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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 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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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.

Visio Divina facilitates a relationship with an image or subject, patiently being with it, receptive in mind and heart, perhaps even in dialogue with it. — Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler Read Art: Week 1 Summary

In expressing all the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the psalms act as good psychologists. — Kathleen Norris Read The Psalms

The core elements out of which the world came into being and through which it is sustained are breath, tone, intentionality, and community. — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Chant: Discovering Your Voice

Poetry seduces and entices you into being a searcher for the Mystery. It creates the heart leap, the gasp of breath, inspiring you to go further and deeper. — Richard Rohr Read Poetry

Joy Unspeakable is not silent, it moans, hums, and bends to the rhythm of a dancing universe. It is a fractal of transcendent hope, a hologram of God’s heart. — Barbara Holmes Read Joy Unspeakable

Like the familiar laments in Psalms, blues artists forthrightly engaged the issues in life that the church would not discuss—such as sexuality, theodicy, and despair. — Barbara Holmes Read Blues and Jazz: Lament and Improvisation

"Anger as a response to injustice is spiritually healthy. A theology of anger invites us to shake off the shackles of denial, resignation, and nihilism. It can help us construct healthy boundaries."

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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