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An Online Gathering with Brian McLaren, James Finley, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, and Pico Iyer. Live May 18. Recorded Replay Available.

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Seeing the Humanity of Everyone (No Exceptions) with Fr. Rafael Garcia Seeing the Humanity of Everyone (No Exceptions) with Fr. Rafael Garcia

Seeing the Humanity of Everyone (No Exceptions) with Fr. Rafael Garcia

What happens to your own humanity when you choose to truly see the humanity in others? In this episode, Jesuit priest Father Rafael Garcia joins Brian McLaren and Carmen…

Daily Meditations

To Be a Woman Is More Than Enough To Be a Woman Is More Than Enough

To Be a Woman Is More Than Enough

It makes sense that because white men created so much of religion, the image of God was an old white man with grey hair. However, this image needs a makeover because he’s no…

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The Tears of Things Online Course 

Explore wisdom for an age of outrage in our new online course, The Tears of Things: Integrating the Prophetic Path, based on Richard Rohr’s bestselling new book.

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Enroll Now—Living School’s Essentials of Engaged Contemplation

Introducing the Essentials of Engaged Contemplation, a transformative one-year online program, immersing students in the essentials of contemplative Christianity and practice. 

“Contemplation embodies compassion. The more we are transformed in compassion, the more we act with compassion toward others.”

—JAMES FINLEY, CAC FACULTY

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New Release of ONEING

In “ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile” rediscover the God who exiles nothing, featuring Brian McLaren, Randy S. Woodley, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and more. 

“ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile”

“There is a deep relationship between the inner revolution of prayer and the transformation of social structures and social consciousness. Our hope lies in the fact that meditation is going to change the society that we live in, just as it has changed us.”

—RICHARD ROHR, CAC FOUNDER

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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

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