by Bill Haley | Feb 22, 2013 | Justice and Mercy
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard the word ‘justice’ already, well… The effect of so much attention on one topic from so many different angles can hurt the head, and it makes me ask, “OK, now just what are we talking about again? And just what is...
by Bill Haley | Feb 22, 2013 | Creation, Justice and Mercy
Corhaven is a 17 acre slice of earth, given to our community to steward well for the purposes of God which includes stewarding well the land itself. Peter Harris is the founder and international director of A Rocha (their motto “Christians in Conservation”), a well...
by Bill Haley | Feb 22, 2013 | Justice and Mercy
Thoughts from a break-out session by Paul Metzger on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mother Teresa, and John Perkins Believe in a suffering God Believe in a resurrected God See Jesus in relation to the poor Sense your own poverty in relation to the poor Lay down your life for...
by Bill Haley | Feb 22, 2013 | Justice and Mercy
At a smaller breakfast this morning sponsored by World Relief, Lynne Hybels shared her story of her own transformation. In her words, if you’d told her ten years ago she’d be deep in the work of working for peace in Israel/Palestine and offering hope to the women of...
by Bill Haley | Feb 21, 2013 | Justice and Mercy
Coracle · The Blessing of Pursuing Justice Just over one year over a year ago, The Falls Church Anglican did a four-week sermon series on justice. Kicking it off with the sermon above, I reflected on the Christian’s privilege of being able to work for justice, and...
by Bill Haley | Feb 20, 2013 | Justice and Mercy
Dear friends, I’m going to be quick to the point, and then make a bigger point. The point: This Thursday night through Saturday I’m going to be participating in The Justice Conference in Philadelphia with World Relief, to be with a few dear dear friends...
by Bill Haley | Feb 14, 2013 | Liturgical Seasons
I love Lent…I love Lent. It’s like a long, hot shower for the soul, spring cleaning for our spirits. There’s such value in observing the church year, such pastoral help. Lent helps us come clean through self-examination, confession, repentance, and amendment...
by Bill Haley | Jan 3, 2013 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
I’ve often mentioned that I’ve come to discover the deepest truths about life, God, and the spiritual life from the lives and insights of those who have suffered much, and those who have chosen the religious, viz the monastic, life. Perhaps one could add to those...
by Bill Haley | Dec 21, 2012 | For the World, Liturgical Seasons
If we can’t count on cold weather and snow this holiday season, one thing we can count on is that all of us will have many opportunities to wait. Checkout lines at the grocery store are longer, more people flood the retail stores shopping for gifts and clogging the...
by Bill Haley | Nov 21, 2012 | Contemplative Life
So what goes on at a retreat at Corhaven? Christine Lee Buchholz tells us in a great article for The Washington Institute. Better than that though, she invites us to experience the richness of silence, which is not the absence of noise, but rather space for God. You...
by Bill Haley | Nov 3, 2012 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
Something Coracle seems to specialize in is being able to walk with those whose lives are on the front lines of seeing some of the worst that a broken world can throw, whether poverty, injustice, violence, and all sorts of disillusionment. Last week, I was grateful to...
by Bill Haley | Oct 10, 2012 | For the World, Peacemaking
We’ve made it, home. After 28 hours of travel from Kigali to Entebbe to Addis to Rome to Dulles to Corhaven, home. I’m deeply aware and grateful for the prayers of so many folks for us, they were all answered, in more abundance and gentility that we would have...
by Bill Haley | Oct 7, 2012 | Church Unity, For the World
It’s dawn in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 6am on Sunday morning in the lakeside town of Bukavu. It lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful city in Congo, sitting on the southern shore of Lake Kivu. We are here to meet with Archbishop Henri Isengoma,...
by Bill Haley | Oct 5, 2012 | For the World
We began our journey in eastern Congo (DRC) in Aru, a place spared much (though not all) of the violence that is so typical of this country. Anglican Relief and Development Fund helped establish a project in this diocese that we had the chance to see and evaluate, and...
by Bill Haley | Oct 5, 2012 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
In the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), The Bishop of the diocese of Aru was the first to say what we’ve heard several times since in the last two days since we arrived, “When you visit us, we know we are in your hearts, when you visit Congo...
by Bill Haley | Oct 4, 2012 | For the World
Today (Wednesday) we flew from Maridi to what is perhaps the most important symbolic town in South Sudan: Bor, in the eastern part of the country. It was here in 1983 that the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) first took up arms against those from the north that...
by Bill Haley | Oct 4, 2012 | For the World
Critical to the success of the new South Sudan, according to Archbishop Daniel Deng, are three things: agriculture, education, and health-care. Without these the people will not flourish or develop, and if the people don’t, the country won’t. And so, in the last 24...
by Bill Haley | Oct 4, 2012 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
It’s normal when I travel for our seven year old daughter, Iona, to give me a little something for my suitcase. For this trip, she offered a larger fluffy dolphin and a slightly smaller doll. “Those are great, sweetie,” I said, “but these ones might be a little too...
by Bill Haley | Oct 2, 2012 | For the World
In any country, there’s always a big difference between the city and the country. In Africa, multiply that by ten, or maybe twenty. In some of the regions of South Sudan, according to Archbishop Deng, there are those who still live “as they did when God...
by Bill Haley | Sep 30, 2012 | For the World
Of course, in South Sudan, there are all the challenges you expect to see in Africa: poverty, corruption, infrastructure yet to be developed and the roads to prove it, economic disparity, HIV and AIDS. And yet…and yet, our introduction to this land has so far...
