Holding the tension: The Power of Paradox
Fr. Richard is joined by Sr. Mary Beth Ingham in unpacking, on a practical level, the way to hold the tension and learn wisdom from our lives.
We were never taught to stop, to savour and to hold our feelings of fear, anger grief or loneliness. We were taught to get rid of our pain before we learned its lessons. Maybe that is why wisdom is so hard to find in our culture.
How Do We Breathe Under Water ? : The Gospel and 12-step Spirituality.
An addiction is a condition in which we feel we need more and more of what doesn't work. Its an attachment, and if we are honest we all have lots of them.
In this series Father Richard offers hope and practical suggestions from many sources including Bill Wilsons Big Book and Scripture. Listen and Grow!
Themes of Talks
1. The Big Book and the Gospel
2. Adictive Thinking.
3. Wounds as trophies.
How Do We Get Everything to Belong
The International Association of Spiritual Directors based their 2004 convention on Father Richards teaching " Everything Belongs "
Richard gives three one hour talks that weave the threads of this timless teaching. He illustrates the importance of the stumbling blocks that life inevitably places in our path and which lead us into that space where transformation can take place.
How Men Change
Fr. Richard shares insight on how men (and women) can change – through willingness to live in the light and the dark at the same time, in the shadowland, where both are embraced and held in the tension of daily life.
In the Footsteps of Francis
Join with Fr. Richard and friends to explore a different way of living in this world: a living of life in abundance and living it in a sense of “being drawn” rather than “being driven.”
Richard explores St. Francis’ life and vision from fresh eyes, avoiding the romanticism that often obscures Francis’ real message. Discover what “pre-emptive salvation” meant for Francis, and how that applies to you and your life. How might the “healing power of nature” benefit you? Is it real? What is the "final spiritual ecology"?
Jesus and Buddha
7 CDs 4 DVDs
The Four Noble Truths are the distilled essence of Buddhist teaching. The wisdom found in these truth's are closely related to the wisdom found in the teaching of Jesus.
Learn from two masters who spent a weekend exploring the parallels between these two traditions- these two paths to spiritual awakening. Hear and See in new ways and allow yourself to awaken to God's presence in every detail of your life .
Jesus as Liberator
Journey of Faith : Making One of Two
" Religion has a bad name at a broad level; that which was the best thing has become the worst thing". Thus Father Richard Rohr begins a remarkable presentation at a recent Palm Sunday event.
" The job discription of healthy religion is making one out of two, reconciling everything , that there is one God, one world and all are ther children of God. Everything deserves respect.
Laughing and Weeping: The Enneagram as a Tool for Non Dual Thought
Over the 2009 New Year holiday, Richard Rohr and Russ Hudson presented a teaching of the Enneagram to over 600 people in Albuquerque, NM.
Levels of Spiritual Growth
Richard quotes the early Franciscan scholar, John Duns Scotus, and many other spiritual masters: “Whatever is received is received according to the manner/mode of the receiver.” Those masters recognized that people are living at different levels or stages of awareness in their spiritual journey. The journey is much more complex and subtle than any system of defined levels or stages can express, but the tool helps the seeker understand better what dynamic is going on in his/her inner life, and what each person needs to pay attention to or ignore.
