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Explore May's Featured Experiences October Conference — ReVision: What Do We Do With Christianity? Make Space for Deeper Questions on “Turning to the Mystics” Podcast New Video! Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Being Salt and Light New Season of "Learning How to See" Features Thought-Provoking

The Living School—Reimagined. Coursework starts in September!

Introducing the Essentials of Engaged Contemplation—a reimagined 12-month course grounded in the foundations of the Living School from the Center for Action and Contemplation. If you’ve stepped away from religion but still long for spiritual depth, Essentials of Engaged Contemplation offers a grounded path

What is a Learning Community? 

CAC's online education programming is expanding and growing! Whether you have taken a CAC course in the past or are thinking about enrolling—let’s explore a little more about the nature and benefits behind CAC’s Learning Communities, a foundational part of our online education. At the heart of many of our

Carmen Acevedo Butcher on Being Salt and Light

April 23rd, 2025
As we continue connecting with our 2025 Daily Meditations theme Being Salt and Light, we invite you to reflect more deeply with CAC Affiliate Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher. Carmen explores new perspectives from this classic teaching from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. What would it mean to you to

Discover Contemplation with New Eyes | News from New Mexico

Discover what’s ahead for the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)! In this month’s installment of our monthly newsletter, the News from New Mexico, we invite you to explore offerings to support your spiritual growth and inspire your journey. Whether it’s reading the Daily Meditations, listening to a

Spring 2025 Mendicant Introduction

April 1st, 2025
Since Fr. Richard published The Universal Christ in 2019, many of us on the CAC team heard him say, “If I ever wrote another book, which I assuredly don’t have the energy to do, it would be on the way of the prophet, and what the prophetic lineage has to teach us.” I must have heard Richard say that a dozen

“The Tears of Things”

April 1st, 2025
In the first book of Virgil’s Aeneid (line 462), the hero Aeneas gazes at a mural that depicts a battle of the Trojan War and the deaths of his friends and countrymen. He is so moved with sorrow at the tragedy of it all that he speaks of “the tears of things” (lacrimae rerum). As Seamus Heaney translates it

Dancing with the Divine Fire

April 1st, 2025
Beloved CAC faculty member Dr. Barbara Holmes, known to her students affectionately as “Dr. B.,” passed away in late 2024. A giant in our contemplative community, she embodied a rare wisdom and impacted countless people. In a video recorded for Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations shortly before her death, Dr. B.

Inconsolable: The Path of the Prophet-Mystic

April 1st, 2025
Our religious conditioning has carved a gulf between the prophet and the mystic, just as we have between action and contemplation and between transcendence and immanence. It’s easy to buy into the illusion that these two spiritual orientations are fundamentally and mutually exclusive. But you can, of course, be both

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III on Thriving in Turbulent Times

March 28th, 2025
We love the opportunity to sit down and go deeper with authors featured in our Daily Meditations. Today, we invite you into this conversation with activist Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III — perhaps you will even discover a new perspective on our 2025 Daily Meditation theme Being Salt and Light.  In this video

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