Center for Action and Contemplation
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We are a nonprofit organization that nurtures compassionate action through contemplative practice and teaching. Founded by @RichardRohrOFM in 1987.
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The poor man has as much Divine dignity as the rich man. There’s no theological basis for looking down on anyone
@RichardRohrOFM
#CONSPIRE17
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If you’re looking for ways to refresh your daily
#meditation
practice, we invite you to explore
#ASpringWithinUs
, a refreshed edition of a collection of
@RichardRohrOFM
’s
#DailyMeditations
, now available at
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Black Lives Matter.
A statement from our Executive Director at the Center for Action and Contemplation:
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“Christianity has become obsessed with what Christians believe rather than how Christians live. We can end up with a church full of believers, but followers of Jesus can be hard to come by."
@ShaneClaiborne
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Please join us in offering warm wishes to Cynthia Bourgeault in honor of her retirement and transition to emeritus faculty in the Living School. We celebrate her contributions and are inspired by her decision to devote more time to writing and experimental teaching.
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We honor
@JamesMartinSJ
for living his authentic self in a loving & inclusive God. We’re grateful for his insight on
@RichardRohrOFM
’s meditations on gender and sexuality, and his continued work to make Christianity a place welcoming to
#AllGodsChildren
.
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"My hope for Christianity is that it becomes less 'churchy,' less patriarchal, and more concerned with getting the job of love done." Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#DailyMeditation
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The Resurrection journey is a map for the pattern of reality, but how do we use this map, instead of the egoic self, as our reference point? Listen to episode 10 of Another Name for Every Thing with
@RichardRohrOFM
on iTunes, Google Play, Radio Public & other platforms.
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"I think the crucified body of Christ is in cages at the border. I think the crucified body of Christ is crossing the border looking for help, for some water & somebody’s poured it out because they are too afraid of change to even be compassionate."
@RevJacquiLewis
#UC2019
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God doesn't love you b/c you're good; God loves you because God is good.
#GraceWins
#ReframeTheStory
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Our staff is often inspired by more than just Richard’s words and work—he's also a fashion trendsetter!
#MysticTwins
#TheyveGonePlaid
#PlaidPals
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To our friends celebrating
#Christmas
, we wish you a day filled with warmth and celebration. Today, we invite you to reflect with us on how joy is a
#sacred
human experience. What kind of joy are you being invited to experience today?
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#Christianity
has become so concerned with faith IN Jesus that we largely ignored the faith OF Jesus—his teachings on detachment, simplicity, nonviolence, & anxiety. Read more:
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Grace isn’t for sale. That's the symbolism of Jesus kicking over the tables in the temple. You can't buy God—not by worthiness, achievement or obeying commandments.
#RichardRohr
#BlessedAre
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“The
#HolySpirit
has been wind at my back for all these 75 years. I know you are part of this same windstorm, this same love.”
@RichardRohrOFM
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"The central concern of biblical justice was not 'getting what you deserve;' rather, it was making right what was done wrong, restoring what had been destroyed, healing the wounds of an offensive act." —
@ShaneClaiborne
#DailyMeditations
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"A human being is of infinite worth in the sight of God, whether they are a saint or a sinner. If that is true, then I am never relieved of my responsibility for trying to make contact with this worthy thing in them." —
#HowardThurman
#DailyMeditations
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What if we treated our spirituality like eyesight? Eventually your perscription needs updating—a new lens for seeing the world. The view of a male God, judgmentally observing us, is an outdated lens.
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Do you know where the term "scapegoat" came from? "God and religion have been used to justify most of our violence and to hide from the shadow parts of ourselves." Learn more about the scapegoat mechanism from
@RichardRohrOFM
:
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In 2008 CAC launched its Daily Meditations emails. Now over 270k get reflections from
@RichardRohrOFM
#AwakenLove
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We’re celebrating with
@RichardRohrOFM
on his 75th birthday! Thankful for his life, his witness & his stories shared here:
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Why do humans believe we are the only species God really cares about? With that kind of narcissism, creation is no longer naturally sacred. It allows us to torture animals and destroy ecosystems, denying them their inherent value.
