Content about New Mexico

September 9, 2010

Integrating a contemplative lifestyle and compassionate action.

The Center for Action and Contemplation, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 1987 by Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who saw the need for a training/formation center. It would serve as a place of discernment and growth for activists and those interested in social service ministries—a place to be still, and learn how to integrate a contemplative lifestyle with compassionate service. The Center’s purpose would be to serve not only as a forum for peaceful, non-violent social change but also as a radical voice for renewal and encouragement.

September 9, 2010

Mustard Seed

The Resource Center of the Center for Action and Contemplation

A lot of valuable resource material for men's work can be ordered directly from the Mustard Seed, the Resource Center for the Center of Action and Contemplation. The Center for Action and Contemplation is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is the home for Richard Rohr's community.

November 1, 2009

We Need to Take Better Care of Sister Earth

If the nations that built on the Judeo-Christian heritage do not soon see the work of earth care and climate change as a moral and spiritual imperative, one wonders how we will have any moral authority left?

As a priest of the Franciscan Order, the very first European "invaders" in the States of New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California. I think we have been around long enough to see both the good and the bad that we brought with us. We usually found it congenial to live among the Native peoples of the new world, because they already shared our vision of both a simple and a communal life. In fact, they often taught us how to live it!

October 1, 1990

Naming the Father Hunger

"All men know how to do is pass on roles, money and opinions, but not who they are," says Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M. The fundamental drive affecting male spirituality, he believes, is "father hunger."