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Join Richard Rohr, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Mirabai Starr for CONSPIRE 2018, August 31-September 2, via online webcast. Explore the path of descent as the way of transformation.

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Receive Richard Rohr’s free daily or weekly emails. Fr. Richard’s meditations explore how we can incarnate love by unveiling the image and likeness of God in all that we see and do.

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A new book by Richard Rohr, Essential Teachings on Love, weaves biographical vignettes from Father Richard's own life with classic meditations on his central theme: the foundation of the universe is Love.

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Join us in silent meditation on Facebook! We're sharing our contemplative "sit" via live video the first Tuesday of every month, 8:30 a.m. US MDT. Simply "like" Center for Action and Contemplation to be notified when we go live.

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Enjoy Richard Rohr’s homilies here or find his podcast on iTunes. Fr. Richard speaks occasionally at his local parish, Holy Family Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short sermons are recorded and made available by the CAC.

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Our bookstore now carries several titles from our core faculty members James Finley and Cynthia Bourgeault. Explore their insights on Thomas Merton, meditation, Centering Prayer, the Trinity, the Wisdom Jesus, and more.

What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. — Terry Tempest Williams Read Gender and Sexuality: Week 1 Summary

God is beyond gender, of course. Yet Genesis says that both male and female are included in “the image of God” (1:27). — Richard Rohr Read Feminine and Masculine Principles

Sexuality and spirituality emerge from the same foundation and have the same goal: universal love. — Richard Rohr Read Union: The Foundation and Goal

To reclaim Mary Magdalene is to reclaim Christianity. Without her, our understanding of what Jesus really taught is incomplete. — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Reclaiming Women’s Wisdom

If Jesus shows us what the completed human being looks like in male form, Mary Magdalene models it for us in its female version — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Mary Magdalene

While my religious order is far from perfect, I appreciate how Franciscanism has honored and embraced the feminine side of things. — Richard Rohr Read Franciscan Feminism

"Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable."

Join us in awakening a more loving world! We're looking for several skilled individuals to join our team.

"The most powerful, most needed, and most essential teaching is always about Love. Love is our foundation and our destiny. It is where we come from and where we’re headed."

"In the beginning there is darkness. It is the womb out of which we are born. Darkness may be the blessed dimming of ego-driven striving, a destination and condition of safety and repose."

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