture Jesus talking to our heavenly Father about our child!

Remember: Your ability to ruin your child is not nearly as great as God’s power to redeem him.

“For nothing is impossible for God.”
—Luke 1:37

Susan Yates is the author of thirteen books and speaks both nationally and internationally on the subjects of marriage, parenting, and women’s issues. Her books include Raising Kids with Character That Lasts, co-authored with her husband, the Rev. Dr. John Yates, rector of The Falls Church Anglican, Falls Church, VA. Be sure to read her blog here. 

DOMACAST: A History of Race and the Church

The Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic brings insightful podcasts featuring a cross section of speakers from all walks of our Christian life.  Listen on the diocesan website and subscribe to DOMACAST here.

Now available: A History of Race and the Church in the American Anglican Tradition
Presented by Professor Albert Thompson

AUDIO • VIDEO • SLIDES
 
This breakout session takes a deep look at the history of racism in the Church from its origins in the fifteenth century to the modern era, with an emphasis on the Anglican tradition in the United States. Albert Thompson is a war, conflict and peace historian and an instructor of history at Northern Virginia Community College. He joined the Anglican Church in North America in 2011. In 2016, he was elected to the Vestry of Christ the King Church (Alexandria,VA) and to the Standing Committee of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic. He holds a Masters in Military History from Norwich University where his research focused on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in history at Howard University where he focuses on post-Second World War American identity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

You may also find featured talks in the DOMACAST podcast available for free in the iTunes Store here.  You may listen to episodes online, download to your device, or subscribe.

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