Putting Action Before Contemplation (Richard Rohr)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode has been a very long time in the making: Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar, the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, and one of the most profound teachers. Today, we explore the prescient themes from his new book The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage. He helps us to make sense of disorder, evil, anger, and grief—and he helps us to find our fulcrum of growth. He makes the case that the impulse to deconstruct is ultimately less useful than the impulse to construct, or reform. He breaks down why we fall into scapegoating, and the reputation lie. And we talk about why he puts action before contemplation. For more on Richard Rohr and all the show notes, head over to my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. Today, I'm talking to a guest that I've been
0:06.2	talking to in my head for a long, long time. The Incredible Father Richard Roar.
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0:57.5	Hi, it's Elise Lunan host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why
1:03.2	we're here.
1:04.3	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness
1:09.9	so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
1:14.4	Here is today's guest, Father Richard Roar, on how we confuse construction with deconstruction.
1:22.3	And that's what the deconstructionist always wants to do. Thinks he or she is building something new, but the instinct
1:31.7	to tear down, to dismiss, to deny. Our earlier word for was nihilism. Neal in Latin
1:42.0	means nothing. Nothing means nothing. So there's a big part of me that still
1:48.4	can't believe I got the nod to go to Albuquerque to sit down with Father Richard Roar.
1:55.3	This was not only on the calendar for a year, but I've been trying for many more years to get time with him.
2:04.8	I'm not the only one.
2:05.9	I think he's probably one of the most revered faith leaders and thought leaders in this country.
2:13.6	And so I recognize that this was an honor.
2:17.4	Although, of course, he is so humble and was shocked that I'd ever heard of him.
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