Good Friday 2025: The Cross and A Course in Miracles

In the morning after prayer I go outside with my coffee. I greet the lilies springing up through crumbling soil. I bless the robins flying away. It’s Good Friday, and my heart is happy, my mind at range. Easter is near; the evidence is everywhere. And yet. Before we remember the grace of Easter, weContinue reading “Good Friday 2025: The Cross and A Course in Miracles”

Reading the ACIM Manual for Teachers: Introduction

A Course in Miracles reframes traditional concepts of teaching and learning (and thus of student and teacher), with an eye toward bringing us to responsibility for healing in all our relationships. In the traditional view, teaching is a profession, a 9-to-5 type of gig – you train, get certified, find a job, develop professionally. TeachersContinue reading “Reading the ACIM Manual for Teachers: Introduction”

A Course in Miracles: What is Salvation

Salvation is a promise made by God that we are not separate from God, and that the illusion that we are separate will end. It is a promise that our current state of confusion, despair, struggle and pain is not real and will pass away, taking all its effects with it. Nothing happened. It’s allContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: What is Salvation”

ACIM Miracle Principles: An Introduction

You can also skip to the full index. A Course in Miracles is not a handbook for a lifelong spiritual practice of nondual bliss. It is not a new age fantasy of oneness with the cosmos. Its lessons do not teach a form of post-Christian mysticism. It’s not a spiritual variation of “I’m okay, you’reContinue reading “ACIM Miracle Principles: An Introduction”