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Institutions prefer loyalists to prophets. No one,not even
#Christianity
, wants people pointing out the shadow side.
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A statement on the recent allegations of abuse against Chris Heuertz:
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Jesus clearly says the
#KingdomofHeaven
is among us. It’s sad that many Christians made salvation into “an evacuation plan” into another world.
@RichardRohrOFM
on the
#RealmofGod
:
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Our hearts go out to our Muslim brothers and sisters as
#Ramadan
draws to an end. as-salaam 'alaykum
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If we don’t understand the need for healing now, then we don’t really understand salvation.
@RichardRohrOFM
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In Jesus’ day landlords possessed land through violence, oppression, & payment. Jesus turns that around & says it’s the gentle, the nonviolent & the meek who will finally possess the land.
#BlessedAre
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We bow in gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault on her retirement from the Living School and transition to emeritus faculty. “She will be sincerely missed by all of us, but her razor-sharp thought will remain as our foundation.” —
@RichardRohrOFM
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Find hope & healing for your justice work. Explore these free resources for spiritual support for preventing burnout and for those working on social, ecological, and spiritual justice issues.
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"God hasn't been talking to just
#Christians
.
#God
's been talking to all creation since the beginning of time."
@RichardRohrOFM
#CONSPIRE17
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Theism believes there is a God. Christianity believes that God and humanity truly coexist in the same body, in the same place! Read the full
#Meditation
on
#Incarnation
from
@RichardRohrOFM
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“Jesus talked more about how to live on earth now than about how to get to heaven later. But once Christianity became a morality contest, we lost the transformative power of the Gospel for individuals & society.”
@RichardRohrOFM
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Until you weep over your own fear & woundedness, you probably won’t advance beyond limits set up during the 1st half of life.
@RichardRohrOFM
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#StFrancis
followed Jesus more than worshipped Jesus. Do not just preach salvation, but be salvation.
#FranciscanWay
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Creation is always unfolding. Rejecting science reflects a very limited inner experience of God.
@RichardRohrOFM
:
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In the first episode of Enneagram Mapmakers,
@ChrisHeuertz
and
@RichardRohrOFM
discuss Richard's history with the Enneagram, why he stopped teaching it, and how the Enneagram has helped him move from inner critic to the compassionate observer.
I had a great time discussing the Enneagram with my good friend (and former student!)
@ChrisHeuertz
on the first episode of his new podcast, Enneagram Mapmakers
@CACRadicalGrace
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"There are times when you must take a stand that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but you must do it because it is right."
#MartinLutherKing
#MLK
#mlkday
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Obeying the right rules & believing the right doctrines is like telling God who God is allowed to love!
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Far too often, religions put entirely too much emphasis on creating "sacred" experiences — sacred places, sacred time, and sacred actions.
@RichardRohrOFM
reminds us that God meets us, simply wherever we are.
#DailyMeditations
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"You are a child of God, and always will be, even when you don’t believe it."
@RichardRohrOFM
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Patriarchal cultures lead to male imagery of God. But God is beyond gender.
@marcusjborg
@RichardRohrOFM
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Today we celebrate
#WinterSolstice
, the shortest day of the year. While being cloaked in night, this day invites us to explore our inner light. How do you maintain your inner fire when experiencing a long night?
#RichardRohr
#Illuminate
#Yule
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Murphy Davis writes, "Jesus taught the disciples that God is present among the poor and suffering: the sickest, hungriest, smelliest, most neglected, most condemned. How we treat them is a direct indication of our love of God."
#DailyMeditations
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“I believe the goal of adulthood and mature religion is to bring us beyond anger, alienation, and ignorance into deeper understanding and inclusivity.”
@RichardRohrOFM
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"We’ve made God in our own image—a projection of our fears & insecurities. Ironically, our image of God also creates us. As a result, Christianity can be oppressive, violent, & prejudiced against women, just like our image of God."
@RichardRohrOFM
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Today is St Mary Magdalene’s feast day. We honor her as a woman who did not turn away in the face of suffering and despite being misremembered, stand in her own truth and integrity.
