Founded in 1987
Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation.
Acts of kindness nourish both giver and receiver. We celebrate World Kindness Day by featuring Richard Rohr’s Immortal Diamond, a book that reminds us that our true nature rests in endless compassion.
Discover a universal and inclusive framework for liberation from the stories that confine us in the new issue of ONEING, the biannual journal of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, and others invite us to explore new relationships with the stories that shape us, our neighbors, and the world.
As fellow travelers on the contemplative path, CAC staff recommendations include a mixture of both classic and recent materials including The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, The Naked Now, and Race and the Cosmos.
When the CONSPIRE conference series began in 2013, the finale seemed cast beyond the visible horizon. Yet conference by conference, CONSPIRE found its feet and together we walked the trails of the Alternative Orthodoxy towards that horizon. It was not a linear path. We could not always tell by sight or sound our exact
