Course Meets World Articles

The Course uses numerous artistic techniques to bring greater impact to its message. Specifically, since it is a book, it uses techniques drawn from literature and poetry (sometimes adapting the techniques of music). Here are just a few of the many techniques the...

The idea that we are living in some sort of artificial world has long fascinated human beings. This fascination is reflected in the numerous science fiction works on this topic, and in the popularity of movies like the Matrix trilogy and The Truman Show. Most of us, of...

Every once in a while, I like to share an inspiring forgiveness story in these "Course Meets World" pieces. Recently, a friend passed on another of these amazing stories: the account of Amanda Lindhout, who was captured and tortured by a Somali militia but survived her...

Recently, the world marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001. This has led to a lot of commentary on America's response to those attacks and how that response has impacted the past decade. Most of the mainstream commentaries have agreed that...

Studying and Experiencing the Course as a Great Work of Art In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the idea that A Course in Miracles is a great work of art. In that article, we saw that the Course uses artistic techniques to accomplish the goals of art: to move us...

"What is A Course in Miracles?" Robert Perry has offered his answer to this vitally important question elsewhere on this website (see Robert's article, What is A Course in Miracles?). He suggests that a complete answer requires us to recognize that the Course's author...

The New Program in Spiritual Psychology at Columbia I recently read a New York Times article which described a new program in spiritual psychology at Columbia University, the first of its kind at an Ivy League school. In my eyes, this program, started at the very place...

On the excellent PBS television show Bill Moyers Journal, I recently saw a fascinating interview with James Cone, an African American scholar, minister, and theologian who teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The interview covers a variety of topics,...

Hardly a day goes by without another ominous report on global warming. Just a couple of days ago, I read an article about a series of authoritative studies that say global warming is accelerating three times more quickly than the worst predictions. The scientific...

Note: The specific audience for this article on extremist Islamic terrorism is non-Muslims in the Western world, simply because this is the main audience that reads my work. I believe the general principles I discuss here apply to everyone, but of course they would...

Reflections on the Death Sentence for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber: One of the big events in the news recently was the conviction and sentencing to death of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the young man whose terrorist attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon...

When we first decided to do this newsletter on the theme of "miracles," I wasn't sure what particular topic I wanted to write about. I considered several ideas, and even made starts on a couple of them. But then, like everyone else, I was shocked out of my daily...