by Bill Haley | Oct 26, 2018 | Contemplative Life
Some authors are worth coming back to again and again. Dallas Willard is one of those for me. Dallas will, for a profound lack of a better phrase, rock your world, if you do the hard work to understand what he’s getting at! His thoughts and contributions are like...
by Bill Haley | Sep 20, 2018 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
On a layover this week* through Vienna, Austria on the way to Cyprus, I was reminded of one reason why getting out of my home country on a somewhat regular basis has been, for about 25 years, almost a spiritual discipline. International airport hubs are like swimming...
by Bill Haley | Jun 22, 2018 | Contemplative Life
In Jesus’ life, he had many conversations with his Father in prayer. At times, we know Jesus’ side of the conversation, what he said. But we don’t have many accounts of what God the Father said to God the Son. There are three times God the Father spoke in audible...
by Bill Haley | Jun 11, 2018 | 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 | Jun 7, 2018 | For the World, Pilgrimage
I’ve just returned from Bethlehem where I attended the “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference convened by Bethlehem Bible College, The Holy Land Trust, Musalaha, Bethlehem Lutheran Christmas Church, and others. The theme of the fifth annual conference was “Jesus...
by Bill Haley | May 7, 2018 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
What follows is Bill Haley’s reflection on the Life of Martin Luther King, given at the Trinity Forum Community Conversation on April 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This event was co-hosted by Coracle and featured David Bailey of Arrabon and Rev. Dr. Cheryl...
by Bill Haley | Mar 30, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Spiritual Direction
The power of God was shown most clearly at the resurrection of Jesus. God defeated death. The love of God was shown most clearly on the cross of Christ. God poured out his life for us. And Jesus said, “Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John...
by Bill Haley | Feb 9, 2018 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love. – John 15:9 As we move into Lent next Wednesday, here are some thoughts that are helpful to keep firmly in mind and heart. When you’re going to truly consider and climb down into the depth of...
by Bill Haley | Jan 29, 2018 | For the World, Justice and Mercy, Liturgical Seasons
In every way Jesus was the Great Reconciler, bridging the gap between God and us, and also bringing together disparate and divided people into community and even family. To follow this man is to sign up to be a reconciler and peacemaker, especially in places and times...
by Bill Haley | Jan 4, 2018 | Contemplative Life
Happy New Year, friends! As 2018 begins to unfold, no doubt it will be an interesting year for each one of us, full of challenges and joys. Some of those joys and challenges maybe we can anticipate, and many we have no idea are coming! But we can be assured that...
by Bill Haley | Dec 26, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
In the very early hours of December 24, 2017, my mom –JoAnn Neburka Haley– passed on from this life to the next, having lived 83 years on this earth and forever in the world to come. It was not a surprise to us, we’d known it was coming these past two years and these...
by Bill Haley | Nov 13, 2017 | Spiritual Direction
Do you ever wish you had someone who would come alongside you, to be with you in your journey, to deeply listen to your heart, someone who wouldn’t tell you what to do but rather simply to help you listen to God? Do you feel like God is inviting you to More but...
by Bill Haley | Sep 5, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Describing his conversion, CS Lewis wrote “Into the region of awe, in deepest solitude there is a road right out of the self, a commerce with…the naked Other, imageless (though our imagination salutes it with a hundred images), unknown, undefined, desired.” It’s a...
by Bill Haley | Jun 16, 2017 | Contemplative Life
I am in anguish… It lit something in me. It was such a brief conversation a couple of months ago while walking the littered streets of Bethlehem, but its effect is having the effect of focusing my attention like a laser. On our last Coracle/Telos trip to the Israel...
by Bill Haley | May 22, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Listen here to Bill Haley’s sermon given at The Falls Church Anglican on May 21, 2017: Coracle · Don’t Fear Suffering, Rather…
by Bill Haley | May 18, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Over the years of my life, I’ve seen something happen enough times to be able to recognize something of a pattern that ends up really changing things for me, super-charging my heart and giving me new passion and vision. It’s when some deep truth–ubiquitous in the...
by Bill Haley | Apr 12, 2017 | For the World, Pilgrimage
CLICK HERE for a compilation of Bill Haley’s reflections from pilgrimages taken solo and also with Telos Group to the Holy Land over the years.
by Bill Haley | Mar 26, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.” Neh. 5.19 Pray and Be Strange for God’s sake, your good, and others…and expect costly opposition A few years ago I had the opportunity to make my first trip to China, to Shanghai. Two things...
by Bill Haley | Mar 3, 2017 | Pilgrimage
The slum of Danaseri in Kathmandu, Nepal is a sacred place on par with the island of Iona in Scotland, St. Peter’s in Rome, Jerusalem, and Lourdes. Danaseri doesn’t look like much at the first glance. It looks like a place you wouldn’t want to go to or spend much time...
by Bill Haley | Mar 2, 2017 | Pilgrimage
To the American mind, the caste system is almost impossible to comprehend. Because of our Declaration of Independence it is engrained (though inconsistently applied) in our national psyche that ‘all men are created equal’. In Nepal because of Hinduism, this is not...
