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Reimagining Church: Contemplative Activism

Visioning a future church for the now; creating communities centered on Christ, cosmic good, and conscientious living.

Books

     All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming     Art and Faith     Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth     bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist     Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley     Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman          Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred     Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth     Confronting Whiteness: A Spiritual Journey of Reflection, Conversation, and Transformation     Creating a Life with God, Revised Edition     Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village     Do Better     Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee     The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World, Edited by Jenny Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani     Everyday Activism: Buck, J W: 9781540902610: Amazon.com: Books     Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty: Readings from an Old Monk's Journal Orbis Books     Face to the Rising Sun     Faith, Class, and Labor     Feed the Wolf: Befriending Our Fears in the Way of Saint Francis     Fierce Love by Dr. Jacqui Lewis     Finding Refuge     Home Is the Road: Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit          How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Odell, Jenny: 9781612197494: Amazon.com: Books     How to Live in a Chaotic Climate by LaUra Schmidt, Aimee Lewis Reau and Chelsie Rivera     Imagine Freedom     In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses     In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People          Jesus Takes a Side     Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation - Orbis Books     Life After Doom     Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day: Curtice, Kaitlin B.: 9781587435713: Amazon.com: Books          Meditations of the Heart     Micro Activism     BL_TNBBOCM_TheNewBigBookOfChristianMysticism_Cover_9781506486840c          On Love and Mercy          Picture of The Peace Project     Practice of the Presence: A Revolutionary Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher     Practicing     Image result for praying with our feet     Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change          Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality     Rebels, Despots, and Saints: The Ancestors Who Free Us and The Ancestors We Need to Free     Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth     Rest is Resistance     Rest is Sacred     Cover for Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul          The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton     Social Change Now     Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways     Collected Poems     Spirit Wheel: Meditations from an Indigenous Elder     The Spirituality of Dreaming: Unlocking the Wisdom of Our Sleeping Selves     The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone     Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers     This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley     Through the Eyes of Titans: Finding Courage to Redeem the Soul of a Nation     To Love Our Neighbors: Radical Practices in Solidarity, Sufficiency, and Sustainability     Today Everything Is Different: An Adventure in Prayer and Action          Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter     Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism     We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation by [Brian D. McLaren]          What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman     What Would Jesus See: Ways of Looking at a Disorienting World     Your Heart Was Made for This

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Oneing: The Cosmic Egg

Richard Rohr's biannual Oneing is available in hardcopy and as a downloadable pdf.

Drawing from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, one of the most radical speeches in human history, this encouraging and practical guide connects acts of contemplation with action, providing biblically based and spiritually grounded practices for living into the beloved community today.

Discover how spiritual practices can change the way you interact with the world and inspire lasting change.

READ A SAMPLE.

Small Group Guide — download here.

Local Resources

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United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities offers a list of Resources and Actions Amidst amidst the Chauvin Trialand the Death of Daunte Wright, including opportunities for Prayer/Meditation, Holding Memory, Changing Policies, Impacting Public Discourse, and Engaging Our Emotions.

Blogs, Podcasts, & Articles

Richard Rohr asks leaders to become - or make room for - Becoming Wise Fools.

Webinars

CONVERGENCE offers numerous leadership and community development webinars on-demand or in a cohort:

  • White Too Long: A Webinar with Robert Jones from the Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology

Engaging Christianities and Socialisms — The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice

Register for upcoming webinars here.

Watch previous webinars here.

Practices via Video

Barbara A. Holmes' film series with The Work of the People: A Transcendent Leap (on our cosmic identities), Womanist Theology, Release the Fire (on Pentecost and the Spirit), Be the Mystery, Emerging Wholeness (on God's call to love our neighbor), A Contemplative Moment (on how contemplative prayer births prophetic proclamation and action).