News from New Mexico | This Spring, Step Into Live Teachings from CAC!
This April, our News from New Mexico highlights opportunities to help you engage more compassionately in the world around us.
Read on to discover practices that support transformation and inspire loving action. You can stay up to date by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
Explore April’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 the newly updated online course, The Divine Exchange
- Unpack the Enneagram on the Everything Belongs podcast
- Join our May 3 live event — Have We Been Here Before? Ancient Wisdom for Days of Disruption
- Discover Thérèse of Lisieux in Season 13 of Turning to the Mystics
- Explore our 2026 Daily Meditations theme
- We’re hiring a Director of Development!
Enrollment Now Open for The Divine Exchange
The Divine Exchange: Living in Sacred Rhythm online course with Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault is back and is now in a new self-paced format!
This course explores the Christian Wisdom tradition. Learn how kenosis, or self-emptying, can lead to a participatory exchange between the finite and the infinite. We hope you’ll join us for this transformative opportunity.
Featuring: Cynthia Bourgeault
Cost: $497, $374, or $249
Experience a new self-paced format! Enroll anytime and explore the course as it works for you.
Unpack the Enneagram on the Everything Belongs Podcast
What if your Enneagram number isn’t simply a label, but a compassionate lens for understanding your work to do in the world?
In the new season of Everything Belongs, we go back to one of Fr. Richard’s foundational teachings — the Enneagram. Discover how the entire map (not just your number) can serve as a tool of self-discovery for healing, solidarity, and deeper connection.
May 3 Live Event — Have We Been Here Before? Ancient Wisdom for Days of Disruption
Explore how ancient spiritual teachings can offer us new ways of seeing, praying, and living at Have We Been Here Before? Ancient Wisdom for Days of Disruption — an online gathering for those seeking resilience in challenging times.
At this live 90-minute online gathering, CAC Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D., James Finley, Ph.D., Fr. Richard Rohr, and guest teacher Kaitlin Curtice,will show you how the deep well of Christian contemplative traditions can support us in times of social, political, and spiritual instability.
Date & Time: Sunday, May 3, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Featuring: Carmen Acevedo Butcher, James Finley, Fr. Richard Rohr, and Kaitlin Curtice
Cost: $95, $30, $10, or $5
Live Online with Recorded Replay Available
Discover Thérèse of Lisieux in Season 13 of Turning to the Mystics
In our new 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, for spiritual guidance.
Discover Thérèse’s “little way,” which emphasizes humility, trust, and the divine presence in our daily experiences. Explore her life, core teachings, and legacy. Subscribe now to never miss an episode!
Explore our 2026 Daily Meditations Theme
Have you explored our 2026 Daily Meditations theme, 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 create more division?
We invite you to get on the Daily Meditations list. Get free reflections in your inbox from bestselling authors and beloved spiritual teachers!
We’re Hiring a Director of Development
The Center for Action and Contemplation exists to awaken a more loving world through the teaching and practice of the Christian contemplative tradition.
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: Rachel Wheeler describes how the desert offers a sacred invitation to people of all faiths in Desert Magic.
- Bookstore: Explore the wide array of teachings from Cynthia Bourgeault, who is featured in our online course The Divine Exchange.
- We Conspire Series: Fr. Adam Bucko shares how tears open us up to deeper solidarity in Let Heartbreak Be Your Guide.
- In the Media: Fr. Richard Rohr was recently interviewed on the Spiritual Life Podcast with Fr. James Martin, S.J. Watch their conversation!
- CAC Collaborators: Fr. Richard Rohr recently met with CAC collaborator Homeboy Industries on The Homeboy Way Podcast. Learn more about Homeboy Industries and watch their conversation!
- CAC Podcast Network: Tune in to Everything Belongs —Introducing the Enneagram with Richard Rohr.
- From the Vault: Gary Paul Nabhan, a conservation biologist, writes on the first Earth Day celebration —Loving the Earth.
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.