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We Conspire: The Prophetic Path

June 12th, 2026
We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month.   SUBSCRIBE TODAY June’s We Conspire stories explore prophetic

A Different Kind of Prophet

June 12th, 2026
We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month. SUBSCRIBE TODAY The Franciscan Action Network is quietly forming a

Jesus as Prophet

June 12th, 2026
We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month. SUBSCRIBE TODAY In a 2024 ONEING essay, CAC Core Faculty member

Finding Hope Beyond Ecological Despair

June 12th, 2026
We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month. SUBSCRIBE TODAY In an age of ecological collapse and spiritual

News from New Mexico | Connect LIVE with Beloved Teachers in the CAC Community

Our News from New Mexico newsletter provides you with opportunities to help you engage in the content and work of the Center for Action and Contemplation. This summer, we invite you to discover practices that can support transformation and inspire loving action. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Explore June’s Featured

Basking in the Tension

May 28th, 2026
When I lived in Venice, California from 2013–2018, I made a habit of getting outside for sunset. At the time, I lived near family, including two of my nephews. In autumn, I’d hustle home to Venice from Pasadena just so I could lay my eyes on the pinks and oranges hovering above the Pacific Ocean. I’d often

The Bible as Good News for a Fractured World

May 28th, 2026
Our world is deeply fractured. We see the symptoms all around us. We see it in politics. We see it in social media. We see it in our families and denominations. Those fractures couldn’t come at a worse time. We need to come together as never before to address our environmental and climate crises, to resist

The World Needs People Who Are Alive

May 28th, 2026
My son, Javi, is a high school senior and now applying for colleges. He is still in the early stages, dreaming and imagining himself on a career path on which he might earn a good living and contribute something meaningful to the world. The other day, in a moment of excitement, he sent me a text message that

The Gift of the Moment

May 28th, 2026
Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life—when you are arrested by the sunset or swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs—are not throw-away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things.—Valarie Kaur My spirituality has always

Following the Sound of the Genuine

May 28th, 2026
Let me take you back to 2014, the year my journey with CAC began. I was the 32-year-old CEO of Invisible Children, an international nonprofit working to prevent violence in communities across East and Central Africa threatened by the Lord’s Resistance Army. We supported local interventions to protect civilians and

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