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.

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

Franciscans never believed that “blood atonement” was required for God to love us. Christ was Plan A from the very beginning. — Richard Rohr Read Incarnation Instead of Atonement

God is found in all things, even and most especially in the painful, tragic, sinful things—exactly where we do not want to look for God. — Richard Rohr Read Saved by the Cross

Authentic mystical experience connects us and keeps connecting us at ever-newer levels, breadths, and depths, “until God is all in all.” — Richard Rohr Read Deepening Connection

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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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