by Coracle | Jun 10, 2025 | Justice and Mercy
Kathy R. Williamson Bruce shares with Coracle, “Where Can I Go From Here? — Action, Advocacy, and Allyship”. Kathy serves on the Coracle Baltimore Core Team. Kathy has been called to set tables designed to tear down walls of racial division and...
by NaTasha Brown | Jun 5, 2025 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
This month, all over the country, many people will gather to commemorate Juneteenth—June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation— with a complicated truth: we are...
by Bill Haley | Sep 6, 2024 | Justice and Mercy
Two steps forward, one step back. Three steps forward, two steps back. That’s how progress towards racial justice and healing in America can seem. So what does a follower of Jesus who longs for the Kingdom of God to come and for the Beloved Community to become real...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Jan 10, 2024 | For the World
Happy New Year!! Anyone who knows me knows that I love the beginning of a new year. A new year is full of the excitement of possibilities. As we sit at the beginning of this new year, I can assure you that what we, at the Repentance Project, have in store for 2024...
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 Kristy Wallace Grant | Aug 16, 2023 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,...
by Kristy Wallace Grant | Jun 13, 2023 | For the World, Justice and Mercy
“Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread – the bread of suffering – so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from...
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 Kristy Wallace Grant | Sep 28, 2022 | Justice and Mercy
We invite you to join us for a watch party of “Harriet” on Friday night Oct 14, and journey with us to Harriet Tubman sites in Cambridge, MD on Oct 15! Find out why below. “…I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” – Harriet Tubman The...
by Coracle | Feb 2, 2021 | Justice and Mercy
On Jan 30th, 2021, over 150 men and women from across the country tuned-in to this special time of teaching, learning, conversation, and prayer focused on how to equip ourselves for and step into the difficult but necessary work of racial reconciliation in our...
by Bill Haley | Jan 12, 2021 | Coracle News, Justice and Mercy
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6.12 Friends, there are many implications of...
by Coracle | Aug 25, 2020 | Justice and Mercy, Peacemaking
On August 20th, 2020, we had the pleasure of hosting Rev Darryl Ford of Ikon Community Church in Atlanta, GA, for an hour-long conversation about the need for the American Church to become an “anti-racist” institution. Bill Haley poses a series of...
by Coracle | Jun 19, 2020 | Justice and Mercy
On Juneteenth, 2020, we were honored to host over 500 people for a virtual service of Lament broadcast from the Corhaven Graveyard, a burial ground for 25 enslaved African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. We heard from a number of Christian leaders...
by Bill Haley | Jun 12, 2020 | Church Unity, Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy, Peacemaking
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I’m writing to you in the wake of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd and in the context of ongoing protests across the United States and the world calling for racial justice. I’m a Christian, and also...
by Coracle | Jun 8, 2020 | Contemplative Life, Justice and Mercy
Coracle has been deeply committed to the work of racial healing from our inception; God’s Kingdom encompasses all things, people, races, and cultures, and it breaks God’s heart to witness the systemic and sustained devaluation of men and women of color created in His...
by Bill Haley | Jun 4, 2020 | Justice and Mercy
We gathered to seek God’s will. We gathered to discern. We were black and white Christians, about 15 of us, from Orlando, D.C., Richmond, Minneapolis, and Atlanta, from churches, non-profits, foundations, and the government. We met at a small farm in Virginia’s...
by Bill Haley | Jan 7, 2020 | Coracle News, Justice and Mercy
Happy New Year everyone! We just finished the Christmas season, and I’ll bet you heard those powerful words in “O Holy Night” more than once: “Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace / Chains shall He break for the slave is our...
by Bill Haley | Dec 18, 2019 | Coracle News, Pilgrimage
Friends, there are some very exciting things coming up in 2020, and I really hope you’ll join in some of it. I can promise you adventure, God, heartache, joy, depth, wonder, and watching God do stuff in you, around you, and through you. Here are some highlights...
by Coracle | Sep 3, 2019 | Justice and Mercy
by Jacalyn Barnes, Director of the Repentance Project This is the question that resonated in my own heart as our country’s legacy of slavery and racism began to erupt in explosions of violence and terror. I turned to the Scriptures and wept. From the Old Testament to...
by Bill Haley | Feb 21, 2019 | For the World, Justice and Mercy, Liturgical Seasons
Brothers and sisters, we are ALL pained by the ongoing and exacerbated tensions around race in our moment. And I know if you’re reading this, you want to be part of the healing and part of the reconciliation. To help us do this, me and quite a few dear friends are now...
