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Basking in the Tension
May 28th, 2026
When I lived in Venice, California from 2013–2018, I made a habit of getting outside for sunset. At the time, I lived near family, including two of my nephews. In autumn, I’d hustle home to Venice from Pasadena just so I could lay my eyes on the pinks and oranges hovering above the Pacific Ocean. I’d often
The Bible as Good News for a Fractured World
May 28th, 2026
Our world is deeply fractured. We see the symptoms all around us. We see it in politics. We see it in social media. We see it in our families and denominations. Those fractures couldn’t come at a worse time. We need to come together as never before to address our environmental and climate crises, to resist
The World Needs People Who Are Alive
May 28th, 2026
My son, Javi, is a high school senior and now applying for colleges. He is still in the early stages, dreaming and imagining himself on a career path on which he might earn a good living and contribute something meaningful to the world.
The other day, in a moment of excitement, he sent me a text message that
The Gift of the Moment
May 28th, 2026
Those seemingly ordinary moments of wonder in your life—when you are arrested by the sunset or swell of music or your child’s face, and the line between you and everything blurs—are not throw-away moments. They are actually portals into the sacred nature of things.—Valarie Kaur
My spirituality has always
Following the Sound of the Genuine
May 28th, 2026
Let me take you back to 2014, the year my journey with CAC began. I was the 32-year-old CEO of Invisible Children, an international nonprofit working to prevent violence in communities across East and Central Africa threatened by the Lord’s Resistance Army. We supported local interventions to protect civilians and
Singing and Sharing in South Los Angeles
February 13th, 2026
South Los Angeles has been my home for twenty-one years. Like many predominantly black and brown neighborhoods, it is a place where underinvestment and injustice cause harm. It is also a vibrant and resilient community where my wife and I have the privilege of raising our twelve- and nine-year-old daughters. Miss
Widening Circles
February 13th, 2026
The shape of ReVision was a circle. Our faculty taught in the round from a circular stage. All participants gathered at round tables to learn from each other’s stories. Like ecclesial councils of ages past, we gathered to address the pressing questions of our times. Rather than arriving at a single answer, we came
What Do We Do with Christianity?
February 13th, 2026
I arrived at the CAC’s ReVision conference hoping for answers. I was troubled by the disordered state of Christianity in our culture. I had personal questions, too. I had been struggling to discern next steps on my spiritual path. I had been wrestling with how to worship, because I no longer had a church home. From
My Beloved and Bewildering Jesus
February 13th, 2026
During the ReVision conference’s main-stage session on recentering Jesus as prophet, Fr. Richard was asked why the first of the CAC’s principles is “the teaching of Jesus is our central reference point.” He explained that the reference point has to be personal, not abstract, because we are drawn to people.
ReVisioning Together: Compassion in Action
February 13th, 2026
When my wife told me that her birthday wish was to attend the CAC’s ReVision: What Do We Do with Christianity? conference in Albuquerque, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had never been to such a gathering before, but of course I would never say no to her birthday wish. I didn’t realize how deeply the weekend