Explore Our NEW Fall Contemplative Resources | The News from New Mexico
This month, learn more about these opportunities to further your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation.
Explore September’s Featured Experiences
Step deeper into our Center for Action and Contemplation community! Our monthly newsletter, the News from New Mexico, shares details about offerings designed to deepen prayer practice and strengthen compassionate engagement in the world.
Find wisdom and practices that support transformation and inspire loving action. Stay up to date by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
ReVision Features Live Recording of Everything Belongs Podcast
Don’t miss the first-ever live recording of a CAC podcast at ReVision!
Online and in-person participants joining us for ReVision: The Webcast will receive three days of eye-opening wisdom and practice, including when the Everything Belongs podcast team sits down with Fr. Richard Rohr to discuss the “missing chapter” of his book The Tears of Things.
Live Online with Replay
Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26
Featuring: Fr. Richard Rohr, Brian McLaren, James Finley, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Randy Woodley, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Fr. Greg Boyle, Diana Butler Bass, and Carlos Rodriguez
Cost: $250, $175, or $99
Listen to Richard Rohr on The Oprah Podcast
In this conversation with Oprah Winfrey, Richard shares revelations from his latest book, The Tears of Things.
Oprah and Richard discuss the transformative power of embracing our tears as a path to healing and societal change. They also chat with listeners from across the country who seek to apply prophetic wisdom in their own lives.

First Live Call for Mystical Sobriety on October 15 | Register on October 8
Use the spirituality of the twelve steps and the wisdom of the mystics to acknowledge wounds and let go of past pain. Explore this timeless wisdom in our new online learning community, CAC Connect, where you can enroll anytime and enjoy perpetual access to course content.
This online course, featuring James Finley, launches on October 8 and will include its first live call with James on October 15. Mark your calendars for October 8 so you can enroll in enough time to join the live call on October 15.

Turn to Brother Lawrence with James Finley on Turning to the Mystics
James Finley’s podcast Turning to the Mystics returned on September 8 for our 12th Season! This time, we turn to the wisdom of Brother Lawrence. Check out the trailer!
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 Carmen Acevedo Butcher.
Embark on a Journey of Self-Discovery
Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey — an online based on Richard Rohr’s book of the same name — explores the path of mature spirituality in a flexible online learning experience..
Discover the beautiful necessity of falling, while sustaining deeper awareness of your inner landscape. Enroll anytime and enjoy perpetual access to course materials and community through CAC Connect.
Featuring: The teachings of Fr. Richard Rohr
Cost: $497, $374, or $249
Experience a new self-paced format! Enroll anytime and explore the course as it works for you.

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.
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: Practicing the Presence — Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
- CAC Podcast Network: Everything Belongs — Unfinished Prophets: Elijah, Jonah, and John the Baptizer
- Bookstore: Richard Rohr’s The Tears of Things appeared again on The New York Times Bestseller List!
- We Conspire Series: How do we make peace with our shadow self? — Recovery for Life
- From the Vault: The Cosmos Reveal God’s Great Love — Read about Brian McLaren’s mystical experience under an autumn night sky.
- In the Media: Richard Rohr was recently interviewed on Pete Holmes’ podcast. Check out the interview!
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.