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...
by Bill Haley | Nov 15, 2023 | Coracle News
Dear friends and fellow pilgrims, I’ll keep this letter brief as most of what I want to say is in Coracle’s vision for 2024, “The Light Shines in the Darkness”, and I want to tell you about that. But let me start by saying “Thank you!” Thank you. Your participation...
by Bill Haley | Nov 8, 2023 | Coracle News
I am so excited to begin our next Fellowship cohorts in January and I wanted to make sure that you knew about it! We have two cohort opportunities coming up in 2024 – in-person in the NoVA/DC area and one completely virtual. Our Fellowship program offers 12...
by Bill Haley | Oct 12, 2023 | Coracle News
We’ve been working on this for a while, and it’s finally here! Now fully able to be used by individuals, churches, small groups, or groups of friends—our course “Essential Christianity” is now completely available online in video or audio formats (on Teachable.com),...
by Jeff Lindeman | Oct 4, 2023 | Coracle News
We want to extend two invitations for you to join us at the Coracle Arlington Ministry Space. First, you are invited to join the Coracle Fellows for a retreat this Saturday (Oct. 7th), “Take, Eat, Be: The Eucharistic Life.” If you’re wondering why you...
by Jeff Lindeman | Sep 19, 2023 | Coracle News
It is my favorite moment in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. The American sprinter Jackson Sholz hands Eric Liddell, the UK runner, a handwritten note just before Liddell’s 400 meter race. The note begins, “It says in the Old Book…”. I encourage you to watch the scene...
by Chris Lugo | Sep 14, 2023 | Coracle News
Applications for the Coracle Fellowship 2024 in- person and online are now open! A few weeks ago I wrote about the opportunity for flourishing through our Fellowship Program here at Coracle. I spoke of the beauty that this program provides and how you or someone you...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2023 | Coracle News
Dear Friends on the Journey, Fellow Pilgrims, I couldn’t be more excited coming into this fall. Yes, I’m excited by what is coming up for you and all of us through Coracle’s offerings (more on that below), but more deeply it’s because of the palpable sense that the...
by Jeff Lindeman | Jul 26, 2023 | Coracle News
As we enter the third week of Coracle’s mid-year campaign, I want to thank everyone who has supported Coracle through your prayers and with your financial gifts! Both of these are instrumental in sustaining Coracle as we together pursue the mission of Spiritual...
by Jeff Lindeman | Jul 21, 2023 | Coracle News
Grateful. Expectant. Excited. These words characterize the atmosphere throughout Coracle as we’ve reached the midway point of 2023. We feel like a team, well led and well prepared by the Lord for what is next. I’m eager to tell you a bit more about that. Grateful. We...
by Jeff Lindeman | Jun 15, 2023 | Coracle News
Dear Friends, Coracle, as you know, announced The Next Journey towards the end of 2022, and I am excited today to share how God has been working to bring about our desire to more significantly incarnate our focus on Community, Mission, and Spaces! As we have sought...
