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Center for Action and Contemplation

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Seeing Nature as an Artist With Christy Berghoef and Thomas Jay Oord

Seeing Nature as an Artist With Christy Berghoef and Thomas Jay Oord

How does nature inspire your sense of creativity? On this episode, we’re looking at nature through the artistic lens, with Brian McLaren and two gifted photographers, Christy…

Daily Meditations

Love in the Created World  

Love in the Created World  

Transitus of Francis of Assisi  What would you do today if you knew you might die tomorrow?  —Francis of Assisi, Letter to the Faithful   Drawing on an…

ONLINE EDUCATION

Falling Upward Course Featuring Richard Rohr

Join us this autumn for Falling Upward: A Spiritual Journey — an online course based on Fr. Richard Rohr’s book of the same name. Register by October 8. 

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Register Now for Students of Life: The Webcast

What if you could embrace all of life as an opportunity for prayer and connection? Join us live online Nov. 1-3 (or watch the replay) as we explore ways to transform and heal our hurting world. 

“There is a deep relationship between the inner revolution of prayer and the transformation of social structures and social consciousness. Our hope lies in the fact that meditation is going to change the society that we live in, just as it has changed us.”

—RICHARD ROHR

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Dancing with the Divine Fire

When God invites us to dance, sometimes it’s to a song of despair or uncertainty. Dr. Barbara Holmes invites us to dance with whatever rhythm is moving in our lives. 

“Contemplation embodies compassion. The more we are transformed in compassion, the more we act with compassion toward others.”

—JAMES FINLEY

CAC NEWS

Living in Alignment in September’s We Conspire series 

What if we were totally aligned in our words and our actions? Many of us who feel deeply about the state of the world are free to speak when we see injustice—but what if all our actions supported the spiritual truths that we held dear? We’re inspired by Francis of Assisi who writes, “As you announce peace

Sketch Drawing of the Bell Tower at the Visitor Center at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, NM

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