by Bill Haley | Oct 21, 2024 | Contemplative Life
It is autumn, my favorite season. The beauty of it, for those with eyes to see, threatens to undo us. This is the sentiment of Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem, in autumn, ‘God’s World’: O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! ...
by Bill Haley | Oct 18, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God: BIBLE” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us through Paul’s impassioned, free-wheeling defense of his apostolic authority in 2 Corinthians 11-12. Specifically, he highlights the deep insight Paul is granted...
by Bill Haley | Oct 2, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Vocation
I’m grateful for this Saturday’s retreat on the Eucharist. You’re welcome to join. Of the12 retreats we do over the course of our Coracle Fellowship year, a full one of those is on Communion. Of all the topics we could choose in the realm of spiritual formation and...
by Bill Haley | Sep 11, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Late last year I felt led to try to stay closer to the Desert Fathers and Mothers, those Christians from around the southeastern Mediterranean basin in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Their desire for union with God and a God-ly life led them to great renunciations, much...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into a reflection on Matthew 14 and the story of Jesus walking on the water. He draws our attention to Jesus’ 5 remarks during this episode, using them as...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Justice and Mercy
Two steps forward, one step back. Three steps forward, two steps back. That’s how progress towards racial justice and healing in America can seem. So what does a follower of Jesus who longs for the Kingdom of God to come and for the Beloved Community to become real...
by Bill Haley | Aug 28, 2024 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Jesus asked a man who’d been lame for 38 years a powerful question in John 5, “Do you want to be well?” Early this past June, we partnered with the Center for Formation, Justice, and Peace to humbly and soberly look at three assumptions that were present in the...
by Bill Haley | Jul 30, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley guides us into a meditation on fire. Tracing the theme of fire through scripture, Bill helps us wrestle with our invitation to be both purified and illuminated by God’s fire of love. EXPLORE Past...
by Bill Haley | Jul 16, 2024 | Contemplative Life
It’s only been a couple of weeks since I felt led to offer a “how to stay grounded and peaceful in God” reflection. And then these past few days, phew! And that’s just the United States, not to mention Ukraine and Gaza and places of war and other places and people...
by Bill Haley | Jul 10, 2024 | Contemplative Life
I seem to not be able to escape them, Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood. Their stories are told Mark 5.21-43 and Luke 8.40-56. She was in the gospel reading for our Wednesday Noon Eucharist last week, she is in the gospel reading for our healing Eucharist...
by Bill Haley | Jul 3, 2024 | Church Unity
With Incarnation Anglican Church and the Revs Amy Rowe and Katie Hamlin, Coracle offered a healing Eucharist service for those who have been wounded by the church on Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm in our ministry center at Greenbrier Baptist Church in Arlington, VA. You...
by Bill Haley | Jun 12, 2024 | Contemplative Life, For the World, Peacemaking
It’s still difficult to find words to adequately describe our recent solidarity trip to Israel and Palestine. I’m so grateful that Todd Deatherage did such a good job capturing so much of our trip in his recent reflection and also our conversation, it saves me from...
by Bill Haley | Jun 4, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Friends, it’s been a dizzying few weeks with current events and the news cycle. I wonder if you too catch yourself feeling emotionally and intellectually seasick? It’s a lot to keep track of, it’s a lot to feel, it’s a lot to hold. Here’s just a short and...
by Bill Haley | May 10, 2024 | Coracle News
Dear Friends, It gives me great joy to let you know that God has been and is doing “more than we could ask or imagine” (Eph. 3.20) in the ministry of Coracle! Read on about that, but first let me say thank you again for your faithful support of this ministry. You...
by Bill Haley | Apr 30, 2024 | Contemplative Life
This past weekend I was privileged to be the speaker for the annual men’s retreat of Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, well pastored by the Rev. Dan Marotta. It was sweet, my deepest memories are of the one on one conversations I got to enjoy. The topics were...
by Bill Haley | Apr 30, 2024 | Contemplative Life, Creation
In this “Space for God: Beauty” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into an uplifting meditation on the beauty of the spring season. He weaves together music, footage of creation, and scripture to help us behold and magnify...
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...
