by Bill Haley | Jan 7, 2026 | Coracle News
Friends, I’m really excited for our upcoming retreat and workshop, Listening Well, on Saturday, January 24, from 8:30am to noon at the Coracle Center (register here). During our time we will be guided by three wise women–spiritual directors, friends, and members of...
by Bill Haley | Dec 10, 2025 | Coracle News
Friends, as I mentioned last week, we’re delighted to offer our vision for 2026– “Building the Fire”. I’m tempted to write a lot here, but we say it all in the document so I won’t steal its thunder and instead would genuinely and sincerely ask you to...
by Bill Haley | Dec 3, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow-pilgrims, Around this time last year I wrote to you that 2025 looked like it was going to be challenging and full of uncertainty. Halfway through the year, I wrote to you that the world seemed to be getting darker by the day. Well…all of that...
by Coracle | Nov 21, 2025 | Coracle News
Peace. Refuge. Safety. Sanctuary. Sacred. Rest. Beauty. Presence. Welcome. Hospitality. Bounty. Love. These are some of the words we hear most often from visitors to Corhaven. Since 2009, we have welcomed thousands to this place of “rest for the heart.”...
by Bill Haley | Jun 18, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow-pilgrims, I am excited to write to you today with two big announcements! 1. We are launching The Coracle Center of Formation for Action, the clear vision of our ministry space here in Arlington, VA and across Coracle. (If you were at our events...
by Bill Haley | Jun 11, 2025 | Coracle News
Dear friends, still basking in the glow of Pentecost, I offer you this from Wilfrid Stinissen: “The Spirit is not content with burning only in the center of your being. He longs to illumine and inflame your whole being so that you not only have a fire within you, but...
by Coracle | Jun 4, 2025 | Coracle News
We are sad to share the news of the passing of Desiree Barker, one of Coracle’s early spiritual directors, on May 30 in Hoover, Alabama. Desiree was a beautiful and compassionate soul who deeply cared for others and accompanied many others on their deeper spiritual...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Scott Buresh | Jul 23, 2024 | Coracle News
The Coracle Fellowship in Baltimore starts its third cohort in person on Saturday, September 14th and we hope you can join us! This time, instead of taking 20 months for this powerful journey of spiritual formation and transformation, we’re doing it in 10 months. We...
by Coracle | May 21, 2024 | Coracle News
You’re invited to join us for an evening of community, food, and stories of growth, as we celebrate God’s work in and through Coracle, at our first-ever fundraising event on June 6! Please RSVP by May 28 to Jessica Clark.
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 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 Chris Lugo | Feb 16, 2024 | Coracle News, For the World
Dear Friends, The last time I wrote to you I told the story about my parents and how they learned English. It was hard for both of them and it was their story that left a mark on my own story. Stories are an important part of being human. Recently, I was watching a...
by Chris Lugo | Jan 19, 2024 | Coracle News
Many of you may not know that my parents immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970’s. My mother was brought by my grandmother in her teens while my father escaped through joining the military. Both came from poverty and neither knew English very well when they came to the...
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...
