The goal of A Course in Miracles is to produce miracle workers, people who devote their lives to extending love and forgiveness to others in thought, word, and deed. This extension heals others and thereby makes our own healing complete. What does a life of miracle...
How Should Course Students Respond to Protests and Civil Unrest? (June 12, 2020) As people across the US and indeed around the world have taken to the streets to protest in support of Black Lives Matter, I am hearing the question arise of whether taking sides is in...
In an earlier Course Meets World piece, I discussed the many commonalities between near-death experiences (or "NDEs") and A Course in Miracles. Since writing that piece, I have continued to be fascinated by this phenomenon. Recently, I read an excellent new book on...
Recently I came across the remarkable story of Ingrid Betancourt. She is the former candidate for the presidency of Colombia who was recently rescued (with fourteen others) after six years of being held hostage by the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...
I've followed with great interest reports on what has been called the "Saffron Revolution" in Myanmar (Burma). In a country that has been ruled by repressive military governments since 1962, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks have been peacefully demonstrating...
What Would the Course Have Us Do When Someone Seems to Fail Us? The world of college football has been rocked recently by a child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach at Penn State, a scandal that has led to the firing of legendary head coach Joe...
Many Course students have sent me a link to a video of a talk by Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who had a powerful spiritual experience of peace, joy, and oneness during a stroke. The video has become a sensation; more than two million viewers have seen it, and...
As we leave behind the recently completed Olympics in Rio, I'm reflecting on a question that Course students have asked me often over the years: Is competitive athletics compatible with A Course in Miracles? Obviously, like so many endeavors in human life, this one is...
Everyone steeped in the culture of self-help and recovery knows that denial is not "a river in Egypt," but a destructive means of keeping our addictions in place. However, a recent article in the New York Times presents a more benign view: While too much denial can be...
I recently read an excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian who was executed by the Nazis for participating in a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. The biography is called Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxis....
The battle between proponents of evolution and "intelligent design" is all the rage these days. Can evolution be reconciled with God? The fundamentalists who are the main advocates of intelligent design say no: Genesis says God created every species in the beginning,...
I just read a fascinating article by New York Times columnist David Brooks entitled "The Young and the Neuro." The article is about research findings in the growing field of social cognitive neuroscience, which studies the relationship between biology (especially...
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