by Coracle | Jun 20, 2017 | Contemplative Life
I love finishing my personal letters with a little ‘offering of soul’. This time it’s fly-fishing, and there’s much more to say about this at a later date. Going for trout with a fly rod is one of only a very few things that takes my mind off all else and one of the...
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 Erin Clifford | Jun 3, 2017 | Liturgical Seasons
“Just as the resurrection of Jesus opened up the unexpected world of God’s new creation, so the Spirit comes to us from that new world, the world waiting to be born, the world in which, according to the old prophets, peace and justice will flourish, and the wolf...
by Erin Clifford | May 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people.” -E. M. Bounds Which one of us has not grown weary in prayer and needed someone to intercede for us? In Scripture we...
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 Karla Petty | May 16, 2017 | Pilgrimage
“…it remains the case that Christianity is not, at its heart, a territorial religion.” -N.T. Wright You are a pilgrim. Whether or not you hold a passport, whether or not you’ve ever left your hometown, you are. Since people began to write things down, they have...
by Coracle | May 10, 2017 | For the World, Pilgrimage
We’re very thankful to Kevin Patterson for sharing his beautiful photography and reflections on the recent trip he took with Coracle and ARDF to Nepal. Read it here: Nepal Travel Journal.
by Abigail Whitehouse | Apr 21, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Last week I spent my day off doing a deep spring cleaning. I swept the dirty corners of my room, dusted-off countertops and opened all the windows of my house to let the fresh air in; and once everything was back in its place – dusted, cleaned, polished and...
by Coracle | Apr 20, 2017 | Contemplative Life, Pilgrimage
by: Katie Kallam Going into my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I knew that I would encounter holy places, sites where Jesus walked, where he lived and died, but I knew very little about the modern Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I...
by Coracle | Apr 17, 2017 | Pilgrimage
By John G. Gardner, Coracle Fellow ’17 NOTES FROM A PILGRIMAGE Several weeks ago, I had the privilege to be part of a pilgrimage jointly led by Telos and Coracle to Israel and Palestine. Rather than only visiting the holy sites connected with Jesus’ life, we...
by Coracle | Apr 15, 2017 | Pilgrimage
by Sharon Hoeck, Telos Group Office Manager At the beginning of last month, we gathered with many of you to talk about disrupting the status quo of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What does it look like to try to understand a reality that can be described by...
by Karla Petty | Apr 13, 2017 | For the World, Peacemaking, Pilgrimage
Sometimes I struggle with the dual nature of Christ: fully God and fully man. For me, it’s easier to see him as divine than as human. It keeps Him at a comfortable distance. From March 28 – April 6 I traveled with a group of 25 other pilgrims in the Holy Land...
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 Rick Mastroianni | Apr 7, 2017 | Contemplative Life
A reflection on the “God Loves You. . . No, Really” retreat “’You are the Beloved’ – My only desire is to make these words reverberate in every corner of your being.” — Henri Nouwen, The Life of the Beloved The symptoms sounded all too familiar: anxiety,...
by Erin Clifford | Mar 27, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Don’t the Bible say we must love everybody?” “O, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but then, nobody ever thinks of doing them.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Whether you are a new follower of Jesus, or have been one for many...
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 Scott Buresh | Mar 17, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Fifteen years ago my wife Peggy and I had the incredible opportunity of spending two weeks with Dallas Willard and a community of brothers and sisters at the Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center in Sierra Madre, California. As that week progressed we were given...
by Coracle | Mar 13, 2017 | Contemplative Life
Listen to Bill’s semon given at the Falls Church Anglican on March 12, 2017 on 1 Peter 1: Coracle · Born Again To A Living Hope
by Karla Petty | Mar 9, 2017 | Contemplative Life
“Originality consists in returning to the origin.” – Antoni Gaudí I hadn’t heard of Antoni Gaudí before spring of 2004 when I first visited Barcelona, but you can’t miss him once you’re there. Of the many works this master architect designed, his pièce de...
