Live Yourself into a New Way of Thinking: Richard Rohr

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Father Richard Rohr is one of our best teachers, hands down. Whether it’s through his work at the Center for Action and Contemplation (which he founded) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or the many enlightening books he’s written, Fr. Richard is dedicated to helping people realize their best selves, both inwardly and outwardly. A champion for social justice who’s spent decades fighting for equality, he shows us the way to radical compassion by gently leading us to see the world with new eyes through the concept of “voluntary displacement,” i.e. when we willfully move out of our comfort zones and “live” ourselves into new ways of thinking. For such a wise and contemplative guy, his cool factor is off the charts. He calls Bono a good friend, and he was considered the foremost expert on the Enneagram WAY before it was the hot topic of the day. Jen and Fr. Richard discuss the dangers of “individualistic Christianity,” in the context of his new book “The Universal Christ,” and how so many of us have a stingy view of God who doles out His love out to just a certain few. He sums up our spiritual challenges in one masterful concept that, if we truly embraced, it would change the direction of our lives: “nothing can separate us from God, except the thought that we’re separate from God.”

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.1	Hey everybody, Jen Hatmaker here, your host of the For the Love Podcast.
0:26.3	Welcome to the show.
0:29.5	You are going to be so glad you pressed download today.
0:35.0	We are in a series called For the Love of Faith Groundbreakers and we are just talking to
0:41.0	some of the most interesting and curious and courageous thought leaders in faith that are
0:50.4	out there right now and they are leading us well and stretching us and pushing on
0:59.1	church and the status quo and they are heroes and speaking of heroes, if you know my
1:11.8	guest today, you are probably freaking out because I am too.
1:16.2	He is, when I say he's one of the greats, I mean that in this most sincere, possible
1:21.7	way.
1:24.1	If I sound a little for clumped right now, it's because I just finished the interview.
1:28.1	I am now recording the intro and I finished this interview by crying my eyes out, trying
1:35.0	to tell him how special and important he is to all of us.
1:39.3	I'm not over it yet.
1:42.1	Because today we have on Father Richard Roar.
1:47.5	He is a Franciscan priest.
1:50.8	He's a founder, the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation and Albuquerque.
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