#MaryMagdalene
#Witness
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Can you look for places inside you where your ability to be loved is blocked? How does contemplation help you dismantle those barriers? Read our meditation on searching for love:
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“There are experiences through which we must go, crying all the way, perhaps, if we are ever to go through them without crying.” —
#HowardThurman
Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#Meditation
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Our
#ego
tries to make God be who we want God to be. We want a God that confirms our biases and systems. Yet, as
#SaintAugustine
said, “If you comprehend it, it is not God.”
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"There’s an urgency to this moment. We must choose between a world of subjects and a world of objects. To acknowledge the divinity of another, we must first accept our own, which is not nearly as easy as it sounds."
@JoshRadnor
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.
@RichardRohrOFM
joins
@BreneBrown
for the first episode in a two-part conversation on the mysteries of faith, how to see God as a lover—not a dictator—and how we can be better equipped to grasp the nature of Divine Love. Out now!
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"The dark night is the healing process. Know that being seen—being brought out into the open—will not destroy you—it will liberate you."
#DarkNightJF
#JamesFinley
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"The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization, not performance. You cannot get there, you can only be there."
@RichardRohrOFM
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The price for real transformation is high. We have to change our loyalties from power & control to servanthood, surrender & simplicity. We can surrender to
#God
w/out losing ourselves. Read more:
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"'When my toes hit the floor in the morning, I’m on the lookout.' 'On the lookout for what?' I asked him. 'For God,' he said, 'God is always leaving me hints.'"
@FrGregBoyle
writes of God’s love, which is always trying to break through.
#DailyMeditations
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"Your life is not about you. You are about a larger thing called Life. You are not your own. You are an instance of a universal and eternal pattern. Life is living itself in you."
#RichardRohr
#DailyMeditation
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Jesus & Francis had a genius for not punishing the "negative" side of the world, but using it for growth.
#ThirdWay
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"Jesus did not come to create a spiritual elite or an exclusionary system. Love what God loves and how God loves."
@RichardRohrOFM
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Evil masquerading as "good" may be the scariest of all. After all, the Doctrine of Discovery emerged from Pope Alexander VI's papal bull and was used to justify the slave trade. We're called to confront evil camouflaged within our systems.
#DailyMediations
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"When we let go, the only constants are God’s love and God’s promise that we will never be left alone... Sometimes it takes a crisis to remind us that we are not in control." Read more in today's
#DailyMeditaitons
written by Rev. Dr.
#BarbaraHolmes
.
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“Contemplation” is a different form of consciousness, a different form of time.
@RichardRohrOFM
w/
@kristatippett
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"For Jesus, forgiveness, healing, and justice are the only real evidence of a new and shared life. If we do not see this happening in churches and spiritual communities, religion is largely an illusion."
@RichardRohrOFM
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Transformation sometimes forces the soul to go to a new place because the old place is not working anymore. But the ego—the false self—will do anything to keep the old thing from falling apart. Read more:
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God is beyond gender, of course. Yet both feminine and masculine images (both are biblical!) offer insights into the Divine.
@RichardRohrOFM
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The false self that you think you are is just an illusion. In contemplation you can recognize God’s self in you.
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"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners." –Hafiz
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Our deepest freedom is not freedom to do what we want, but freedom to become who
#God
wills us to be.
#Meditation
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Today, we're celebrating our 36th anniversary! Our hearts are guided by our mission: To introduce contemplative Christianity that supports transformation and inspires loving action. Thank you to everyone who is a part of our growing contemplative community!
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Today we reflect on the Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan priest and a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp. He chose to save the life of another inmate by offering his own. What stories of bravery have moved you?
#DailyMeditations
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"Some of our worst inhumanities as nations have been perpetrated on foreign soil and kept at a distance, as if to hide from our own soul the sacrilege of what we are doing."
@J_Philip_Newell
on hope and humility:
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“The beginning and end of everything is love. Only inside of this mystery of the exchange of love can we know God.” Read more on the Transforming Power of Love from
@RichardRohrOFM
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We came from God, will return to God, & everything in between is the
#divinedance
.
