News from New Mexico | Connect LIVE with Beloved Teachers in the CAC Community
Our News from New Mexico newsletter provides you with opportunities to help you engage in the content and work of the Center for Action and Contemplation.
This summer, we invite you to discover practices that can support transformation and inspire loving action.
Explore June’s Featured Experiences
We invite you to explore this month’s featured experiences, including chances to connect live with beloved teachers in the CAC community.
Practice Learning to See Your Life Truthfully
When we live from a deeper awareness of God’s presence — especially through the healing of our wounds — we can reconnect with love and experience more sustained inner peace. This “returning to love” is what CAC faculty James Finley calls “mystical sobriety.”
Read What Do We Mean by Mystical Sobriety? to discover an integrated way of being. Explore wisdom and practices that can inspire your life and the world day after day, more healed and more whole.
How Can We Reclaim Jesus from Empire? — Join Us Live on July 10
Do you feel disillusioned by the Christianity that you inherited and long to explore a more grounded spirituality?
Imagine a Christian faith grounded not in empire, but in relationship with creation at How Can We Reclaim Jesus from Empire? — a 90-minute live online gathering for those seeking a restorative vision for Christian life. Explore how Western Christianity became aligned with systems of domination and how Indigenous wisdom offers alternative ways of living, based on Jesus’s values. Register by July 9 to get year-long access to the event replay.
Date & Time: Friday, July 10, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Featuring: Brian McLaren, Randy and Edith Woodley
Cost: $95, $30, $10, or $5
Register by July 9 for access to the live event and recorded replay.
Turn to Thérèse of Lisieux’s “Little Way” on Turning to the Mystics
In the thirteenth season of the Turning to the Mystics podcast, James Finley and Kirsten Oates turn to the work of the French Carmelite nun St. Thérèse of Lisieux. If a path that emphasizes humility, trust, and divine presence calls to you, then this season will nourish your journey.
New episodes are released on Mondays. Subscribe now to never miss a show!
Join Cynthia Bourgeault Live on June 10
Learn to engage more deeply with God and the world in The Divine Exchange: Living in the Sacred Rhythm, our newly updated online course featuring Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault.
Cynthia invites students to a live online session on June 10 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (PT). Enroll today to join us on June 10 and get access to the recording.
Featuring: Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault
Cost: $497, $374, or $249
Additional financial assistance is available.
Register in time to join Cynthia Bourgeault for the LIVE call on June 10.
Register for Illuman’s Men’s Retreat
Our friends at Illuman have their upcoming Awaken 2026 gathering on November 5–8 in the mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico!
Awaken is a three-day experience for male-identifying people. Attendees are invited into reflection, connection, and shared practice — exploring what it means to live from the sacred masculine.
CAC Community Favorites
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: James Finley and Mirabai Starr describe how the Song of Songs expresses the soul’s longing for God — Love Song of the Soul.
- We Conspire Series: Discover a mystical theology of creation — Hildegard’s Vision of Living Light.
- CAC Bookstore: Discover the work of Dr. Barbara Holmes.
- In the Media: Was Jesus really teaching nonduality? Cynthia Bourgeault explores that question on The Weekend University.
- CAC Podcast Network:Discover the Enneagram on Everything Belongs —Type 1: Architects of the Ideal with Tessa Bielecki.
- From the Vault: Michelle Scheidt shares how our sexuality can invite us to “fall upward” — Queer Paths in the Two Halves of Life
About the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)
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.