A Better Way Archive

 A Better Way was the Circle’s newsletter from our founding in 1993. Below is an archive of issues from 2003 until we ceased publication in 2020. (Copies of A Better Way from 1993 – 2003 were printed and mailed and are not included in the archives below.) 

A Better Way #143

• Announcing the Story Project
• An Interview with Story Project Leaders Sue Pearson and Nancy Pickard
• The Trivial and the Traumatic
• The Vision That Changed My Life

A Better Way #142

• From the Paper on Which it Was Written into the Hearts for Which it was Intended: An Update on the Circle’s Visioning Process and Where We Go From Here
• The Circle’s Approach to A Course in Miracles
• Our Purpose & Values
• Meet Our Board Members

A Better Way #141

• The Fifty Miracle Principles: The Foundation that Jesus Laid for His Course
• Three Habits the Course Wants Us to Form

A Better Way #140

• From False Guiltlessness to True Guiltlessness: A Commentary on Helen’s Concept of “Healthy Guilt Feelings”

A Better Way #139

• Readers’ Experiences of Our New Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #138

• “You Need to Learn How to Love Other People” A Story of Guidance

A Better Way #137

• Miracles Depend on Timing: Trusting in the Process of Positive Change

A Better Way #136

• “The Sole Responsibility of the Miracle Worker” What Does That Line Really Mean?

A Better Way #135

• I Need Be Anxious Over Nothing: The Course’s Promise of a Carefree Life

A Better Way #134

• How Does Projection Really Work?

A Better Way #133

• The Outcome Is As Certain As God: The Blessings of Infinite Patience

A Better Way #132

• Course Lore: Common Misconceptions and Their Correction

A Better Way #131

• Every Problem Quietly Resolved: The Liberating Problem-Solving Approach of “The Quiet Answer” (T-27.IV)

A Better Way #130

• The Holy Spirit: The Voice for God or the Voice of God?

A Better Way #129

• We Have the Answer: Jesus’ Vision of a Better World and How We Can Achieve It

A Better Way #128

• The Course’s Program: Studying, Practicing, and Extending Jesus’ New Meaning, So That It Becomes the Only Meaning for You

A Better Way #127

• Purpose, Vision, Guidance: The Foundation for a Fulfilling Life

A Better Way #126

• “Shall We Not Speak to Him?” What to Do with the Prayers in the Workbook

A Better Way #125

• The Ultimate Problem-Solving Repertoire: How A Course in Miracles Has Helped Us in Couples Counseling — and How It Could Become a Helper of the World

A Better Way #124

• Healing is Reparation: The Relief of No Longer Having to Be Mistake Free

A Better Way #123

• Jesus as Therapist: The Discourse about Bill’s Parents

A Better Way #122

• The Inexpressible Sanctity of Personhood

A Better Way #121

• Healing the Conflict of Wills

A Better Way #120

• Unloosening the Chains of Time: The Practice of Letting Go of the Previous Hour and Blessing the Hour to Come

A Better Way #119

• “A Method of Conversion:” Thoughts on How to Truly Change Hearts and Minds

A Better Way #118

• “The Power of the Mind and the Challenges of Our Lives:” What Role Does One Play in the Other?
• Sacred Exchange: Real Healing

A Better Way #117

• “What Should I Do for Him, Your Holy Son?” How We Can Truly Forgive Others and Set Ourselves Free

A Better Way #116

• “The Loneliness Is Gone” Thoughts on Inviting a Closer Relationship with Jesus

A Better Way #115

• At Home in a New World

A Better Way #114

• Should the Course Community Actually Be United?

A Better Way #113

• Could the Course Community Actually Be United?

A Better Way #112

• Why Are You Not Rejoicing? The Spirit of Celebration in the Historical Jesus and A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #111

• Individual Responsibility or Communal Responsibility: What Would the Course Have Us Emphasize?

A Better Way #110

• “Do Not See Error” — How Not Making Error Real Makes Forgiveness Easy

A Better Way #109

• “Breaching the Wall of Pain”

A Better Way #108

• “God Is Still Love, and This Is Not His Will”: The Light That Shines Away the Darkness

A Better Way #107

• “All My Sorrows End in Your Embrace”: The Concept of “Embrace” in A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #106

• Unconditional — What a Wonderful Word

A Better Way #105

• Does the Course’s Teaching on Vision Fit What People Experience?

A Better Way #104

• What Is Vision?

A Better Way #103

• Who Made the World?

A Better Way #102

• My Course-based Jury Duty

A Better Way #101

• How Ridiculous to Think That Love Could Be Compromised?

A Better Way #100

• Forgiveness: The Recognition of Inestimable Worth

A Better Way #99

• It All Served to Benefit the Word

A Better Way #98

• The Religion of the Ego

A Better Way #97

• The Earthquake in Haiti: A Call for Miracles
• Groundhog Day

A Better Way #96

• The Creative Impulse: What Place Does it Have in the Spiritual Life?

A Better Way #95

• Happy Fiction: A Course Perspective on the Stories We Tell

A Better Way #94

• “I Will There Be Light”

A Better Way #93

• What Is the Meaning of Love?

A Better Way #92

• What Is the Soul?

A Better Way #91

• A New Vision of the Miracle

A Better Way #90

• How Exactly Is Attack a Call for Love?

