Exploring A Course in Miracles

Whether or not you think of yourself as a leader, someone in your life is watching you - and you're influencing them. In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry explores what A Course in Miracles says about leadership — not the "command and control" model most of us distrust, nor the "nobody's in charge" alternative many of us have romanticized, but something truly rooted in love instead. How ca...

Why does it seem harder than ever for us to talk across our differences? Why are so many feeling lonely, disconnected, and dissatisfied despite unprecedented focus on personal growth and self-care? And what role might love, forgiveness, and compassion have to play in healing our culture? In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Emily sits down with bestselling author, spiritual teacher,...

In a world that constantly demands our outrage, most of us have never stopped to ask whether our anger is actually working – or whether it's working against us. In this episode recorded at a recent Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry looks at what A Course in Miracles  teaches about the true roots of anger, and why the Course makes the radical claim that anger is never justified. If you're tired...

In this special Ask Us Anything episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily respond to real questions submitted by members of our Course Companions community. In this wide-ranging conversation, we explore questions such as: If the world is ultimately an illusion, how should we understand injustice and suffering? What responsibility do we have for our behavior toward others? Can a...

What does it look like when someone really shows up for you? And when did that become so rare? In this Sunday Gathering sermon, we're exploring what  A Course in Miracles says is at the root of our loneliness, our division, and our inability to get back to each other - as well as the surprisingly simple prescription it offers. We hope you'll plan to join us for our next Sunday Gathering. Access is...

The Course has a very specific answer to the question " Who are you?" - and it's an answer that, if you really let it in, changes everything. Join Robert and Emily Perry for this discussion of " Wake Up to What You Are," which will include what  A Course in Miracles  says is your true identity, the ego's case of mistaken identity, and what becomes possible when you stop asking the world who you ar...

In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Robert Perry explores How to Be Truly Wise , that is, the relationship between innocence and wisdom in A Course in Miracles . He looks at how true wisdom comes from a deeper, clearer way of seeing and considers what it means to let go of the belief in evil and begin to see with the eyes of innocence, where only truth and perfection are recognized. If you're longing...

A Course in Miracles  has its own form of psychotherapy—a complete approach to healing the mind rooted in its spiritual thought system. In this conversation, we explore the Course's approach to therapy, covering: What the Course teaches about psychotherapy Why therapy plays such a central role in its thought system How it compares to approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Why the Cours...

So many of us have learned that, in spiritual community, disagreement is a problem. We're supposed to be positive. Be loving. Anything else is ego. But what if complete agreement is not actually what love requires? In this Sunday Gathering sermon, we share a message called "Rethinking Disagreement in Spiritual Community," where we explore a powerful question: Is disagreement really unspiritual—or...

What if one of Christianity's core teachings is actually holding people back from love? In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Emily and Robert Perry sit down with Brian Recker, author of Hell Bent , to explore how the doctrine of hell shapes belief, behavior, and our image of God—and why it undermines a truly love-based spirituality. Brian shares his journey from a fundamentalist upb...

Everywhere we look in our world there are so many tragedies it's easy to ask, "Where is God in all of this?" Does He even know about our suffering and, if He does, why doesn't He do more? These are the questions that cut right to the heart of our deepest doubts and struggles with religion and spirituality. But this is also where A Course in Miracles can help, because the Course offers a series of...

In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily explore the meaning of Holy Week through the lens of A Course in Miracles . Holy Week marks the final days of Jesus' life—from his entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, to the crucifixion on Good Friday, to the resurrection on Easter Sunday. It's a week that didn't just shape Christianity—it changed the course of human history. Bu...

In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry explore an often overlooked dimension of the Course's history: the influence of Black voices and Black religious culture. Recorded during Black History Month, this conversation brings forward connections that have rarely been discussed in the Course community. From Helen Schucman's early spiritual formation in a Harlem Bapt...

In this sermon, Emily Perry explores the difference between true forgiveness and spiritual denial. When Course ideas like "this world is an illusion" or "there is nothing to forgive" are used casually, they can sound like avoidance—or even cruelty—in the face of real suffering. So how do we hold the Course's lofty metaphysics without bypassing pain, suppressing emotions, or dismissing injustice? D...

Overeating and food addiction are often hidden struggles—wrapped in shame, secrecy, and the exhausting cycle of "this will fix it" followed by guilt. Drawing on restored material from Helen Schucman's notes in the Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry explore the one powerful passage in the Course that directly mentions overeating—and what it reveals about...

In a time when empathy is increasingly being framed as a weakness—even a danger—this sermon asks a deeper question: what happens to us when we stop listening to one another's pain? Drawing on current cultural trends and the teachings of  A Course in Miracles , Emily Perry explores the difference between conventional empathy, which often bonds us through shared suffering, and what the Course calls...

In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry explore one of the Course's most challenging and liberating teachings: love without sacrifice. Drawing especially from Chapter 15 of the Text, this conversation looks at how many of our relationships are quietly shaped by what the Course calls demands for sacrifice. We often believe that love means giving things up for one...

In this Sunday Gathering sermon, "Choosing Love in Violent Times," Emily Perry draws on Martin Luther King  Jr.'s  "Birth of a New Age" sermon and  A Course in Miracles  to explore how love, forgiveness, and nonviolence can become powerful tools for personal and social transformation. This message reflects on  King's call to reject bitterness, choose redemption over retaliation, and help bring for...

In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry explores how  A Course in Miracle s  understands grief and loss and what it offers us when the pain feels overwhelming. Drawing on lived experience, psychological research, and the  Course's  teachings, Emily examines why grief often comes in waves, how grief differs from depression, why healing does not come from  " moving on "  but from integrating a...

I n this episode of Exploring  A Course in Miracles , Emily & Robert Perry sit down with New York Times bestselling author and Sirius XM host John Fugelsang to explore his insightful new book,  Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane  Person's  Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds *.  John has spent years unpacking how the teachings of Jesus have b...

As a new year approaches, many of us feel a deep longing for a true fresh start—not just a change in circumstances, but a real release from the past. In this sermon, given on December 28, we explore a powerful and often overlooked teaching from A Course in Miracles : how entering the holy instant can give birth to a year of genuine joy and freedom. Drawing from the final sections of Chapter 15, th...

In this conversation about Jesus's First Instructions on How to Live  A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily go back to the earliest days of the dictation of  A Course in Miracles,  when Jesus was first speaking to Helen Schucman and laying out—right from the start—how this Course was meant to be lived. The night before Helen heard the words,  "This is a course in miracles. Please take notes,"  a...

A Course in Miracles invites us to imagine a year unlike any we've lived before—one devoted to genuine spiritual change. In this webinar, Robert Perry explores five Course teachings about the new year and what it means to, as the Course says, "make this year different." Together, these teachings offer a clear and practical vision for dedicating the year to higher goals—and for actually living them...

In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry take a deep look at the Course's system of practical application—the concrete, daily instructions Jesus gives for meditation, guidance, forgiveness, prayer, miracle-mindedness, and the steady practices that allow the Course's promises to become real in our lives. The Course is not vague at all—it tells us exactly what to do...

In this sermon, Emily Perry explores  A Course in Miracles'  radically different vision of gratitude—not as a reaction to circumstances or a comparison of blessings, but as a way of seeing grounded in the unchanging gifts God has already given us. Drawing on  Lesson 195  and the powerful list of promises in  Lesson 123 , Emily examines why our usual forms of gratitude are so fragile, and how a dee...