Embracing Our Tears | The News from New Mexico
Discover new opportunities for spiritual growth with these upcoming experiences from the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)! The News from New Mexico, our monthly newsletter, features opportunities to grow your consciousness and realign your faith, values, and actions.
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Explore February’s Featured Experiences
Learn more about these opportunities to further your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation.
Brian McLaren Reflects on Being Salt and Light
This year’s Daily Meditations theme of Being Salt and Light invites us into a way of seeing that unites our beliefs with how we live and serve. In these uncertain and unsettling times, reconnecting to a daily contemplative practice can offer hope, grounding, and clarity.
Through 2025’s Daily Meditations, we’ll deepen into a contemplative practice that nurtures ongoing transformation and draws us toward acts of love that ripple through our lives and communities.
In this video, Brian McLaren offers his thoughts on why this theme can speak to living in the flow of action and contemplation as we move through 2025. Watch as Brian McLaren reflects on the theme of “Being Salt and Light.”
“What Do I Do With My Anger?” Online Event
I have become convinced that most anger comes, first of all, from a place of deep sadness. —Richard Rohr
How do we navigate our anger and grief in our world today? Gather with us online for What Do I Do With My Anger? to explore contemplative wisdom for our age of outrage.
Join us in a shared online space to explore important questions alongside CAC founder Fr. Richard Rohr and CAC Dean of Faculty, Brian McLaren. All those who register by March 13 will receive access to the recorded replay for one full year.
What Do I Do with My Anger?
Friday, March 14, 2025, 10 – 11:30am PT
Featuring Richard Rohr and Brian McLaren
Presented by the Center for Action and Contemplation
New Online Course! Plus, CAC Pausing Most Online Courses in 2025
In April 2025, CAC will launch a brand-new course inspired by Richard Rohr’s book “The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.“The course will run on a new learning platform designed to foster deeper engagement and stronger student connections.
We’ve also made the thoughtful decision to pause most of our online courses in 2025, with two exceptions. In July 2025, we will open registration for Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey, and in September 2025, registration will open for Mystical Sobriety. Both courses will be offered on a new learning platform.
We appreciate your patience as we work to improve and expand our online course offerings in service to our mission of introducing Christian contemplative wisdom and practices that support transformation and inspire loving action.
More details about the new course will be available soon. Read about the 2025 course pause on our website.
Join Us in Stillness This Lent With Our Virtual Sit Meditations
You cannot know God solely with your mind. You need full access knowing, which many call the contemplative mind. —Richard Rohr
Clear away the old to make room for new growth. This Lent, join us every Sunday morning for our FREE Lent Virtual Sit Meditations, led by CAC faculty and staff.
Experience contemplative practices grounded in the themes of Richard Rohr’s new book “The Tears of Things.” Dialogue with other seekers in the live chat and enter contemplative stillness in a shared online space. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive a reminder for each virtual sit meditation.
Lent Virtual Sit Meditations
Sundays, March 9 – April 20, 2025 at 8:30 am PT
Featuring CAC Faculty and Staff
Presented by the Center for Action and Contemplation
CAC Community Favorites
Explore what’s going on at CAC through our community recommendations! Take a moment to experience what others have found to be helpful in growing consciousness, deepening practice, and strengthening compassion.
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we choose the yearly theme
- CAC Podcast Network: Entering the World of the Other on “Everything Belongs” with Omid Safi
- We Conspire Series: Monkeys in the Banana Tree with Wendy VanderWal of the Henri Nouwen Society
- From the Archives: Richard Rohr teaches at the Conspire 2017 conference
- Social Media: Follow us on LinkedIn
- Bookstore: Get ready for Lent with Richard Rohr’s “Wondrous Encounters”
About the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)
Our founder Fr. Richard Rohr’s vision has always been about providing spiritual grounding for a movement of contemplative activists, prophetic leaders, and spiritual seekers. CAC is an educational nonprofit that introduces seekers to the contemplative Christian path of transformation. Our mission is to introduce contemplative wisdom and practices that support transformation and inspire loving action. Learn more about who we are and what we do.