From Prayer to Protest: Lessons in Socially Engaged Contemplation | CONSPIRE 2021 | Day One

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Given today’s crises the world over, we can no longer afford to hide all our contemplatives in monasteries. We need to reunite contemplation and action. We need spiritual activists and, indeed, spiritual warriors on the streets of our cities and in all our professions and institutions who can reinvent them with spiritual values and see every person in need, every structural imbalance, every cry, including the cry of the earth, as a call to be answered. Through personal stories and lessons on socially engaged contemplation, Adam will invite us to learn from experiences and people who taught him, be it homeless youth he mentored, courageous priests he met as a youth growing up in Poland, or spiritual elders who helped him to discover how to “practice contemplation on the streets”. Recommended Reading List: •Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox •The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living by Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee •The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige •Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare by James Cone •Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation by Cyprian Consiglio •We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption by Kaira Jewel Lingo This video series was a part of the CONSPIRE 2021, an interactive online event that featured conference presenters James Finley, Barbara Holmes, Jacqui Lewis, Brian McLaren, Richard Rohr, and Mirabai Starr from September 24-26, 2021. The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) is an educational nonprofit introducing seekers to the contemplative Christian path of transformation. Founded by Richard Rohr in 1987, our programs and resources are designed to help deepen prayer practice and strengthen compassionate engagement in the world. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/3QypRgu Learn more about Who We Are: https://bit.ly/3D8TtdU Learn more about What We Do: https://bit.ly/3qrYFGc Learn more about Richard Rohr: https://bit.ly/3ozYdmP Learn more about Contemplation: https://bit.ly/3wNojGF

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• Prayer