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A New Issue of Oneing Is Here!
There is much about which to be angry these days. How do we hold the tension of anger so that it can do its important work in us and the world?
This issue of CAC’s journal, Oneing, features articles by Richard Rohr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Walter Brueggemann, Joan Halifax, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, Mirabai Starr, and others.
Purchase a limited-edition copy at store.cac.org.
Anger is good and very necessary to protect the appropriate boundaries of self and others. . . . I would much sooner live with a person who is free to get fully angry, and also free to move beyond that same anger, than with a negative person who is hard-wired with resentments and preexisting judgements. Their anger is so well hidden and denied—even from themselves—that it never comes up for the fresh air of love, conversation, and needed forgiveness.
—Richard Rohr
Orbis Books Features Richard Rohr in their Modern Spiritual Masters Series
This book is a wonderful testimony to the life and teachings of Richard Rohr, prophet, teacher, and mystic. By distilling the Gospel into the law of love, Richard has provided a healing balm for a wounded church, for those who have felt left out or shut out, or simply for those who are seeking a depth of spiritual meaning. Time and again his message is summed up in the simple truth: God is unconditional love.
—Ilia Delio
Why have we made things so complicated? Father Richard tries to remove the barriers—created by immature religion, bad teaching, culture, ego, and our own woundedness—that keep us from intimacy with each other and God. Essential Teachings on Love weave Richard’s own experiences of growing in love with some of his most profound messages on this theme.
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A Gift for You to Share
Do you know someone you’d like to introduce to Richard Rohr or who is seeking freedom from negative thoughts and unhealthy attachments? Invite a friend to listen to one of Fr. Richard’s classic, introductory talks, “Emotional Sobriety,” by sharing this link: cac.org/free-emotional-sobriety-gift. If you haven’t heard this teaching yet, you can enjoy it, too—our gift to you!
Contemplation IN Action
The spring issue of CAC’s free donor newsletter, the Mendicant, explores the intersection of action and contemplation. Richard Rohr writes, “Rightly sought, contemplation and action will always regulate, balance, and convert. . . . It is an endless, rhythmic dance.”
Guest writers reflect on the new Poor People’s Campaign—continuing the work of Martin Luther King, Jr.—as an example of contemplation in action. The campaign challenges the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation. Beginning May 13, people across the country are participating in nonviolent, direct action, culminating on June 23 with a mass rally in Washington, DC. Learn about the movement in the Mendicant online and visit poorpeoplescampaign.org or find them on Facebook.
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Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations
- Feminine and Masculine Principles: It is important that all people are able to recognize themselves in the picture we paint of God.
- Black Bodies: If we are all made in God’s image, if we are all the Body of Christ, then treating black and brown bodies with love and respect is the only way for our country, our communities, and our Christianity to be whole.
- Growing into Our Incarnation: God seems to desire a perfect but free unification between body and soul and is willing to wait for us to choose this unity.
Find additional meditations by Father Richard in the online archive.
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