Forgiveness and Relationships Articles

I recently read an article on the research being done on near-death experiences (“Altered States: Scientists Analyze the Near-Death Experience,” by Lee Graves, The University of Virginia Magazine, Summer 2007). While I was impressed by the evidence being compiled that...

This week, I read an inspiring New York Times story about a man named Roy Ratcliff, minister of the Mandrake Road Church of Christ in Madison, Wisconsin. He was living an ordinary life as a nondescript minister of a small church, when one day something happened that...

A Course in Miracles is all about forgiveness and joining, so now and then I like to share a story that exemplifies these values. Recently, I came across the remarkable story of Unabomber victim Gary Wright and the Unabomber's brother, David Kaczynski. You would think...

I recently saw a great question posed on the religious dialogue website On Faith: "How can we forgive our enemies? Should we, even if they have committed atrocities?" Well-known religious writer John Shelby Spong gives what I think is an amazing answer, especially in...

I am a hospice volunteer, and to help me in my work I'm reading a wonderful book called The Needs of the Dying by David Kessler, an associate of the late Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In it there is a beautiful story that illustrates the teaching of A Course in Miracles that...

An Extraordinary Story of Forgiveness and Transformation A Course in Miracles claims that we can literally raise people from the dead, just as Jesus did in his earthly life (see T-1.I.24:1). There is, after all, no order of difficulty in miracles. But this seems very...

Since forgiveness is the central teaching of A Course in Miracles, I love true stories of forgiveness in extreme situations. I found another recently in a story featured on Oprah. This is the story of Kent Whitaker, who forgave his son for an act so horrifying it is...

A Way Out of Guilt Over Our Past Mistakes Virtually all of us have experienced nagging guilt over something we did in the past that hurt someone else. Perhaps it was an outright attack that was meant to hurt at the time, but is now regretted. Perhaps it was a...

Since the central teaching of A Course in Miracles is forgiveness, I love hearing about extreme forgiveness stories in which someone forgives the seemingly unforgivable. I've shared a few of those in these "Course Meets World" Commentaries, such as Roy Ratcliff...

I love great forgiveness stories, and recently I saw a remarkable demonstration of forgiveness that touched my heart. It is a story about a Major League baseball pitcher who threw a perfect game, an umpire whose inexplicable mistake took that perfect game away, and...

A Mexican Assassin Is Healed by the Miracle of Forgiveness Why do we find it so difficult to forgive other people, especially when their apparent attack on us is extreme? One reason is that, in our eyes, it seems that the attacker is gaining something at our expense...

One of the big events in the news right now is the horrific shooting massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. On July 20, James Eagan Holmes opened fire during a premier of the new Batman movie, killing twelve and wounding fifty-eight more. Of course, we...