A Lever and a Place to Stand- Richard Rohr Book

A Lever and a Place to Stand

The Contemplative Stance, The Active Prayer

Richard Rohr

This book, by a well-respected spiritual master, offers a critique of religious attitudes that create an alternative pious world for their believer without really challenging the oppression, materialism, and sectarianism of our modern world.  According to Richard Rohr, religion without a genuinely contemplative stance is often at the root of the problem.  He explains that religion can only recover its purpose as a transformational system if it overcomes it own temptation to embrace power, certitude, wealth and fundamentalism.  A true contemplative stance crosses boundaries and is not concerned with who is "in" and who is "out". All people can achieve contemplative awareness, and dramatically transform the role of religion in their lives, if they take seriously the Gospel's message that the kingdom of heaven is "hidden in plain sight" - and now!

Transcript of John Main Seminar - Thousand Oaks California, 2005