Richard Rohr, OFM
Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director.
Richard was born in Kansas in 1943, and entered the Franciscans in 1961. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1970 and received his Master’s Degree in Theology from Dayton that same year. Richard lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque.
An internationally recognized speaker, Richard has travelled to Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand teaching on such themes as male spirituality, adult Christianity, politics and spirituality, and non-dual thinking. He has partnered with such esteemed teachers as Thomas Keating, Ron Rolheiser, Cynthia Bourgeault, Joan Chittister, Jim Wallis and James Finley, to name a few. In preparation for a more contemplative and centralized focus at the CAC, Fr. Richard will culminate his travels both domestically and internationally by March of 2013.
Richard is probably best known for his numerous recorded teachings, and through the Center’s quarterly publication, Radical Grace. He is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners, Tikkun, and The Huffington Post. His most recent recorded teachings include Creation as the Body of God; Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey; and God As Us! the Sacred Feminine and the Sacred Masculine.
Some of his best known books are Everything Belongs, Adam’s Return, Hope Against Darkness, From Wild Men to Wise Men: Reflections on Male Spirituality, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, The Naked Now: Learning to See As the Mystics See and Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps iSeptember 2011) is his most recent book.
Richard has been a featured essayist on NPR’s “This I Believe” and a guest of Dr. Mehmet Oz on the “Oprah and Friends” radio show. He appears in the 2006 documentary, ONE, featuring spiritual teachers from around the world.
For a comprehensive list of Richard’s work, please visit the CAC’s Mustard Seed Resource Center. For his teaching schedule, and more information about his work, please visit Center for Action and Contemplation at www.cac.org.
Love your new blog. Is there an RSS feed for it? Would love to get it in my google reader!
Thanks
I’m glad you have begun this blog. I’d love to subscribe to it, so that can automatically receive new postings. Have your “tech people” put the subscription icon on the Home page, and I’m sure a lot of people will want to do this.
OK, I am not too good at this blogging thing. I signed up to be notified of follow-up comments via email and my inbox is now on overload deluxe; so I need to just be notified when Father Rohr posts his new posts. I will then be able to check all the follow up comments when I have time to do so. How do I stop all the comments from coming in AFTER i already signed up for them.
I too would like a subscription setup so I automatically receive Fr. Richard’s blogs, and don’t have to remember to search for them. Thanks very much for this new service!
Marty, If you look on the home page of the blog: http://richardrohr.wordpress.com you will find a place in the right-hand column that says, “follow blog via e-mail.” If you click ‘Follow’ (or enter your e-mail address if you aren’t signed in to wordpress), you will be e-mailed each time Fr. Richard posts to the blog. So glad to have you with us! Every blessing, Cece
Dear Richard
In the PBS interview http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/november-11-2011/richard-rohr/9902/ you say, It’s not correct to say Jesus is God … Jesus is the union of the human and the divine.
I would like to read more about your thoughts on Jesus’ divine/human nature. I haven’t read any of your books yet but I would like to. (I just began reading Falling upward. I love it.) Have you written any books or articles specifically on the nature of Jesus? Or maybe you would like to write something on the blog on the subject?
Blessings
Bo Axelsen, Denmark
My God Bless You Fr Rohr
Dear Fr Rohr,
Your emailed meditations about the Shadow self and living in the Naked Now helped me this past winter when I was forced by circumstances to confront the person I really was. The largely fictional person whom I thought myself to be broke apart. In my humiliation and suffering I stood before God in all my brokenness and asked forgiveness for living a pretense. He forgave me, welcoming me with love, warts and all.
This has unleashed a torrent of grace in me. I have finally found the courage to turn my life over to Him completely. In six months, if all goes well and I am ready, I will be entering a Benedictine monastery as postulant. Praise Him!
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