News from New Mexico | Explore Offerings for a New Year
This January, News from New Mexico highlights opportunities to help you engage more compassionately in the world around us.
As we step into 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 January’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!
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 list for our Daily Meditations to discover more about the Bible, mystics, justice, healing, and wholeness.
Enrollment Open for The Tears of Things: Integrating the Prophetic Path
My hope is that we can recover the universal need for the prophet and prophetess, while also seeking to create and validate lovers and not just critics. —Fr. Richard Rohr
Transform your anger into compassion in this self-guided online course that explores the path of the prophet, based on Fr. Richard Rohr’s bestselling book, The Tears of Things. Experience our new self-paced format! Enroll anytime and explore the course as it works for you.
Featuring: Fr. Richard Rohr’s book The Tears of Things
Newly Revised On CAC Connect — 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 Fr. Richard Rohr’s beloved book by 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 healing necessity of falling
Featuring: 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.
Tune In to the Latest Episode of Learning How to See
Our ninth season of Learning How to See has proven to be incredibly powerful and thought-provoking!
This recent episode features an interview with Quaker elder Parker J. Palmer. Listen here.
In this new season, Brian McLaren and guest co-host Carmen Acevedo Butcher continue to explore seeing through the eyes of love. Through openhearted conversation, podcast guests will share experiences in which their lens of love became more finely tuned.
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CAC Community Favorites
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: In this video, Brian McLaren speaks about 2026 Daily Meditations theme — Good News for a Fractured World.
- In the Media: Fr. Richard Rohr was recently interviewed on The Oprah Podcast. Check out the interview!
- CAC Podcast Network: Everything Belongs —It All Comes Down to Love.
- We Conspire Series: Christine Valters Paintner shares the spiritual practice of inner and outer hospitality — Radical Belonging.
- Bookstore: Discover the work of our new Dean of Faculty, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D.
- From the Vault: In this homily, Fr. Richard explores Epiphany —The Star is a Universal, Nature-Based Symbol of Guidance.
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.