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This month, learn more about these opportunities to further your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation.
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Online Event — What Makes Contemplative Christianity Different?
What makes contemplative Christianity different? Join us on September 14 to walk a more spacious path in our final 90-minute online gathering of 2025.
Contemplative Christianity is rooted in inner and outer transformation, radical compassion, and the lived experience of God’s presence in all things. CAC core faculty leads “What Makes Contemplative Christianity Different?” to explore the unique pillars of a more dynamic and compassionate way of life.
Sunday, September 14 at 4:00-5:30pm PT
Featuring: Brian McLaren, James Finley, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, and The Very Rev. Michael Battle, Ph.D.
Cost: $95, $30, $10, or $5
Carmen Acevedo Butcher Joins CAC Core Faculty!
We’re excited to announce our newest member of CAC’s core faculty — Carmen Acevedo Butcher!
Carmen is an award-winning translator, author, educator, and poet who teaches in the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley. Her translations of Christian mystical classics, such as “The Cloud of Unknowing” and “Practice of the Presence,” have been praised for their accessibility and depth.
Explore Carmen’s inspiring teaching style in this playlist featuring her recent teachings.
Join Us Online — ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity?
We still have tickets available for our October conference online, ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity?
Reimagine a Christianity that empowers us to meet this moment in history with clarity, courage, and compassion. Walk through the Christian tradition as a living path with CAC faculty, guests, and fellow seekers.
Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
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
Live Online
Cost: $250, $175, or $99
Have You Read “The Tears of Things” by Richard Rohr?
In Richard Rohr’s latest book, readers discover prophetic wisdom for an age of outrage.
“The Tears of Things” — which spent four weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list — offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for the world today, grounded in the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets.
Download your free Reader’s Guide when you order a copy of “The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.”
Updated Online Course — Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey
Embark on a spiritual journey for the second half of life in Falling Upward: Life as a Spiritual Journey — based on Richard Rohr’s book of the same name.
Falling Upward is a self-guided online course on transformation, myth, and contemplative practice. We hope you’ll join us for this transformative opportunity to discover the beautiful necessity of falling!
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: Pope Francis on Welcoming the Stranger — A Biblical Command
- CAC Podcast Network: Love Period — Love Liberates
- Bookstore: Richard Rohr’s revised book “Falling Upward” features a new foreword by Brené Brown!
- We Conspire Series: How is nonviolence a contemplative path for peacemaking? — Peacemaking from the Inside Out
- From the Vault: The Scapegoat Mechanism — Richard Rohr writes on the dangers of projecting onto others.
- Social Media: Stay up to date with Richard Rohr by following him on X (formerly Twitter).
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.