by Bill Haley | May 19, 2014 | Contemplative Life, For the World
Recently I was able to preach on this topic at The Falls Church Anglican. The audio version (link provided in the PDF) is half the length of what I’ve written and attached here. It was for me an opportunity to get onto the page some ideas I’ve been...
by Coracle | Feb 7, 2014 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
It was with the Telos Group and Todd Deatherage that I went to the Holy Land this past summer. Their work continues to be the most inspiring I’ve encountered recently on this troublesome and critical complex situation in the Holy Land, Middle East, and our...
by Bill Haley | Nov 22, 2013 | For the World
On the flight home now, still in and over this amazing part of God’s good earth where so many of the people of this earth live. While I’m on my way back, Bill Deiss will head on to Kuching, Malaysia for several days with Archbishop Bolly to see some of the...
by Bill Haley | Nov 20, 2013 | For the World
Bill and I had long meetings today in Singapore at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. We had a very profitable time with the Archbishop of the Province of Southeast Asia (CPSEA), Bolly Lapok from Kuching, Malaysia, Keith X who convenes the Economic Empowerment Task Force for the...
by Bill Haley | Nov 19, 2013 | For the World
The 55-story high Marina Bay Hotel and Park, with a giant ‘boat’ on top connecting the three towers, complete with pool, casino, restaurants, spa, and more. And why this photo sums up Singapore is that when Bill Deiss left Singapore in 1984, there was no...
by Bill Haley | Nov 19, 2013 | For the World
“They tried to put me in solitary confinement but that is actually impossible as God is everywhere.” James Mawdsley What would you go to jail for in Burma? Burma itself, in the case of James Mawdsley. Mawdsley is a Brit who, in the late 1990s, got...
by Bill Haley | Nov 18, 2013 | For the World
After hearing virtually every Anglican Burmese talk about the Archbishop’s vision for the Province of the Church of Myanmar (CPM), “Thy Will Be Done,” we were excited to hear it from Archbishop Stephen Than Myint Oo himself. He did not disappoint, and we were...
by Bill Haley | Nov 18, 2013 | Church Unity, For the World
In a country of 70 million people, there are 2.4 million Burmese Christian brothers and sisters… and most of them are Baptists. This is only part of the legacy of one of the church’s missionary greats. Being here has brought back to mind the life and ministry...
by Bill Haley | Nov 16, 2013 | For the World
The first question to get clarity on upon arrival is “What do I call this place? Yangon or Rangoon? Myanmar or Burma?” It’s a complicated question, not without risk of having one’s political tendencies assumed depending on which one you use. At the risk of...
by Bill Haley | Nov 15, 2013 | For the World
“For years, Burma’s plight was one of the most under-reported tragedies in the second half the twentieth century.” Benedict Rogers, Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads I’ve been aware of just how little I know about Burma as the days before entering near. The world is...
by Bill Haley | Nov 15, 2013 | For the World
We arrived after a full day’s journey from Washington to Singapore, 28 hours from door to door via Tokyo, Japan. Flying over Southeast Asia, the little flight map on the plane showed us the cities that lay sleeping below…Taipei, Taiwan; Manila and the cyclone...
by Bill Haley | Nov 11, 2013 | For the World
Dear friends and fellow-pilgrims…In a week’s time, I’ll be traveling to Burma and Singapore, and writing about it on our blog, and I hope you’ll come along for the journey! Following the pattern of mission reports from Congo and South Sudan, and Israel and...
by Bill Haley | Jun 30, 2013 | For the World, Pilgrimage
Recently I took a very strange pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine. Open the PDF for all the reflections from the trip. Israel Palestine blogs
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 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...
