Center for Action and Contemplation

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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.

Breath is the sustainer of life. We breathe together to invoke the spiritual strength to withstand and resist injustice. — Barbara Holmes Read Human Bodies: Week 2 Summary

The present sexual climate is the result of not finding an integrated and healing sexual ethic. We need a positive theology of sexuality, intimacy, and consent. — Richard Rohr Read Bearing the Mystery of God

Why did God let us get so excited about one another’s bodies and beauty? Could God be playing a trick on us? Of course not! — Richard Rohr Read Wholeness

Religion, as its root re-ligio (to “re-ligament”) indicates, is the task of putting our divided realities back together: human and divine, male and female. . . . — Richard Rohr Read Reuniting Our Separated Selves

An evolving universe gives us the freedom to be surprised and change our minds when reality doesn’t match our preconceived notions. It allows growth and change. — Richard Rohr Read The Essential Self and the Passing Self

I feel a responsibility to clarify some of the misunderstanding regarding marriage and sexuality that has led to pain, exclusion, and often abuse. — Richard Rohr Read Marriage

Sex combines embodied love and desire, conversation and communication, openness to the other, and even encounter with God. — Margaret Farley Read In Pursuit of Sexual Justice

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

"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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