@RichardRohrOFM
#CACTrinity
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With steady practice contemplation will eventually give us the ability to stay present to what is, and meet it with wisdom, compassion, and courage. Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
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"Created by enslaved Africans in the US, spirituals express both suffering and dependence on faith. Like the Psalms of the ancient Hebrew community, the slaves took their emotions to God, putting them to music." —
@RevDrMonica
#DailyMeditations
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“The Gospel is not about being nice; it is about being honest and just, and the world doesn’t like those two things very much.” Read the full
#Meditation
on Peaceful Change from
@RichardRohrOFM
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Practice this “I love you” prayer in little passing moments as you go through your day, or even when you awaken in the middle of the night.
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#WhitePrivilege
means that since we didn't have to earn our belonging, we think that must be the norm.
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We invite you to set an intention for the week, or the entire period of
#Lent
, that will help you practice being fully known. What intention will allow you to be more fully known—by your loved ones, your community, and yourself?
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Nonduality can't be maintained all the time, but it can be touched on & applied for the rest of your life.
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Jesus often used the table—gathering together for meals—to rearrange the social order. Nowhere was that truer than with the meal—with whom, where, and what he ate. Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
:
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St. Francis looks to nature for guidance on how we are to model our relationships with God, one another, and with the natural world.” —Fr. Michael Perry Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#Meditation
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"Next time a resentment, negativity, or irritation comes into your mind, move that thought into your heart space. Dualism is in your head; in your heart, surround this negative thought with silence."
@RichardRohrOFM
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"Small souls are incapable of knowing a great God, and great souls are never satisfied with a small or stingy God."
@RichardRohrOFM
invites us into growth: "We must grow up to our full stature to find the full stature of God."
#DailyMeditations
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.
@RichardRohrOFM
writes, "Every time you and I hate, fear, compete, attack, judge, separate—we are resisting the full flow of Love, the energy which is driving the universe forward." How can we embody the Love of the
#UniversalChrist
?
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Franciscans have always believed that the
#Incarnation
was already the redemption, because in Jesus’ birth God was saying that it was good to be human. Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#Meditation
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"May all beings be seen, held kindly, and loved. May we all one day surrender to the weight of being healed.—
@LamaRod1
Read the full
#Meditation
on Wounded Healers from
@RichardRohrOFM
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"Being peace is an absolute prerequisite for making peace"—Richard Rohr.
#thoughtsandprayers
for
#LasVegas
& all impacted by the shooting.
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All four gospels insist that when all the other disciples are fleeing, Mary Magdalene stands firm. She does not run. —
@contemplativecb
Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#DailyMeditation
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Without contemplation, there is not much depth to Christianity. It is just beliefs and belonging systems. Reacting to unjust systems with dualistic thinking produces more of the same.
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#CynthiaBourgeault
, modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, and emeritus faculty member at the
#CAC
, writes about how Jesus modeled total surrender. The next time you feel the rush of “fight or flight,” ask: How can I freely release my grip?
#CACFeaturedFaculty
#ModernMystics
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What does it mean to “unlearn” the patterns of our ego? Join us for a two-part conversation between
#RichardRohr
and
@BreneBrown
recorded on
#CAC
grounds in
#NewMexico
in this special episode of the podcast
#UnlockingUs
. Listen here:
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Justice begins with seeing the divine in the other. If we really see someone in their fullness, we cannot help but treat them with kindness and compassion.
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"Humans often end up doing evil by thinking we can and must eliminate evil, instead of holding it, suffering it ourselves, and learning from it, as Jesus does on the cross." Discover solidarity with both sin and salvation in today's
#DailyMeditations
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"When
#Christians
accept that
#Jesus
was killed for the same reason that people have been killed in all of human history, we will have turned an important corner on our quest for the historical Jesus."
#RichardRohr
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“Authentic spirituality is always first about you—about allowing your own heart and mind to be changed.” —
#ThomasKeating
Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
#Meditation
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We need governments, organizations, and economies, but when we idolize them and refuse to hold them accountable, they usually become demonic in some form! Read more from
@RichardRohrOFM
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The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort & convenience but times of challenge & controversy.
#MLK
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