Center for Action and Contemplation

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 Breathing Under Water, Immortal Diamond, or The Franciscan Way.

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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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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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A new issue of CAC's journal, Oneing, features articles on "Anger" by Richard Rohr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Joan Halifax, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, Mirabai Starr, and others. Order the limited edition copy soon!

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We're looking for several skilled individuals to join our team and help us awaken a more loving world. Do you know someone who's greatest joy and talent might meet our needs? Share the job posting with them!

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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 need grace to change our thinking and seeing so that we can work for the good of all rather than demonizing the “other” — Richard Rohr Read Politics: Week 1 Summary

As a follower of both Jesus and Francis of Assisi, my primary moral viewpoint is not based in the well-being of those who are on top but at the bottom. — Richard Rohr Read Another Power

Without the nondual mind, it’s almost impossible for us to find another way of doing politics. Grounding social action in contemplative consciousness is not a luxury for a few but a cultural necessity. — Richard Rohr Read Service Instead of Domination

The real conversion confronting humanity today is a transformation of consciousness rather than mechanistic changes in human or social behaviour. — Diarmuid O'Murchu Read The Politics of Connectedness

Hold the tension of discerning how to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, how to honor the heart of another nation as we honor our own homeland. . . . — John Philip Newell Read Hope and Humility

"Our goal in the Living School is full incarnation—taking incarnation to its conclusions that there is no such thing as profane; there is no such thing as secular. It is one sacred universe, beloved of God."

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"You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge. All mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning."

"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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