by Bill Haley | Apr 17, 2024 | For the World
I’ve known John Inazu for a long time, all the way back to our Kairos young adults community in the early 2000s, and I always appreciate any opportunity to talk with him. He’s wise, thoughtful, and good, a deep lover of Jesus. I always come away from our conversations...
by Bill Haley | Apr 10, 2024 | Church Unity, Coracle News, For the World
Dear friends, I’d like to invite you to join me and Bishop Todd Hunter virtually for an online conference Saturday, June 8 from 10am-3pm ET “Do You Want to Be Well: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Healing for the Church in America.” We, along with others, are offering...
by Bill Haley | Mar 26, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Friends, as followers of Jesus we are to be incarnations of the Incarnation. The actual invitation of the Christian faith is not just to believe in Jesus or be like Jesus or tell others about Jesus (as right as these thing are), but actually to be the presence...
by Bill Haley | Mar 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry (Luke 19) into Jerusalem offers a dramatic contrast. On this, the first Palm Sunday which we still celebrate even on this very day, the whole story of Jesus begins quickly moving to its climax. Indeed the whole story of Israel, which had...
by Bill Haley | Feb 13, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
For a long time I’ve liked to think of Lent as a coming home, a turning around from whatever takes me from God and a coming back home into the arms of the loving forgiveness of God. It’s a time to reflect on the subtleties of sin and sins in our own lives, for...
by Bill Haley | Feb 8, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us through a series of reflective prompts that help us wrap our minds around what it means to be “a contemplative” and then to discern in ourselves which...
by Bill Haley | Feb 7, 2024 | Contemplative Life
For a long time, my simple definition of ‘contemplation’ has been, “Being present to the presence of God,” tweaked perhaps to, “Being present to the loving presence of God.” The second is a helpful reminder, but it is actually a redundancy. God’s presence is by...
by Bill Haley | Jan 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Exec. Dir.) guides us into the ancient practice of breath prayer. Through this simple but profound practice, we can experience God’s indwelling, loving presence at any time in any place. We pray you...
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 Bill Haley | Jan 17, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Did you know that in the church year, Epiphany can be celebrated on a day, or for a whole season? This year I’m appreciating remembering that Jesus is the light of the world, the epiphany of God, who still shines, and wants to through us. That’s the invitation and...
by Bill Haley | Jan 11, 2024 | Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend 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...
by Bill Haley | Jan 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During this season of Epiphanytide, we are going to spend the next three Saturdays 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,...
by Bill Haley | Jan 3, 2024 | Coracle News
Friends, 2024 is upon us, what will be an interesting year to be sure, full of graces and challenges. Throughout the Advent and Christmas readings we all just heard, you probably noticed the angel messengers always led with “Fear not”, a timeless word that happens to...
by Bill Haley | Dec 22, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
*During the last week of Advent there are a special little group of prayers called the O Antiphons that the church has traditionally sung during Evening Prayer. The O Antiphons are seven distinct verses that all begin with a vocative “O” followed by a...
by Bill Haley | Dec 6, 2023 | Contemplative Life
by Bill Haley | Dec 5, 2023 | Pilgrimage
Brothers and sisters! I’d like to invite you to seriously consider and hopefully join me on a trek to Everest Base Camp on approximately May 12-26, 2024 in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. A little background…Since I first visited Nepal and trekked in the...
by Bill Haley | Nov 15, 2023 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow pilgrims, I’ll keep this letter brief as most of what I want to say is in Coracle’s vision for 2024, “The Light Shines in the Darkness”, and I want to tell you about that. But let me start by saying “Thank you!” Thank you. Your participation...
by Bill Haley | Nov 8, 2023 | Coracle News
I am so excited to begin our next Fellowship cohorts in January and I wanted to make sure that you knew about it! We have two cohort opportunities coming up in 2024 – in-person in the NoVA/DC area and one completely virtual. Our Fellowship program offers 12...
by Bill Haley | Nov 1, 2023 | Contemplative Life
Friends, it can be really fruitful to slow down and really pay attention to what the famous prayers–those that are at least many decades old and well known–are actually praying, and pray them for ourselves. This most powerful prayer of Charles de Foucauld is but one...
by Bill Haley | Oct 18, 2023 | Contemplative Life
Dear Jesus, help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go. Flood our souls with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being, so utterly, that our lives may only be a radiance of yours. Shine through us, and be so in us, that every soul we come in...
