{"id":285,"date":"2022-07-08T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2022-07-10T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T06:17:38","slug":"web-spiritual-growth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/recommended-resources\/recommended-reading\/web-spiritual-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Web &#8211; Spiritual Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/godspacelight.com\/about\/\">Godspace<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><em>Founded and facilitated by Christine Sine<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"vc_custom_heading\">An invitation to create a pathway to a more vital whole-life faith.<\/p>\n<p>Through diverse voices from around the world we seek to inspire readers to notice, explore and experiment with fresh ways to connect more intimately to God, more effectively to their neighbours and more responsibly to creation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 id=\"h-the-center-for-action-and-contemplation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/about\/who-we-are\/\">The Center for Action and Contemplation<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) is an educational nonprofit introducing seekers to the contemplative Christian path of transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Franciscan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/about\/richard-rohr\/\">Richard Rohr<\/a>\u00a0founded the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in 1987 because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation\u2014the two are inseparable. As Father Richard likes to say, the most important word in our Center\u2019s name is neither Action nor Contemplation, but the word\u00a0<em>and<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/about\/what-is-contemplation\/\">Contemplation<\/a>\u00a0is a way of listening with the heart while not relying entirely on the head. Contemplation is a prayerful letting go of our sense of control and choosing to cooperate with God and God\u2019s work in the world. Prayer without action, as Father Richard says, can promote our tendency to self-preoccupation, and without contemplation, even well-intended actions can cause more harm than good.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godspace Founded and facilitated by Christine Sine An invitation to create a pathway to a more vital whole-life faith. Through diverse voices from around the world we seek to inspire readers to notice, explore and experiment with fresh ways to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/recommended-resources\/recommended-reading\/web-spiritual-growth\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/331"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faithandpractice.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}