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- October Conference — ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity?
- Make Space for Deeper Questions on “Turning to the Mystics” Podcast
- New Video! Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Being Salt and Light
- New Season of “Learning How to See” Features Thought-Provoking Interviews
- Now Enrolling! The Living School’s Essentials of Engaged Contemplation
- Out now! ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile
Our monthly newsletter, the News from New Mexico, shares details about offerings designed to deepen prayer practice and strengthen compassionate engagement in the world.
We hope you’ll explore your spiritual depths with these resources to help support transformation and inspire loving action. Stay up to date by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
October Conference — ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity?
What would it look like if we practiced Christianity as a living and transformative faith? Join us this fall for our conference, ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity?
Reimagine a Christianity that empowers us to meet this moment in history with clarity, courage, and compassion. Explore Christianity as a living path with CAC Faculty, guests, and fellow seekers.
Friday, October 24 – Sunday, October 26, 2025
Featuring CAC Faculty and guests
In-person in Albuquerque, New Mexico or Live online.
Cost: $250 – $695
Make Space for Deeper Questions on “Turning to the Mystics” Podcast
Are you yearning to ask big questions about conscious existence? In our newest season of “Turning to the Mystics,” James Finley introduces us to the work of the mystical French philosopher Gabriel Marcel.
Journey with us deep into the heart of mystery and metaphysics as we progress through the book “The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel” by Kenneth T. Gallagher. Pick up your copy to follow along with us this season!
New Video! Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Being Salt and Light
As we continue exploring our 2025 Daily Meditations theme of Being Salt and Light, we invite you to reflect more deeply on the role of compassion in our lives with CAC Affiliate Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher.
“We human beings are forgetful. We need reminders of important things — including the gospel that feeds the soul,” offers Carmen. Embrace this rich metaphor as a powerful tool connecting us to timeless and universal truths about God.
New Season of “Learning How to See” Features Thought-Provoking Interviews
Explore what it means to see through the eyes of love in Season 8 of the Learning How to See podcast, hosted by Brian McLaren and guest host Carmen Acevedo Butcher.
Broaden your view of the faces, voices, and experiences of love with thoughtful interviews with Nadia Bolz-Weber, Rev Dr. Otis Moss III, John Dear, and more.
Now Enrolling! The Living School’s Essentials of Engaged Contemplation
What if your life was the curriculum for your deepest spiritual study?
If you’ve stepped away from religion, but still long for spiritual depth, we invite you to join us in the Essentials of Engaged Contemplation — a reimagined 12-month learning experience grounded in the Christian contemplative traditions and the teachings of Richard Rohr.
Featuring: Brian McLaren, James Finley, Richard Rohr, Dr. Barbara Holmes, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Randy Woodley, and more.
September 22, 2025 – September 12, 2026
Cost: $2,100
Out Now! ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile
What does it mean to love — even in the face of crisis and oppression?
Explore the challenges and gifts of courageous love even in the most overwhelming circumstances. In “ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile,” rediscover a God who exiles nothing and in whom all reality belongs.
We’re Hiring! Help Us Co-Create a World Where Everything and Everyone Belongs
As an educational nonprofit that introduces seekers to the contemplative Christian path of transformation, CAC prioritizes a mission-driven team aligned through our values of solidarity, humility, truthfulness, and simplicity. We’re hiring several positions key to our mission of supporting transformation and inspiring loving action.
We currently have 3 open positions:
Interested in one of these positions or know someone who would be a good fit? Apply today or help us spread the word!
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: Nature Through New Eyes| Listening to Nature’s Sermons
- CAC Podcast Network: Everything Belongs — A Critical Mass: The Secret of the Remnant with Rev Jacqui Lewis
- We Conspire Series: Discover Hildegard of Bingen’s ecological spiritual vision
- From the Archives: We remember Pope Francis — Statement from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM after Meeting Pope Francis
- Social Media: We’re on Bluesky! Follow us there
- Bookstore: Get your FREE The Tears of Things Readers Guide
- We’re Hiring: Explore open positions
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.