2026 Daily Meditations Theme: Good News for a Fractured World
Reclaim the Bible’s Message of Liberation and Wholeness for our Time.
Our world feels more fractured than ever. How do we reclaim the Bible as truly good news, rather than a weapon that wounds?
This year’s Daily Meditations invite us to rediscover the liberating message of Scripture that contributes to the world’s mending, rather than its breaking. Each week, we’ll explore what it would mean for us to turn to the Bible to inspire our contemplation and loving action — our inner and outer wholeness. Join us throughout 2026 as we explore Good News for a Fractured World.
“If, in reading the Gospels, we do not hear Jesus speaking to our contemporary situation, we are missing their meaning.”
—Fr. Richard Rohr
What is the Good News for Our Fractured World?
Embrace your brokenness as part of a “fractured world” and open up to Divine love with this teaching from CAC Core Faculty Dr. James Finley.
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CAC Core Faculty Brian McLaren introduces the 2026 Daily Meditations theme of Good News for a Fractured World.
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“Through our daily contemplation and daily down-to-earth action, may we become agents of healing and wholeness.”
—Brian McLaren
Viewing the Bible Through a Different Lens
Many people avoid the Bible — and for understandable reasons. It has been used to justify harm and oppression. It can feel far removed from our lives today.
But what happens when we read the Bible through a different lens, guided by contemplative teachers and ancient wisdom? What happens when — informed by modern scholarship — we approach the Bible as a library of sacred texts that invites us to the conversation? How might the Bible reveal good news, and how might we become good news, for our fractured world?
Throughout the Scriptures, we meet a Divine Love that frees the oppressed, heals the wounded, includes the outcast, and challenges systems of evil. From courageous prophets to flawed followers, we learn that everything and everyone belongs in the Divine embrace.
Fr. Richard writes, “These early Christian documents… are not about the life of Jesus then; they are about life with Jesus now. If in reading the Gospels we do not hear Jesus speaking to our contemporary situation, we are missing their meaning.”
The Bible is a story of transformation, as are our own lives and stories. Good News for a Fractured World calls us to live in the flow of action and contemplation — a rhythm central to CAC’s mission. Discover more about the Bible, mystics, justice, healing, and wholeness. Embody contemplative practices, perhaps for the first time.
“For spiritually alive people, for people of deep and genuine faith, we don’t want to surrender to despair and cynicism and reactivity and fragmentation.”
—Brian McLaren
Discover Christian Contemplative Wisdom and Practices
This year’s Daily Meditations on Good News for a Fractured World invite us into a renewed understanding of the Bible and its meaning for our modern societies. Together, we’ll enter into a contemplative practice that nurtures ongoing transformation and draws us toward acts of love that ripple through our lives and communities.
Each week in this year’s Daily Meditations we will explore a topic within the larger theme. On Saturday, a summary email will offer an overview including reflections, practices, and closing thoughts about that week’s meditations. Readers can learn from and with each other through weekly conversations on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Daily Meditations interviews and practice videos on YouTube.
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