News from New Mexico | Discover Indigenous Wisdom, Chanting, The Enneagram and More!
The Center for Action and Contemplation’s newsletter, News from New Mexico, provides you with opportunities to help you engage in our upcoming offerings. This summer, we invite you to discover practices that can support transformation, inspire loving action, and deepen your spiritual life!
Explore July’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.
Get Year-Long Access to How Can We Reclaim Jesus from Empire?
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 Thursday, 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
Discover Chanting as a Path to Embodiment with Cynthia Bourgeault
How would you feel if you could respond to the small frustrations of your day with more grace?
Embodiment practices help move us into the wisdom of the body. Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault teaches that “when we connect with the body… [we] reconnect with the wellsprings of faith.”
What is chanting? And, what makes it embodied? Explore these questions in this article:
Watch Kat Armas on Resisting Violence
In our new Daily Meditations author video, Cuban American writer, speaker, and theologian Kat Armas discusses her book Liturgies for Resisting Empire, exploring how liturgy, contemplation, and community can help people resist systems of violence.
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Explore Your Enneagram Gifts on Everything Belongs
On the “Healing Helpers” episode of the Everything Belongs podcast, Enneagram teacher Hunter Mobley says, “the gifts inside of each of our Enneagram types are the best revelation of a particular part of the image of God.”
Listeners of this new season describe gaining deeper insights not just about their numbers, but about how all the numbers show up on their journey. Explore Fr. Richard’s foundational teachings on the Enneagram with guests such as Russ Hudson, Tessa Bielecki, Josh Radnor, and more.
Listen to new episodes the first Friday of the month!
CAC Community Favorites
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: In Lift Your Voice to God, Carmen Acevedo Butcher shares how to accept “just this.”
- We Conspire Series: Learn about Óscar Romero’s struggle for justice in A Heart Converted by the Poor.
- CAC Bookstore: Fr. Richard Rohr’s book Eager to Love explores teachings from St. Francis and St. Bonaventure.
- In the Media: Discover nature anew — Brian McLaren was interviewed on A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk Into a Bar.
- CAC Podcast Network:Listen to a Turning to the Mystics bonus episode —Fr. Richard Rohr on Thérèse of Lisieux.
- From the Vault: This Daily Meditation quotes the disability rights activist Amy Kenny on the diversity of people’s abilities in Healing Beyond the Cure.
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.