News from New Mexico | Contemplative Resources for the Holiday Season
This December, the News from New Mexico highlights new opportunities to help you engage more compassionately in the world around us.
As we step into Advent, Christmas, and the New Year, we invite you to discover practices that support transformation and inspire loving action. Stay up to date by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
Explore December’s Featured Experiences
This month, we invite you to experience opportunities to deepen your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation:
- Announcing our 2026 Daily Meditations theme!
- Our free Advent Sit Meditations are back
- Welcoming Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher as CAC’s Next Dean of Faculty
- Brian McLaren video on Good News for a Fractured World
- Shop CAC’s last-minute Christmas gifts!
- Catch up on our new season of Learning How to See
- Order ONEING: A Living Tradition
- We’re hiring an IT Analyst!
Announcing Our 2026 Daily Meditations Theme!
As we approach the New Year, we’re thrilled to announce that our 2026 Daily Meditations theme is Good News for a Fractured World. In a world where we often face fear and injustice, what would it mean to participate in the world’s healing, rather than creating more division? We’ll explore nuanced perspectives that address that question all year long!
We invite you to get on the Daily Meditations list to discover more about the Bible, mystics, justice, healing, and wholeness.
Our Free Advent Sit Meditations Are Back!
The celebration of Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born! —Fr. Richard Rohr, Preparing for Christmas
Advent can be a sacred time, beckoning us to prepare for Christmas. That’s why we’re hosting a series of free Virtual Sit Meditations, each Sunday morning during Advent. These weekly virtual meditations offer our global CAC community a time of shared reflection, stillness, and insight.
Advent Sit Meditations
Upcoming Date: December 21
Time: 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Location: YouTube | CAC Channel
Featuring: CAC Faculty & Staff
Cost: Free!
Recorded Replay Available
Welcoming Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher as CAC’s Next Dean of Faculty
The Center for Action and Contemplation is honored to welcome Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher as our next Dean of Faculty, unanimously approved by our Board.
Carmen steps into a role previously held by Brian McLaren and by Fr. Richard before him — a lineage marked by humility, depth, and a love for making contemplative wisdom accessible in a world hungry for transformation. We are profoundly grateful to Brian for his service as Dean and for the gifts he will continue to offer as Core Faculty. And, we are equally grateful for Carmen’s courageous yes to this next chapter.
Brian McLaren Video on Good News for a Fractured World
In this new video, Brian McLaren sets the stage for our 2026 Daily Meditations theme — Good News for a Fractured World.
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In the New Year, we will rediscover the liberating message of Scripture that contributes to the world’s mending, rather than its breaking. Each week, we’ll explore what it would mean for us to turn to the Bible to inspire our contemplation and loving action — our inner and outer wholeness. Join us as we explore Good News for a Fractured World.
Shop CAC’s Last-Minute Christmas Gifts!
Are you stumped on what to get your loved one this holiday season? Give the gift of contemplative wisdom by shopping the CAC Bookstore. For last-minute presents, explore our digital gift cards or digital downloads!
Catch Up on Our New Season of Learning How to See
Our ninth season of Learning How to See is back! Check out the trailer for this new season here.
On this new season, Brian McLaren and guest co-host Carmen Acevedo Butcher continue to explore seeing through eyes of love. Through openhearted conversation, podcast guests will share experiences in which their lens of love became more finely tuned.
Order ONEING: A Living Tradition
In times of uncertainty, contemplative traditions invite us deeper into Christian spirituality — explore these traditions in ONEING: A Living Tradition.
Embrace the living path through essays and poetry. Contributors, such as Fr. Richard Rohr, Mirabai Starr, and Adam Bucko, draw on desert wisdom and monastic renewal.
Established in 2013, ONEING is a journal of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Renowned for its diverse and deep exploration of mysticism and culture, ONEING is grounded in 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.
We’re Hiring an IT Analyst!
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CAC Community Favorites
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: Learn more about Mary and the power of yes — Responding to God’s Yes
- In the Media: Fr. Richard Rohr was recently interviewed on the Jesus Calling podcast. Check out the interview!
- CAC Podcast Network: Everything Belongs —Ezekiel: Redemption and the Grace of God with Randy Woodley
- We Conspire Series: What if the border could teach us how to belong? — Belonging at the Borderlands
- Bookstore: Richard Rohr’s Advent devotional, Preparing for Christmas, offers a moment of tranquility during the busy holiday season.
- From the Vault: Discover a Christmas meditation inspired by theologian Howard Thurman —Two Christmas Gifts: Reconciliation and Grace
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.