The Central Baptist Church in Sydney, Australia has erected a sign saying, "Jesus Loves Osama"—referring, of course, to the infamous leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Osama bin Laden. At the bottom of the sign, in smaller letters, is the gospel quotation from...
An Update on the Circle’s Visioning Process and Where We Go from Here WATCH THIS UPDATE HERE On New Years’ Eve 1975, three years after the scribing had been completed, Helen Schucman received a “special message” from Jesus about the future of A Course in Miracles. He...
Question: May a Course student serve on a jury, and if so, how? Short answer: I believe that a Course student can serve on a jury in a way that is true to the Course’s path. It is true that the world’s legal systems, like all of the world’s systems, were devised to...
Anyone who's not meditating in a cave somewhere knows that the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China have just concluded. I have to confess that I enjoy watching the Olympics, which may sound strange coming from a Course teacher. How can a Course teacher enjoy an...
Toward a Truly Helpful Response to the World Situation Recently, Robert and I published an article on a brief passage in the original dictation of A Course in Miracles that almost certainly refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms." This article, titled We...
Looking Calmly at the Monster and Letting It Go This is an edited version of the class notes for a class taught at the Circle of Atonement on Tuesday, May 18, 2004. The recent revelations of severe prisoner abuse—even torture—by American military personnel in Iraq...
It's a sad fact that when we hear about Muslims in the news these days, it's usually about fundamentalists blowing people up in the name of global jihad. But as I watched public broadcasting's excellent Religion and Ethics Newsweekly program a couple of weeks ago, I...
The big event in the news right now is the upcoming American election. Needless to say, A Course in Miracles doesn't give us any advice about which candidates to choose. However, interestingly enough, the original typescript of the Course has a passage that refers to...
It is a truism that we live in violent times. With the daily reports of crime, war, and terrorism screaming from our newspaper headlines, television sets, and Internet news sites, who could possibly suggest otherwise? Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker does suggest...
I recently read a review of what looks like a fascinating book: A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, by Cordelia Fine, a psychologist at the Australian National University. (The review is by Richard Lipkin, and appears in the August/September 2006...
A big news story recently has been the saga of Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor who is the latest in a series of big-name politicians caught having an extramarital affair. Many have reacted, not surprisingly, with outrage: It's bad enough to cheat on your...
As people who follow the news in the US know, there has been yet another school shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. On Thursday, October 1, Chris Harper-Mercer killed nine people and wounded nine others, engaged in a shootout with...
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