(This is a chapter that Robert was invited to write for a scholarly collection titled The Healing Power of Spirituality: How Faith Helps Humans Thrive, edited by J. Harold Ellens. It appears in Volume I of that collection, Personal Spirituality.) ******** The Sayings...
We all know that Jesus spoke in parables. Many historians, however, believe he behaved in parables as well. Perhaps, then, his final acts were really his final parable, the one that contained all the rest and proved that they were more than mere stories. Here is my...
The Course says that we choose our life events It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept....
Virtually everyone in the Western world knows the traditional Christmas story. Every Christmas, we are reminded of the familiar images: the baby Jesus lying in a manger, the Virgin Mary and her husband Joseph looking lovingly upon him, shepherds and animals gathered...
The topic of "God's Name" in the Course is one that has baffled many Course students, myself included. The Course contains a number of references to the Name of God, telling us that we share this "ancient Name" (T-26.VII.20:1) with Him and with all our brothers....
This week is Holy Week, the week Christians commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. This week is central to the Christian faith, for according to the tenets of that faith, the events Holy Week celebrates are those which brought about the Atonement,...
Renowned Jesus scholar Marcus Borg has recently written a book entitled Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Borg presents a comprehensive portrait of the Jesus of history, based on a lifetime of...
I just watched The Lost Tomb of Jesus, a film produced by James Cameron (of Titanic fame) which has caused quite a stir among those interested in the historical Jesus. It claims that a tomb discovered in Jerusalem in 1980 is highly likely to be the family tomb of...
A Course in Miracles claims that Jesus is its author, but how can we really know this is so? There's no way it could ever be proven one way or the other, but one way to at least evaluate the plausibility of the Course's claim is to compare the Jesus of the Course to...
When we face a difficult problem in our lives, we are often advised to "sleep on it." A recent article in the Daily Mail (UK) describes scientific research that supports this advice. A number of studies have shown that sleep does a lot more than simply provide rest...
I recently attended a fascinating workshop by Jesus scholar Roy Hoover. Hoover presented evidence that Jesus' original message, stripped of the later theological agendas of the gospel writers, was truly radical: a "perfectionist" ethic of unconditional love and...
The problem of reconciling an all-powerful, all-loving God with the immense suffering of this world has perplexed human beings from time immemorial. For biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, this problem was so vexing that failure to resolve it turned him from a committed...
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