If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.” BB: I don’t want it, because I don’t want to give it to people when that happens. And yet again, my prayer, I’m trapped in certain grace. I mean, I cannot get out of God’s grace if I try. It seems unrelenting. BB: Let me ask you about this unlearning, because I’m unlearning right now. I’m unlearning about mercy and grace right now, because I kind of want a deposit withdraw system around grace. I would like grace to be a meritocracy. Evangelical Denver Seminary professor Douglas Groothuis asserts that Rohr draws on Eastern mysticism rather than a biblical worldview by preaching finding our "true self" instead of knowing a savior distinct from the self. [36] Groothuis argues that Rohr subverts the "biblical worldview with most egregious errors" to support pantheism, comparing his Christology to New Age interpretations. Groothuis states that Rohr distorts the gospel since his emanational metaphysics is based on perennial tradition. [37]

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Rohr, Richard. "Statement by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM after meeting Pope Francis". Center for Action and Contemplation . Retrieved 17 August 2023. RR: Do it right. Then we remain inside of the quid pro quo universe, which is the one we prefer. Where two plus two equals four. On THE DIVINE DANCE]: Finding the sweet spot where contemporary science meets ancient mysticism, and theology meets poetry, The Divine Dance sketches a beautiful choreography for a life well-lived. In our joy or our pain, true life is always relational, a flow, a dance. (And was always meant to be.) - Bono, U2 Naked, and You Clothed Me: Homilies and Reflections for Cycle A, Jim Knipper, ed. (Clear Faith Publishing, 2013) Fr. Richard is author of numerous books, including Everything Belongs, Adam’s Return, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, Immortal Diamond, Eager to Love, and The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (with Mike Morrell).

BB: So I loved it though because Joe Reynolds, the dean, I’m an Episcopalian, and the dean at our church said he called it the Un-American Parable. BB: I reread it before this podcast, and I wonder sometimes, I think about my church and other churches, I wonder if the people who run churches gather and say, “Don’t forget everybody. Our supreme task is healing.” BB: Yeah, no, I’ve been whomped, for sure. What is one of your quotes? Let me think about it. I don’t have it. RR: Oh, God. That’s beautiful. Because that’s true, that’s the way it works. Yeah, go ahead. I want to hear. RR: They did. “We don’t need critical thinking, it’s what we Catholics call it, ‘The Protestant Instinct,’ to protest everything.” It’s an anti-stance. Now, it doesn’t have to be, but it often is. And until you get beyond the anti-stance of, “I’m here to change other people, to get other people to join my club,” I don’t think you’ve got true religion in even close. It’s just a belonging system that tells me I’m right.

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RR: I don’t know, you would normally wouldn’t call that a friend, would you? Who’s whomping you on the side of the head. RR: Because I’m on the receiving end. I’m on the vulnerable end. You figure it out. Without vulnerability, you can’t get the gospel. You just can’t. If it’s another steering exercise, a way to steer my life. Wild Man's Journey: Reflections on Male Spirituality (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, ISBN 0-86716-279-1, 1986; Revised edition 1996) RR: And they only gained the self-confidence to talk that way. I mean, what, I’ve been a priest 52 years now. By observing, just observe the patterns, here and in so many other countries. You said something I didn’t respond to, what’d you say? Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount (with J. Feister) (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0-86716-203-5

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RR: And the Franciscan church is on the corner, and my little hermitage is behind that, so everything’s in this one mile long road. Isn’t that interesting?Tippett, Krista (April 13, 2017). "Richard Rohr — Living in Deep Time". The On Being Project . Retrieved 2018-06-05. A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer (Paulist Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-58768-064-9 He writes that Jesus praised faith and trust more than love. Really? Where in the Bible did he find that? In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.” Offers a refreshing critique of culture – and sometimes church-based values so often imprisoned in a ‘first life’ sensibility . . . Rohr sees the arc of ageing as bewilderingly complex, shifting, unquantifiable and tragic in the truest sense of the word: the art of dying becomes the crowning glory of human life itself, the only route, it seems, to our eternal home. - Manna Magazine