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We Conspire: When Change Breaks Us Open

How communities and leaders are discovering new life and purpose amid burnout, belonging, and the courage to be transformed.
December 26th, 2025
We Conspire: When Change Breaks Us Open

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.  

Seasons of Transformation
Discover how Ayni Institute reshapes leadership through depth, belonging, and a long view of change.

What if exhaustion is not failure, but an invitation to growth and a deeper perspective? Explore how community organizer Fhatima Paulino reimagines leadership through the Ayni Institute.

Where You Are is Where God is Working
How Tim Soerens and the Parish Collective are helping churches rediscover their purpose through embodied presence in the neighborhood.

What if the healing of the world begins right where we live? In December’s We Conspire series, learn how Tim Soerens and the Parish Collective are helping churches rediscover their deepest purpose.

Transforming Our Pain, Not Transmitting It
How Richard Rohr’s work reveals a path of transformation through great love, great suffering, and the humble acceptance of reality.

What if the suffering we most wish to avoid could become the doorway to our deepest transformation? Fr. Richard Rohr invites us into a spirituality grounded in both great love and great suffering — showing how the pain we do not transform, we will transmit.

CAC founder Fr. Richard Rohr with white hair, glasses, and a plaid shirt contributes to the fall ONEING: The Path of the Prophet

Reflect with Us 

These December stories reveal how change, burnout, and disruption can become invitations rather than dead ends. When we honor our seasons, commit to the places we live, and let suffering soften us instead of harden us, we begin to glimpse the new life hiding inside what feels like loss. Change may break us open, but it can also widen our capacity for love.

Where in your life is change asking not just for your endurance, but for your transformation? Share your reflection with us.


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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