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 Bill Haley | Nov 24, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Over a decade ago, Rev. Bill Haley was invited to lead a retreat for Christ Church Austin on a topic of his choosing. Unsurprisingly, he chose to explore “Spiritual Formation for Kingdom Action,” and over the course of 5 keynote lectures, he cast an...
by NaTasha Brown | Oct 2, 2025 | For the World
In a world that grows louder with conflict and confusion, the God-given right to speak is under pressure. As followers of Christ, we must hold fast not only to our right to speak truth but to do so in love. The legal right to express one’s thoughts, even when they’re...
by Jessica Clark | Oct 1, 2025 | Contemplative Life
Are you… Longing for More and wanting to move deeper in your relationship with God? At a crossroads in your life and wanting to process where you’ve been and where you’re going, discerning God’s next step? Ready to step further into the beauty and brokenness of...
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 | 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 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 | 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 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 Bill Haley | Aug 8, 2023 | Contemplative Life
“You look around, and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist or say ‘Hallelujah’…I try to do both.” Leonard Cohen I am back from Sabbatical. It was wonderful, restful, beauty-full, and...
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...
by Jeff Lindeman | Apr 25, 2023 | Justice and Mercy
At our Second Wednesdays meeting in February, Coracle explored the connection between “Spiritual Formation and Justice”. We hosted a conversation with Rev. Bill Haley, Coracle’s Executive Director; Kristy Wallace Grant, Director of The Repentance Project; and Rev....
by Jeff Lindeman | Mar 29, 2023 | Coracle News
Bill Haley, Coracle’s Executive Director, is going on sabbatical. This is a good and happy thing after 25+ years in ministry! We are delighted that the Coracle board saw the value of this for Bill at this time and that our staff are very supportive. From mid-April...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Mar 15, 2023 | Liturgical Seasons
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 At noon on Ash Wednesday, a handful of us gathered online for Wednesday Noonday Prayer. While some came wearing ashes, we all arrived in that virtual...
by Bill Haley | Mar 7, 2023 | Coracle News
Over the past several months you likely have heard us talking about “The Next Journey” for Coracle. The Next Journey, which came from our corporate discernment last summer, focuses on Community, Mission, and (initially) four Spaces. Thematically, The Next Journey...
by Coracle | Feb 27, 2023 | Contemplative Life, Creation
Carly Smith, a participant in our 2022 Coracle Fellowship cohort, shares a poetic response to her time in the program and what she learns about the truth of God from watching nature around her. Chrysalis WhispersI gaze on you young one. You fill your life with green....
by Chris Lugo | Feb 21, 2023 | Liturgical Seasons
This week we will be celebrating two important moments in the church calendar: Ash Wednesday and Lent. Ash Wednesday starts by focusing the Christian’s heart on repentance and prayer, usually through personal and communal confession. Lent likewise is a 40-day period...
