Center for Action and Contemplation

Join wisdom teachers Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, and James Finley in an immersive experience of study and practice in the Christian contemplative tradition. Apply for the two-year Living School program today!

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CAC offers self-paced, online courses to support spiritual formation. Deepen your understanding of Fr. Richard Rohr’s teachings through guided study and reflection. Register now for Immortal Diamond, Breathing Under Water, or The Franciscan Way.

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Receive Richard Rohr’s free daily or weekly emails. Fr. Richard’s meditations help us rediscover Christianity’s essential, contemplative teachings and rebuild our spirituality “From the Bottom Up.”

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The spring issue of Oneing features both scholarly reflections and stories of transformative experiences from Paula D’Arcy, Wm Paul Young, Cynthia Bourgeault, Sam Shriver, poet David Whyte, and many others.

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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.

We believe that we must build on the positive, on what we love. Creative and life energies come from belief and from commitment. — Richard Rohr Read Rebuilding on a Contemplative Foundation: Weekly Summary

What might happen if we understood the cor Christian ethos as creative, constructive, and forward-leaning—as an “organizing religion”? — Brian McLaren Read A System of Beliefs or a Way of Life?

The new commandment of love meant neither beliefs nor words mattered most. Love decentered and took priority over everything else. — Brian McLaren Read Faith Expressed as Love

Faith points to an initial opening of the heart or mind space from our side. Faith is our small but necessary “yes” to any new change or encounter. — Richard Rohr Read An Open and Growing Heart

God gives us a spirit of questing, a desire for understanding; only this ongoing search for understanding will create compassionate and wise people. — Richard Rohr Read Welcome Darkness and Mystery

God refuses to be known intellectually. God can only be loved and known in the act of love; God can only be experienced in communion. — Richard Rohr Read Faith as Participation

We must move from a belief-based spirituality to a practice-based spirituality, or little will change in religion, politics, and the world. — Richard Rohr Read Waiting with Patience

The future of mature Christianity will be practice-based more than belief-based, which gives us nothing to argue about until we try it for ourselves. — Richard Rohr Read Faith and Belief: Weekly Summary

Why would God need a “blood sacrifice” before God could love God’s creation? Is God that needy, unloving, rule-bound, and unforgiving? — Richard Rohr Read Substitutionary Atonement

My understanding of the atonement theory is not heretical or new, but has quite traditional and orthodox foundations. — Richard Rohr Read A Nonviolent Atonement

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“Love and justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change; without collective change, no change matters.”

"The more we are transformed in compassion, the more we are impelled to act with compassion toward others."

"Trinity is a pattern in the very fabric of reality—coded into all of creation. It offers a fresh understanding of a creative and contemplative engagement in the world."

"To be transformed is to look out at reality from a new source and center, seeing things in a larger and more holistic way."

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