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Jan 22, 2025 | 
sonderbooks.com | Richard Rohr
Everything BelongsThe Gift of Contemplative Prayer Review posted January 22, 2025. Crossroad, 2003. 186 pages. Review written January 8, 2025, from my own copy, purchased via amazon.com. Starred Review I always have trouble summing up Richard Rohr books. I've decided that's because they're written more for our heart than our head. Someone in my small group had suggested studying contemplative prayer with our next book.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Richard Rohr |Michael Sean Winters
Photos, clockwise from top center: Martin Sheen (CNS/Bob Roller); Bernard Lafayette (Wikimedia Commons); John Dear (Courtesy of John Dear); St. Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean (CNS/Paul Haring); Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr (CNS/Courtesy of Franciscan Media) The latest episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus" podcast features John Dear in conversation with civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette, a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. The podcast can be found here.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
cac.org | Richard Rohr
Jesus woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased and there was a dead calm. He said to the disciples, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” —Mark 4:39–40 Episcopal bishop Rev.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
cac.org | Richard Rohr
You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.… If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others?
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
franciscanmedia.org | Richard Rohr
One of the earliest accounts of Francis, the “Legend of Perugia,” quotes Francis as telling the first friars, “You only know as much as you do.” His emphasis on action, practice, and lifestyle was foundational and revolutionary for its time. For Francis and Clare, Jesus became someone to actually imitate and not just to worship.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
cac.org | Richard Rohr
When deciding how we want to act in the public sphere, Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson reminds Christians to begin with the personal experience of God’s overflowing love for the world: Our temptation is to begin with politics and then try to figure out how religion can fit in. We start with the accepted parameters of political debate and, whether we find ourselves on the left or the right, we use religion to justify and bolster our existing commitments….
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
cac.org | Richard Rohr
Earlier this week, we shared with the CAC community that our beloved teacher Dr. Barbara Holmes passed away. As CAC Executive Director Michael Poffenberger expressed with deep sadness, “we lost a giant in our community.” “Dr. B.,” as many referred to her, has now become a spiritual ancestor. In the video series Wisdom in Times of Crisis, Dr. B.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
franciscanmedia.org | Richard Rohr
When you agree to live simply, the ethics and economics of war reveal themselves in all their evil and stupidity. Some say security systems, weapons, and armies actually demand 80 percent of the world’s resources, and everything else is made to fall into place behind that. How could that possibly be the will of God? Wars are initiated by imperial thinking. Only people intent on their own protection and their own material advantage need wars and war economies.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
cac.org | Richard Rohr
Father Richard Rohr considers the many challenges we face when seeking to “hear” God’s voice: Humanity is in a time of great flux, of great cultural and spiritual change. The psyche doesn’t know what to do with so much information. For most of human history, knowledge was written down, gathered in libraries, and shared physically; now, we’re linked 24/7 to unlimited data via televisions, our phones, or computer screens. That may explain the confusion and anxiety that we’re dealing with today.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
sa.uca.org.au | Richard Rohr
By Richard RohrPosted in FaithForgiveness Is a Process
Womanist theologian Karen Baker-Fletcher describes forgiveness as a source of healing that can help break repetitive cycles of hatred and violence.
Forgiveness is grounded in love that demands justice. Forgiveness is a God-given grace that frees the sinned against to pray for the salvation of sinners to free the world from further hatred, violence, and desecration.
