It All Comes Down To Love

Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr Forward

Center for Action and Contemplation

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Where does the prophetic journey through our anger and tears finally culminate? In this episode of Everything Belongs, we turn to Chapter 10 of Richard Rohr's The Tears of Things, called “It All Comes Down To Love.” Discover how the prophetic journey through order, disorder, and reorder ultimately leads us to Universal Love. At Richard's hermitage, our hosts discuss how great love is the only sane response to great suffering, and explore why loving one thing deeply can teach us to love everything. Afterwards all four of our hosts share the ways in which they've been impacted by our year long journey through The Tears of Things. Resources: Grab a copy of The Tears of Things ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Find a transcript for this episode here. To learn more about The Tears of Things and additional offerings, including the trailer, a FREE Reader’s Guide, and more, visit ⁠⁠⁠thetearsofthings.com.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.3	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.0	Friends, it's been such an incredible journey these past few months.
0:11.7	We've gotten to ask Richard so many amazing questions,
0:15.6	and we're pretty sure that as you've listened along,
0:18.5	you probably have some great questions as well.
0:21.8	So we'd like to hear what's on your mind, what questions are in your heart, and also a little bit more about your
0:26.6	experience taking this journey with us the last few months. Did you just listen along? Did you read
0:32.4	the book with us? Did you read the book with friends? What have you learned? We're going to be recording a listener questions episode and we would love to hear from you.
0:42.3	Please send your questions and any experiences that you'd like to share with us to
0:46.3	podcasts at cac.org.
0:48.3	That's podcasts at cac.org by December 31st.
0:53.3	Welcome back yet again, friends to the Everything Belongs podcast with the one and only Father
0:59.3	Richard Roar. Each season, we've explored one of Richard's books. Each episode, we travel over
1:05.5	to Richard's house to discuss a chapter with him, glean all the wisdom we can from him,
1:10.4	and then we're joined by a guest
1:12.1	who helps us live the teachings forward to think about Richard's teachings in new ways by asking
1:17.5	new questions that apply to a rapidly changing world. This season has been extra special because
1:23.7	we're exploring Richard's latest, and he says last, brand new book, The Tears of Things.
1:29.8	As a reminder, you don't have to read the book to follow along with us, but we hope you have.
1:34.1	We would love it if you do, and maybe this will inspire you to go ahead and pick the book up in the future.
1:38.9	This episode, we come to the last chapter, chapter 10.
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