Fruits of the Universal Christ

Another Name For Every Thing with Richard Rohr

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Richard Rohr, in conversation with Brie Stoner and Paul Swanson, look deeply into the ‘and’ between action and contemplation. This final discussion of Season 3 gathers and threads all of the themes of previous episodes together. This episode invites listeners to risk stepping more fully into conscious participation with the Universal Christ in both personal and collective approaches to action and contemplation. Visit cac.org/podcast to listen to season one of Another Name for Every Thing Visit universalchrist.org to learn more about the core themes of Richard’s book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you! -- Embark on a spiritual journey through St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle with Jim and Mirabai Starr in their online course starting September 9th. To learn more, visit cac.org/interior

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0:49.0	Brie, this was a really fun way to round out the end of the season by asking Richard about how do we live into that end
0:55.1	between action and contemplation from a place of values from universal Christ?
0:59.2	How did this episode strike you?
1:00.8	Yeah, it was a nice way to wrap up and recap a lot of the themes that have been running through this entire season from.
1:09.6	Holding things in tension, our experience, tradition, with scriptures,
1:14.8	holding the tension between deep time and urgency,
1:20.5	holding the tension between grace and works, action and contemplation.
1:25.2	And that seems to be so much the theme of what contemplation brings us to.
1:31.6	Is that meeting point, like that surface, that we're too non-surface?
1:36.5	It's that point where two surfaces meet in a way, or substances or energies meet.
1:41.8	And I really appreciate that Richard didn't try to shy away from that tension,
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