News From New Mexico
Uncover Your God-Given Calling
August 25th, 2022
How do you know your purpose in the world? Have you always known? Or are you on a continuous path of discovery?
Trusting the mystery allows us to follow our God-given calling, even if we don’t fully see the path ahead. It is hard to trust the flow if we remain stuck in my story or our story, never expanding into
Your God-Given Identity is Love
If someone told you that holiness is actually your first nature, would you believe them? What would it take for you to accept that you are inherently holy and always loved?
On our podcast Love Period, Dr. Rev. Jacqui Lewis interviewed Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper, who reconnected with her God-given
What Does It Mean to Die Before We Die?
August 25th, 2022
What one thing has been the hardest for you to let go? Try not to answer right away but sit with the question in contemplative prayer. Let the question sink into you, resonating in your heart and your bones, going beyond the ego, and finding the answer in your True Self.
Contemplative practice can be five or
Living School Adaption in Pandemic Times
August 24th, 2022
On March 9, 2020, the Living School began an Intensive at a local retreat center. In the middle of the week, the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in New Mexico. On the last day of the Intensive, Fr. Richard taught students from his hermitage over Zoom. That very same day, CAC staff learned the CAC campus was closing
New We Conspire articles now available!
July 27th, 2022
This month, our We Conspire articles explore the impact of empire’s co-opting of Christianity through stories and wisdom from the Christian contemplative movement. The end of this email includes a specially curated practice that invites us to apply this knowledge to our daily lives.
The Roots of Christianity
Bringing Our Focus Back to Love
July 27th, 2022
How do we live the Gospel message in a world that often seems to not only accept, but even prefer violence, social injustice, poverty, and many other systems of oppression?
While mainstream Christianity often equates evil with individual “sins,” the Alternative Orthodoxy brings our focus back to evil’s
Walking Humbly with God for Justice
July 27th, 2022
How do you practice your faith? What are the actions that take you beyond belief and into being?
The Alternative Orthodoxy emphasizes orthopraxy over orthodoxy, teaching that love and action (right practice) are more important than speculative truth (right belief). In this article, Michele Dunne, executive director
The Roots of Christianity and Empire
July 27th, 2022
What happens to Christianity when it serves empire over God? What happens to Christians when we see both our religion and our politics as above criticism?
Living together inside God’s Great Story means honoring the universal dignity of every thing in creation. Yet, it becomes increasingly harder to be a loving
Statement from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM after meeting Pope Francis
July 1st, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, July 1, 2022: I am full of joy – ecstatic even – reflecting on my meeting with Pope Francis. Our conversation focused on how the rediscovery of the contemplative mind can serve the renewal of Christianity and healing of our world.
Sitting across from each other, I shared with him about what God has
Moving Forward Together
June 6th, 2022
Returning to the Center is a series of communal reflections on what we — the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) — are learning in our journey to renew our founding vision in a time of significant growth, change, and contemplative renewal.
In my first post in this series, I spoke of the great need for