A Better Way #89

• The Law of Love is Universal: Reflections on the Prayer for Lesson 345

A Better Way #88

• “This Course Is a Guide to Behavior” Part II: The Joy of Releasing the Miracle Drive

A Better Way #87

• “This Course Is a Guide to Behavior” Part I: The Presence and Role of Behavior in A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #86

• Is Reading Signs Compatible with A Course in Miracles?

A Better Way #85

• “For This You Yearn” The Goal of Holiness in A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #84

• Brother, Can You Spare a Miracle?

A Better Way #83

• It’s For Real: Finding and Fulfilling Your Special Function

A Better Way #82

• What on Earth Is Our Special Function?

A Better Way #81

• The Holy Relationship: The Source of Your Salvation

A Better Way #80

• “These Words Dispel the Night”

A Better Way #79

• Never Correct a Brother’s Error?
• “Learn to See These Foolish Applications”

A Better Way #78

• Interpretation and the Future of the Course
• Responses to Boomeritis Questionnaire

A Better Way #77

• I Follow the Way Appointed Me
• Miracles Boomeritis Questionnaire

A Better Way #76

• A Conversation with Readers about Miracle Boomeritis

A Better Way #75

• Miracle Boomeritis

A Better Way #74

• The Urgency of Doing Our Part in Salvation

A Better Way #73

• Anchoring a Tradition

A Better Way #72

• Realizing the Promises of the Course

A Better Way #71

• The Practice of Being Present to God

A Better Way #70

• The Joy of Realizing That This Place is Hell

A Better Way #69

• Questioning Every Value That You Hold

A Better Way #68

• What is God Like?

A Better Way #67

• How Do We Spend Our Days After the Workbook?

A Better Way #66

• The Importance of Relationships in A Course in Miracles
• The Answer I Had Been Looking For

A Better Way #65

• Seek Not to Change the World?

A Better Way #64

• Why I AM a Course Purist

A Better Way #63

• What If Jesus Really Did Write This?

A Better Way #62

• A Course in Miracles and The Secret

A Better Way #61

• The Rules That Promise You a Happy Day

A Better Way #60

• How Is Our Brother Our Savior?

A Better Way #59

• The Course’s Nondualism: Love is a Law Without an Opposite

A Better Way #58

• The Conclusion of Return to the Heart of God

A Better Way #57

• Open Mind Meditation: The Practice of the Final Step

A Better Way #56

• Invincible
• The Hidden Power of IMIF Decisions
• What Does It Mean to Be in the Present?
• A Course in Cause and Not Effect
• Resign Now as Your Own Teacher
• Allen Watson Retiring

A Better Way #55

• This Is a Course for Miracle Workers: Please Clock In
• The Doorway to Reality
• Thine Is the Kingdom

A Better Way #54

• “Make This Year Different” How the Course Would Have Us Approach the New Year
• Should We “Should” on Ourselves?
• The Movie Projector Analogy Revisited

A Better Way #53

• Shadows on the Wall — How Would the Course Have Us Regard Modern Physics?
• How Does God’s Voice Speak To Me Through My Brothers?
• How Did Sin Give the Body Eyes? Commentary on Paragraph 1 of “What is Sin?”
• I Do Not Know

A Better Way #52

• Does A Course in Miracles Commit the “Sins of Scripture”?
• From Monkey Mind to the Mind of God
• A New Way of Looking at Yourself
• What Does the Course Mean by “Heart”?

A Better Way #51

• Medicine for Those Pangs of Guilt
• The Many-Faceted Diamond of A Course in Miracles
• Confused About Level Confusion

A Better Way #50

• Do You Believe in Miracles? The Holy Encounter between Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols
• Special Issue: The Holy Encounter
• Fejzic and His Cow
• Your Name is Brother

A Better Way #49

• Helen and Bill’s Joining: A Window onto the Heart of A Course in Miracles
• How to Enter Paradise Today

A Better Way #48

• Good King Wenceslas
• An Untrained Person Can Accomplish Nothing
• How to Deal with Payment in a Spiritual Ministry

A Better Way #47

• The Earlier Versions and the Editing of A Course in Miracles

A Better Way #46

• Practice-Oriented Spirituality: Unleashing the Power of Conscious Commitment
• “Course-Sanctioned” Excuses to Not Practice the Lessons
• What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher of God?
• Living with Our Imperfections
• And Now it Belongs to the World

A Better Way #45

• Excerpt from Path of Light: Ten Characteristics of the Spiritually Advanced
• Making Error Real
• When Should You Take Your Morning Quiet Time?
• Practice Tip: Early Evening Quiet Time
• Extension is Energizing
• The Holy Spirit Will Provide
• Circle Workbook Practice

A Better Way #43

• Traveling Lightly
• “The Ego Does Want to Kill You” An Experience of the Murderer Within
• What is a Holy Instant? Part II, Specific Examples and Characteristics
• We Can Be Wrong

A Better Way #42

• Above the Battleground: Applying the Course to the War in Iraq
• Should There Be Course Churches?
• A Simple Healing Prayer
• Helping Others in the World Makes the Error Real: Does the Course Really Say This?
• What is a Holy Instant? Part I
• How Does A Course in Miracles Regard the Lord’s Prayer?
• The Weird Disease

A Better Way #41

• Beauty from My Christian Past
• Walking with the Holy Spirit in Post-Workbook Practice
• Loving God
• When Your Back Is up against the Wall
• “If You Do It, You Will See That It Works” An Experience of Universal Love