The Tears of Things
How do we live compassionately in times of violence and despair? The writings of the Jewish prophets may have an answer. In this session Richard Rohr will explore how walking the full path of the...
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Richard Rohr, Martin WroeAction and Contemplation – Transforming Church and World
Integrating the two 'edges' - a deep inner life and an outer life of worldly service - is the great art form of Christian life. We tend to stay in the middle, attending services and belonging to...
What is Masculine Spirituality
Why have most primal cultures 'initiated' their men and not their women? And why does the male soul respond differently to images, stories, grief, the Divine, intimacy, community and relationships...
Spirituality..2 Halves of Life
A healthy tree needs a trunk, and then fruit. A look at the implications of this for the spiritual journey and for social action. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan monk. He was the founder of the New...
Tree of Life; No Leaves…….
(see The Spirituality of the Two Halves of Life) Richard Rohr is a Franciscan monk. He was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community and the Center for Action and Contemplation. He is a regular...
The Cross….Axis of the World
In naming, subverting, and transforming the universal scapegoat mechanism, Jesus really was a turning point in history. How can we be a part of his tree of life? Richard Rohr is a Franciscan monk....
The Art of Looking Sideways at Christ
St. Augustine said that “If you understand it, then it is not God”. All religious language is necessarily metaphorical, which has a much better chance of leading us toward the mystical and...
The art of looking sideways at the Bible snippet
Language by gift and necessity is dualistic (distinguishing this from that) and metaphorical (it is pointing to the thing, but is not itself the thing). Jesus understood that much better than we do,...
The Art of Looking Sideways at the Church
Is there a “wisdom way” of looking at the support system that we call the church? How can we love it and not idolise it, learn from it and not ignore it, critique it without rejecting it, be a...
The art of looking sideways at us
The mind thinks it can look at things directly and understand them – which is a very big assumption.There is another way of knowing ourselves and one another that Fr Richard Rohr calls “non dual...