by Bill Haley | Jun 3, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Creation
I hope that the weather where you live has been as interesting as here in the Washington area–unpredictable, unseasonable, and gorgeous. In recent months, nature has been speaking more deeply to me of God (for example, in the breathing trees). I’m grateful to be...
by Bill Haley | May 21, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
Sometimes called “the most influential pastor you’ve never heard of”, Gordon Cosby was one of my mentors. (Oh, what undeserved, mysterious Grace!) In retrospect, Gordon ranks high on the list of human beings who have not just taught me, but formed me. (How could I...
by Bill Haley | May 21, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
Friends, you’re invited to a special Coracle weekend, June 13-14, 2025. 1) A retreat experience on Saturday, June 14: “Spiritual Formation FOR Kingdom Action IN Community” from 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Our vision for this time is to have a shared experience for...
by Bill Haley | May 5, 2025 | Church Unity, Coracle News, For the World, Justice and Mercy
Join us for a presentation and discussion about “Race and Faith in America” in Arlington, VA on June 8. In his book Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie Glaude writes in 2021, “The American idea is indeed in trouble. It...
by Bill Haley | Apr 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Around this time two years ago, a friend gifted me with an insight that was not hers, but rather from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”: “Let him Easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us.” Easter as a verb! Wow!...
by Bill Haley | Mar 27, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Friends, I care about you, about your well being, your peaceableness, your deeper life in God, and each of our invitations to Christ-likeness, especially in this national moment in America. How might what we’re all going through be an agent of our personal deepening...
by Bill Haley | Mar 8, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
Dear friends, fellow pilgrims on the road, even when the road is uncertain and shifting…I don’t need to tell you it’s a challenging season in the United States with all the disruption, disorientation, fear and sadness that has been generated for so many. Living in...
by Bill Haley | Mar 5, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Liturgical seasons can act as guideposts through the year and Lent is a particularly special one. It’s easy to get caught up in the “sackcloth and ashes” part of Lent, with all the self-denial and focus on our own sin. This is important to remember, but not to be...
by Bill Haley | Feb 18, 2025 | Contemplative Life
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour.” from God of Grace, and God of Glory, words by Harry Emerson Fosdick. Y’all, these are indeed ‘times that try men’s (and women’s) souls’. Underneath every raging sea...
by Bill Haley | Jan 29, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Coracle News
Friends, in these crazy, difficult days of trying to absorb so many changes coming so fast, Coracle is leaning into our mission, our vision, and our values. You know–you’re a part of–our Mission, “to inspire and enable people to be the presence of God in the...
by Bill Haley | Jan 14, 2025 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us through a time of attuning to God’s presence in our here and now. Drawing together scripture, prayer, and music from Paul Zach, Bill offers us a chance to polish...
by Bill Haley | Jan 4, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In this “Space for God: Advent” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into an immersive encounter with the classic Christmas hymn, “O Holy Night.” By prayerfully engaging the lyrics and beholding two different...
by Bill Haley | Dec 5, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this Thanksgiving-week “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us into a practice of centering prayer. He focuses our attention on the many good gifts of God that we might often fail to notice in the hustle and...
by Bill Haley | Dec 3, 2024 | Coracle News
As we’ve been sharing over the past number of weeks, we are praising God for the ways He has been working in and around Coracle! In 2022, we went through a 40 day process of corporate discernment and were given a clear vision: to form “A community…with a mission of 1)...
by Bill Haley | Nov 19, 2024 | Contemplative Life
Before we knew the outcome of this year’s presidential election, we knew that all of us would need a chance to pause, remember Who is truly in control, and experience refreshment from the wonderfully loving rule of King Jesus. Bach’s B-Minor Mass is a...
by Bill Haley | Nov 13, 2024 | Contemplative Life
What would happen if…”A Generation of Believers Gathered Together for One Simple Purpose: To Build Relationships Now that will Transform the Future of the Church and the Culture?” This was the original vision statement for The Vine when we gathered in 1999. ...
by Bill Haley | Nov 7, 2024 | Contemplative Life
In this “Space for God” devotional, Rev. Bill Haley (Coracle Executive Director) guides us through an earnest litany of prayers for Election Day. Wherever you are coming from politically, we hope these prayers will draw us all closer to the heart of God in the...
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...
