News from New Mexico | This Spring, Exciting Authors and Artists Offer Fresh Perspectives
This month, our newsletter, News from New Mexico, highlights opportunities to help you engage more compassionately in the world around us.
We invite you to discover practices that support transformation and inspire loving action. Stay up to date by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
Explore March’s Featured Experiences
Are you seeking resources to step into your spiritual growth and explore the contemplative path of transformation? We invite you to explore this month’s featured experiences!
Register for Our Upcoming Event With Cole Arthur Riley and Jon Batiste
There’s still time to sign up for our live online event How Do We Find Hope in Hard Times? on Friday, March 13. We’re thrilled to announce that the GRAMMY- and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and composer Jon Batiste will be featured at this online event!
CAC Dean of Core Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher and guest teacher Cole Arthur Riley will guide attendees through teachings, conversations, and practices designed to help us step deeper into joy. Discover how we can find hope during times of personal loss, social unrest, and collective uncertainty.
Date & Time: Friday, March 13, from 10:00-11:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Featuring: Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Cole Arthur Riley, and Jon Batiste
Cost: $95, $30, $10, or $5
Live Online with Recorded Replay Available
Livestream Our FREE Lent Sit Meditations
Our free Lent Sit Meditations have returned! Join us on YouTube to explore Fr. Richard Rohr’s devotional, Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent.
Each meditation — led by the CAC team — invites participants deeper into Divine love. Tune in on YouTube each Friday during Lent at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time or watch the video replay on your own schedule.
Go even deeper by getting your weekly free Lent Email Series, which features teachings that complement each week’s unique video meditation.
Explore What’s New on Everything Belongs
Have you listened to the Everything Belongs’ Season 3 finale yet? As we conclude this podcast season on Fr. Richard Rohr’s book The Tears of Things, this final episode includes a thoughtful question and response discussion from Fr. Richard.
Also, our new season of Everything Belongs releases March 6 — we will be exploring the Enneagram in-depth! Join Fr. Richard Rohr, CAC teachers, and guests on a journey through Fr. Richard’s foundational teachings on contemplative Christianity. Subscribe on your preferred listening platform today to never miss an episode.
Discover A Beautiful Year With Our New Daily Meditations Video
What surprising insights can the Christian liturgical calendar offer us?
In this new Daily Meditations video, we hear from author Diana Butler Bass, who shares themes from her new book A Beautiful Year. You’re invited to rediscover the liturgical calendar as an alternative spiritual rhythm shaped by Jewish, Roman, and ecological traditions. Reflect on this current season of Lent, which can be a season of realism, inward reflection, and moral reckoning.
Step deeper into our 2026 Daily Meditations theme of Good News for a Fractured World through this discussion on justice, abundance, and human oneness.
We’re Hiring a Director of Development
The CAC exists to awaken a more loving world through the teaching and practice of the Christian contemplative tradition. We are looking for mission-aligned staff with the professional skills and experience needed to scale our work and reach a larger audience.
We’re looking for a Director of Development who will oversee all fundraising strategy and execution across individual giving, major gifts, annual appeals, planned and legacy giving, institutional funding, and donor engagement.
CAC Community Favorites
- Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations: Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley shares a vision of communal peace and universal thriving in Communal Shalom.
- Bookstore: Explore the wide array of teachings from Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault, who is featured in our upcoming online course The Divine Exchange.
- We Conspire Series: Rose Feerick confronts economic inequality in Following the Spirit’s Flow of Generosity.
- In the Media: Fr. Richard Rohr was recently interviewed on the Spiritual Life Podcast with Fr. James Martin, S.J. Watch their conversation!
- CAC Podcast Network:Tune in toLearning How to See, When Loving Means Letting Go with Jen Hatmaker.
- From the Vault: In this homily, Fr. Richard reframes Lent —Fasting from Hatred and Anger.
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.