News From New Mexico
The Path to Inner Peace
May 25th, 2022
How do we find motivation when our spiritual journey feels stagnant or unfulfilling? Where do we go for inner sustenance when facing seemingly insurmountable odds — like the grief of losing a child or bearing the weight of oppression?
In the Christian contemplative tradition, many teachers, such as Thomas Merton
Love is Our Origin & Our Destiny
May 25th, 2022
A loving image of God empowers us to continue the spiritual journey. As modern mystic Fr. Richard Rohr teaches from the alternative orthodoxy, It’s a good and safe universe, and it’s going to be okay.
This might be hard to accept sometimes, especially when the world feels fraught with oppression and suffering.
Begin with Yes
May 25th, 2022
Whatever word you use to describe your higher power — God, Goddess, Universe, Yahweh, Love, the Way — is inevitably interwoven with threads of mystery. When we put our energy toward trying to explain God, we have less energy to be present with God — and each other.
I spend much time in contemplation
We Are More Together Than We Realize
May 24th, 2022
Over two years ago, our Visitor Center here at the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, NM, closed its doors. At the time, we hoped it was just for the week, which turned into a month, then a summer, and so on. Everyone has their own version of this same story. The movement from togetherness to
The Evolution of the CAC Podcast Network
May 23rd, 2022
How do you explain the Christ to a child?” This was the very first question we asked Richard Rohr on the first season of our flagship podcast, Another Name for Every Thing. Packed into that question were hours of reading, pondering, and Paul playing with his kids. This personally intense question was asked in such a
Introduction by Father Richard Rohr, ONEING: Unveiled
May 21st, 2022
Both the limited-print edition of ONEING: Unveiled and the downloadable PDF version are available now in our online bookstore.
Αποκάλυψη (Apocalypsis)
This past year or so has been an apocalyptic time for our planet—and for all of us humans at the same time!
Today, the word
This Unveiling by Drew Jackson
May 20th, 2022
Both the limited-print edition of ONEING: Unveiled and the downloadable PDF version are available now in our online bookstore.
This is the pressing question of every age:
What is it that we cannot see?
For life is hiddenness, as is God, and we have been given the
Now Available: ONEING: Unveiled
May 20th, 2022
CAC Publishing is excited to announce that the Spring 2022 issue of ONEING is now available! ONEING: Unveiled explores how the contemplative mind invites us to experience God in the world, from everyday mystical moments to the apocalyptic revealing of half-hidden truths.
The small human ego appears to control
Wasting Time Conscientiously By Douglas E. Christie, ONEING: Unveiled
May 20th, 2022
Both the limited-print edition of ONEING: Unveiled and the downloadable PDF version are available now in our online bookstore.
Somewhere nearby, we think, it is hiding — or not hiding, perhaps, but hidden from us. We are deep in the mountains of Baja, Mexico, looking for the elusive Green-Tailed Towhee. It
A Brief History and a Future Glimpse of ONEING
May 13th, 2022
A key publication of CAC Publishing is ONEING—CAC’s spiritual journal, which is read by CAC constituents in fifty-five countries. The journal includes numerous well-known authors and intentionally introduces new voices through its varied themes. While many contributors to the journal have historically been Fr.