ACIM History and Issues Articles

I have received a number of e-mail queries about Bruce MacDonald's piece on A Course in Miracles entitled Jesus, Abba and ACIM. In it, his guides, who claim to be Jesus and God, give their perspective on the Course, encouraging students to abandon it. I had initially...

Empowerment---it's everywhere you look. There could hardly be a larger theme in spiritual, self-help, and recovery circles. After ages of being subject to the constricting rules of religion and conventions of society, and after a lifetime of being batted about by a...

The Circle's Vision I.  To faithfully discern the author's vision of A Course in Miracles Our vision of A Course in Miracles Overall The teaching The program The Text = study The Workbook = practice The Manual for Teachers = extension This way of doing the Course has...

If you haven't read Absence from Felicity, by Ken Wapnick, I strongly encourage you to do so. I think Ken does an excellent job of telling Helen Schucman's story. For me, however, the real gem in this book is the personal guidance that Jesus gave Helen and Bill,...

I am currently reading a powerful and provocative book entitled The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong.[1]  We are used to hearing of sins against scripture, but the sins of scripture, the scripture’s own sins? One might assume that only an outsider, trying to...

On October 24, 2003, the copyright on A Course in Miracles® was dismissed. On that day, a verdict was issued in the copyright case between Endeavor Academy and FACIM (the Foundation for A Course in Miracles) and FIP (the Foundation for Inner Peace). Judge Robert W....

(This article is in part a response to "My Response to the Latest Absurd Accusations," by Gary Renard, much of which is rather pointedly directed at me.) In the end, we get the community we support. In A Course in Miracles, we have a written document of sublime truth,...

This article appeared in the September/October 2006 issue of Miracles magazine, published by Jon Mundy. The issue also included pieces by Greg Mackie (which was a shortened version of a longer piece appearing on this website) and by Jon himself. All three articles...

On May 28, 2004 , the copyright on A Course in Miracles passed away for good. That was the last day that the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM) could appeal the judgment by Judge Robert Sweet, signed on April 27, which voided the copyright. A Course in...

Jesus changed the world—we all know that. The world we live in is different in so many ways because he lived. And yet his legacy remains a deeply mixed bag, a bewildering tangle of both light and darkness. No one needs to remind us of all the hatred, war, and...