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Explore October’s Featured Experiences
This month, learn more about these opportunities to further your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation.
- ReVision 2025: The Webcast — Last Day to Register!
- Order or download ONEING: A Living Tradition
- Watch Christine Valters Paintner discuss the power of a “word”
- Turn to Brother Lawrence on the Turning to the Mystics podcast
- New video — Hear from Carlos Rodríguez on nourishing our communities
- Revamped! Register for the Mystical Sobriety online course featuring James Finley
- We’re hiring! Explore current openings
Step deeper into our Center for Action and Contemplation community! Our monthly newsletter, News from New Mexico, shares new videos, podcast episodes, and online education opportunities — helping you engage more compassionately in the world.
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ReVision 2025: The Webcast — Last Day to Register!
Register by today, October 20, to secure your spot!
Online registrants to ReVision: The Webcast can access live chat rooms to connect with other attendees during the event and access video replays after the conference! Tune in for mainstage presentations and panel discussions, while learning alongside other spiritual seekers through our online platform. You can learn more about ReVision’s chat rooms and drop-in discussions here.
You’ll be able to watch the event playback for 30 days — revisiting all your favorite moments! Reimagine a Christianity that empowers us to meet this moment in history with clarity, courage, and compassion.
Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26
Featuring: Fr. Richard Rohr, Brian McLaren, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, James Finley, Diana Butler Bass, Fr. Greg Boyle, Lerita Coleman Brown, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Carlos Rodríguez, Mirabai Starr, and Randy Woodley
Live online with after-event replay
Cost: $250, $175, or $99
Order or Download ONEING: A Living Tradition
We’ve just released our most recent publication, ONEING: A Living Tradition. In times of uncertainty, contemplative traditions invite us deeper into Christian spirituality.
Explore the living path through essays and poetry. Contributors — such as Fr. Richard Rohr, Mirabai Starr, Adam Bucko, and more — draw from the wisdom of the desert tradition and monastic renewal.
Established in 2013, ONEING is the annual journal of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Renowned for its diverse and deep exploration of mysticism and culture, ONEING is grounded in Fr. Richard Rohr’s teachings and wisdom lineage. Each issue features a themed collection of thoughtfully curated essays and critical perspectives from spiritual teachers, activists, modern mystics, and prophets of all religions.
Watch Christine Valters Paintner Discuss the Power of a “Word”
Author Christine Valters Paintner recently sat down with the CAC team to discuss themes from her new book Give Me a Word.
How can we receive a “word?” Christine discusses practical tactics like contemplative listening, dreamwork, and embodiment. She also invites you to embrace nature and sacred thresholds to tune into the voice of God. Watch to discover more on this unique contemplative practice and learn more about our 2025 Daily Meditations theme of Being Salt and Light.
Turn to Brother Lawrence on the Turning to the Mystics Podcast
James Finley’s podcast Turning to the Mystics is back — in this 12th Season, we turn to Brother Lawrence. Check out the first episode!
On each weekly episode, we’ll discover how Brother Lawrence’s wisdom can be integrated into our rhythms of prayer, work, and stillness. We’ll explore his book Practice of the Presence, which was translated by CAC Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher.
New Video — Carlos Rodríguez on Nourishing Our Communities
Discover practical ways to embody our Daily Meditations theme of Being Salt and Light with this video, featuring Carlos Rodríguez.
In this video, Carlos shares how his nonprofit The Happy Givers invests in nurturing vulnerable communities across Puerto Rico — including bringing meals to the elderly. Carlos explains that “there’s nothing like just being present with the ones who need presence.” We hope you’ll be moved by this powerful story about an elderly man named Don Hector, whom Carlos had the privilege of caring for in his most vulnerable final days.
Revamped! Mystical Sobriety Online Course Features James Finley
Mystical Sobriety has been updated and is now a self-paced online course. Move beyond old wounds and deepen your union with Divine Love. This online course integrates contemplative practice, psychological insight, and Twelve Step spirituality to foster inner healing.
Dr. James Finley — a clinical psychologist and former Trappist monk — serves as your guide through course modules and multiple optional live calls.
We’re Hiring! Explore Our Current Openings
Help us co-create a world where everything and everyone belongs.
We’re looking for a Faculty and Partnerships Coordinator, who will help advance our formation strategy. This person will ensure logistics and communications are handled with consistency.
We are also hiring a Development Coordinator. This coordinator will support fundraising activities, donor engagement initiatives, and ongoing development operations.
CAC Community Favorites
Eager to explore more from CAC? Here are more resources designed to help you grow in consciousness, deepen your practice, and strengthen your compassion.
- In the Media: Brian McLaren was recently interviewed on Rainn Wilson’s Soul Boom podcast. Check out the interview!
- CAC Podcast Network: Everything Belongs — The Alchemy of Tears with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: A Commitment to Nonviolence — Love as the Source of Nonviolence
- We Conspire Series: Explore the intersection of financial freedom and spirituality — The Grace of Enough
- Bookstore: Richard Rohr’s newest book, The Tears of Things, recently appeared again on The New York Times Bestseller List!
- From the Vault: Sacramental Vision — Read more from Christine Valters Paintner with this meditation from 2022.
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.