What’s New

Order, Disorder, Reorder

ONEING is the biannual journal of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC). The latest edition brings together all five faculty of the CAC to share perspectives on what Richard Rohr calls “order, disorder, reorder” — the repeating universal pattern of transformation and resurrection that connects and solidifies our relationships with everything around us.

Coming Up

CONSPIRE 2021

Discover your place in the emerging contemplative community of people committed to the intentional work of personal transformation, embodied practice, and engaged living. The capstone conference in a seven-year series on Richard Rohr’s alternative orthodoxy takes place Sept. 24 – 26.

Who We Are

Franciscan Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in 1987 because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation—the two are inseparable. As Father Richard says, the most important word in our Center’s name is neither Action nor Contemplation, but the word and.

What we do

Richard Rohr’s vision has always been about providing spiritual grounding for a movement of contemplative activists, prophetic leaders, and spiritual seekers. In the tradition of Jesus, St. Francis, and all mystics, the role of the Center for Action and Contemplation is to provide spiritual wisdom and guidance to support both inner and outer transformation.

Our Teachers

As Richard Rohr enters his last chapter of public life, the Center for Action and Contemplation faces a unique opportunity to build upon the legacy of his five decades of teaching in support of the emerging contemplative renewal within Christianity.