by Bill Haley | Apr 23, 2025 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Around this time two years ago, a friend gifted me with an insight that was not hers, but rather from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”: “Let him Easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us.” Easter as a verb! Wow!...
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 17, 2023 | Contemplative Life
“SOUNDINGS” posts consider topics that are important for our society, for the Church, and for our own spiritual journeys. To ‘take a sounding’ is a nautical term about using depth to determine where you are and where you’re going. These writings are designed to do...
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 Ken Wettig | Apr 18, 2023 | Coracle News
Without a few harrowing twists and turns, stories can quickly lose any sense of plot, on the other hand without an ultimate redemptive conclusion, it doesn’t much seem like a story at all. Over the last decade of life I have come to embrace a conviction, which I...
by Jeff Lindeman | Apr 12, 2023 | Liturgical Seasons
HAPPY EASTER! Proclamation: “He is risen!” Reply: “The Lord is risen indeed! Together: “Alleluia!” This moment, as I write, is Easter Monday morning. The sun is out. The trees are in flower and budding. The sky is a cloudless blue. The forecast is for a beautiful...
by Coracle | Mar 21, 2023 | Contemplative Life
Brent Snader, a participant in our 2022 Coracle Fellowship cohort, shares a poetic response to his time in the program. The River of Love Formed by the Spirit to serve my King There is no greater goal, no higher thing. Thanks be to God the work is already begun...
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 Kristy Wallace Grant | Dec 20, 2022 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Mary responded, “Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and from now on all generations will call me blessed. For the Mighty One is holy, and he has done great things for me. He shows...
by Ken Wettig | Jun 3, 2022 | Creation, For the World
What is a more important Kingdom Action priority, gun violence prevention, creation care, or racial justice? What often gets our attention is whatever is trending on the news cycle. I am no exception. Two trips to Canada within the last year highlight this tension....
by Rick Campanelli | Mar 14, 2022 | Contemplative Life
Over twenty years ago, during one of those unhappy times when I was facing some uncertainty about the paths before me and, focused on my own confusion, feeling remote from the Lord’s comforting presence, I came upon this wonderful prayer and hymn attributed to St....
by Coracle | Sep 28, 2020 | Contemplative Life
Since the fall of 2020, we have offered weekly opportunities to make “Space for God” at the start of our day. We gather online every Tuesday morning from 8:30-9:00 AM (ET).Join Us at Next Tuesday’s “Space for God”On this page, we will be...
by Bill Haley | Apr 17, 2019 | Liturgical Seasons
(I offered these reflections today at The Falls Church Anglican) This Good Friday, we remember the seven last words of Jesus from the cross. Seven last gasps. The Apostle John said of Jesus that if a person tried to write down all the things he did and said, the...
by Coracle | Apr 1, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
By Ann Bodling, Coracle Spiritual Director Some time ago, a spiritual director spoke the words to my husband…”Own who you are!” But what to do when we don’t remember very clearly, when forces beyond our control cause us to forget? The little...
by Bill Haley | Mar 28, 2019 | Peacemaking
Tomorrow I’ll fly to the Holy Land with another 17 pilgrims for a very unusual experience of Israel and Palestine. Todd Deatherage of The Telos Group and I will co-lead it, our fourth trip doing this together. It’ll be my sixth trip following in the literal...
by Coracle | Mar 26, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation, Vocation
by Carla Mueller, Coracle Associate Last fall, I felt the Lord inviting me into an extended season of rest. 30+ years of performance orientation and a career of fulfilling that drive for achievement working in a Los Angeles public school had left me exhausted. Dry....
by Bill Haley | Mar 22, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a lot to do! Most people I know really want to make a difference in the world and make it a better place for more people. Many of us struggle to pray more and be with God more deeply as the deepest way we respond to the...
by Wade Ballou | Mar 20, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Liturgical Seasons
Friends, we are well into our season of Lent. I have come to see this season as an invitation by Christ to lean in to be in him and with him in union with the Father, through the strength of the Holy Spirit. The idea of Lent and its practices have developed over many...
by Karla Petty | Mar 13, 2019 | Contemplative Life
Bedtime stories. Epic ballads. Campfire tales. They are the stories that never grow old, that fade in one form only to emerge again arrayed with different adjectives, a different detail or two, but recognizable to anyone. When we were very young, my older brother and...
by Bill Haley | Mar 8, 2019 | Contemplative Life, Creation
I love Lent. Somehow it gives me the opportunity again to honestly own what I deeply know––I am a sinner, and sin. In the words of the confession from the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (see below) which we sometimes still say, “There is no health in us”. Lent reminds...
