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We Conspire: Creating Communities Where Everything Belongs

From El Paso’s borderlands to our inner landscapes, three leaders show how the work of welcoming and letting go transforms both people and place.
November 21st, 2025
We Conspire: Creating Communities Where Everything Belongs

We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month.  

Letting Go for the Sake of Justice 
Learn how Brittany Koteles and Land Justice Futures accompany communities in transforming grief and decline into courage, community, and repair.  

In November’s We Conspire series, discover how Brittany Koteles of Land Justice Futures helps Catholic sisters transform endings into new beginnings by transitioning sacred places as an expression of healing and repair.  

Belonging at the Borderlands 
Meet Sami DiPasquale and Abara, who are turning a place of division into a sanctuary of healing and radical belonging. 

At Abara in El Paso, Texas, Sami DiPasquale and his community are creating spaces where the land’s layered stories — colonization, resistance, migration, and hope — can be heard and healed. 

Radical Belonging  
Christine Valters Paintner shares the spiritual practice of inner and outer hospitality. 

Online abbess of the “Abbey of the Arts” Christine Valters Paintner invites us to rediscover hospitality as a radical act of belonging that begins within. 


We Conspire is a series from the Center for Action and Contemplation featuring wisdom and stories from the growing Christian contemplative movement. Sign up for the monthly email series and receive a free invitation to practice each month.  

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