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What contemplative practices do you reach for during difficult transitions? In this month’s We Conspire series, discover diverse practices to help us stay hopeful and grounded. From the benefits of meditating in nature to practicing crisis contemplation with your community, May’s articles invite us to mine the

Last year, Father Richard Rohr officially stepped back from active duties at the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC), retiring as both Dean of our Core Faculty and as a voting member of the CAC’s Board of Directors. While preparing for Fr. Richard’s transition, part of what we recognized is that no

To celebrate the Center for Action and Contemplation’s (CAC) 35th Anniversary year, we will be releasing a series of archival recordings of Richard Rohr from the early days of our founding. This recording is a talk given by Richard in 1987. In this talk Fr. Richard discusses religion as an idol, confusing the

Finding our way along the healing path does not consist of striving for some far-off goal that we may or may not attain but is rather a way of a discovering a secret hidden deep within our hearts. James Finley, Ph.D. What life experiences have drawn you to the healing path?   In The Healing Path: A Memoir and

Father Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in October of 1987. Envisioning a “school for prophets” at the intersection of praxis and prayer, he created the CAC to be an educational nonprofit that introduces spiritual seekers to the Christian contemplative path of transformation.

Season 4 of Learning How to See explores ways for us to reframe our Christian identity to better reflect our lived reality. In a series of stimulating conversations, Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Barbara Brown Taylor, and others join host Brian McLaren to explore how to practice a new kind of faith that doesn’t ask us to

To celebrate the Center for Action and Contemplation’s (CAC) 35th Anniversary year, we will be releasing a series of archival recordings of Richard Rohr from the early years of our founding. This first recording is from a series of foundational teachings on “Action and Contemplation” given by Richard in 1987 —

Contemplative wisdom invites us to embrace the silence and sparsity of Lent as an opportunity to reveal the hidden truths of our lives. In that spirit, the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) invites you to join us in a series of free Virtual Sit Meditations broadcast on YouTube each Friday in Lent, from

Have you ever wanted to see behind the scenes at the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC)? Who are the people that move the mission forward? What is their day-to-day like? How do they embody the wisdom they share with the world? Susan Hines-Brigger, Executive Editor of St. Anthony’s Messenger, published by

The Digital Product Team at the CAC operates from a deep sense of curiosity. We sit with questions each day on the best solutions to technology problems. How can we make this easier for our end users? How can we create ease for those interacting with our digital platform?  This means that often we don’t have the