Exploring A Course in Miracles
Religion & Spirituality
About
Exploring A Course in Miracles offers in-depth conversations on Course-related topics from Robert and Emily Perry. To learn more about Circle of Atonement offerings for your A Course in Miracles journey, including our Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles and our Course Companions online learning community, please visit www.circleofa.org.
Episodes
- How to Be Truly Wise
In this sermon, Robert Perry examines the connection between innocence and wisdom within A Course in Miracles. He explains that genuine wisdom stems from a clearer perception, suggesting a release from the belief in evil to embrace an inno…
- A Course in Miracles' Vision of Therapy
This episode examines the psychotherapy model presented in A Course in Miracles, detailing its spiritual underpinnings, its emphasis on changing perception over past analysis, and the significance of forgiveness for psychological healing.…
- Rethinking Disagreement in Spiritual Community
This sermon from Exploring A Course in Miracles addresses the common belief that disagreement is problematic in spiritual communities. It questions whether complete agreement is truly necessary for love and explores the tension between mai…
- Christianity Without Hell: A Conversation with Brian Recker
Brian Recker, author of Hell Bent, joins Emily and Robert Perry to discuss the doctrine of hell's impact on Christian belief, behavior, and the image of God. Recker shares his personal journey from a fundamentalist background to questionin…
- Where is God in a World Full of Suffering?
This episode addresses the question "Where is God in all of this?" by examining the teachings of A Course in Miracles. It explores how the Course provides a framework for understanding God's presence and role in a world marked by suffering…
- Holy Week for ACIM Students
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…
- Black Voices in A Course in Miracles
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…
- ACIM & Spiritual Bypassing: The Difference Between Forgiveness and Denial (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
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…
- Healing Overeating with A Course in Miracles
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 Ed…
- True Empathy in a Wounded World
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…
- Love Without Sacrifice: Releasing Others from Our Demands
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 loo…
- Choosing Love in Violent Times (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
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 too…
- Healing from Grief and Loss with A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry explores how A Course in Miracles understands grief and loss and what it offers us when the pain feels overwhelming. Drawing on lived experience, psychological research, and the Course's teachin…
- Separation of Church and Hate with John Fugelsang
In 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 G…
- Accept the Holy Instant as This Year Is Born (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
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…
- Jesus's First Instructions on How to Live A Course in Miracles
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…
- Bonus: "Make This Year Different": ACIM Teachings on the New Year
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 sa…
- Living A Course in Miracles in 2026
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…
- The Gratitude ACIM Calls Us To (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
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 giv…
- The Last Judgement
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry take on one of the most influential ideas in all of spirituality: the Last Judgment. They explore what the Bible says about it, how this concept has shaped Western…
- Your True Identity (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry explores one of A Course in Miracles ' most beautiful and foundational teachings: your true identity as God created you. Not the self defined by the ego, the world, or the body—but the self that…
- There IS an Other
Is the spiritual journey a solo project? Some students think the Course means "no one out there," so caring, helping, or addressing suffering isn't really part of our awakening. In this conversation, Robert and Emily Perry make a practical…
- A Course in Miracle's Vision for the World (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this sermon Emily Perry explores A Course in Miracles ' powerful social vision — a blueprint for how inner healing spreads outward to reshape communities and our world. Discover how the Course's recurring imagery (deserts, gardens, temp…
- How to Be a Peacemaker in a Divided World with Jer Swigart
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Emily Perry is joined by Jer Swigart of Global Immersion to talk about what it means to live as an everyday peacemaker in a time of deep global division. Together they explore how to enga…
- What is the Meaning of Love in A Course in Miracles? (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
What if A Course in Miracles really does give us the meaning of love—just not in the way we expect? In this message, Robert Perry shows how the Course offers a lived recognition of love as purely giving—changeless and equal for everyone. Y…
- The Ego's Version of Love
Why do so many relationships that begin with such promise end in conflict, disconnection, or despair? In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry look at the ego's version of love—a love rooted in self-focus…
- Powerful Beyond Measure (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry explores what A Course In Miracles says about our God-given power and how to reclaim it. If you've ever wondered whether you can truly change more than just your outlook—if you can help change t…
- Jon Mundy on A Course in Miracles Scribe Helen Schucman
Join Robert and Emily Perry for a conversation with longtime Course teacher Jon Mundy as he shares personal stories of his time with Helen Schucman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles . Jon knew Helen for many years and was even the inspir…
- Is A Course in Miracle Compatible with Christianity?
Too Christian for New Age, too New Age for Christians—where does A Course in Miracles really belong? In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry take a closer look at one of the most common and controversial…
- The Spiritual Disease of Hate (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering message that draws upon the work of James Baldwin and the teachings of A Course in Miracles , Emily Perry explores how hate functions like a spiritual cancer—growing silently within us until it erupts into division…
- What is God Like?
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry dive into one of the most important questions of the spiritual journey: Who is God, really? How we see God shapes everything. If we see Him as hostile, we live in f…
- Who is the Path Calling You to Be? (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering message, Emily Perry invites you to explore one of the most important questions on the spiritual journey: Who is your path calling you to become? Through real-life examples, practical guidance, and the wisdom from…
- How to be More Loving
In this episode, Robert and Emily Perry dive into the content and the backstory of "The Journey Into Fear"—a newly restored Text section in the Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles . The message of this section is as radi…
- A New Vision of Faith (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Emily Perry draws inspiration from Frederick Douglass' powerful 1852 speech "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?" to examine the gap between the high ideals of faith and the painful realities we see…
- ACIM for Parents
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert & Emily Perry dive into what A Course in Miracles teaches about parenting—and how those teachings have shaped their own parenting journeys. You'll learn: What the Course says about…
- A Call for Justice (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this sermon, Emily Perry explores A Course in Miracles ' radical redefinition of justice—not as punishment, but as love itself. In a world where justice is seen as people getting what they deserve for what they do, the Course teaches th…
- Understanding Forgiveness: Common Questions Answered
In this special Q&A episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles, Robert and Emily Perry dive into the central teaching of the Course—forgiveness—and answer your questions about how to truly live it. What does the Course say about forgiveness…
- Changing Our Frame From Fear to Love (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this message, Emily Perry explores the hidden "frame of reference" we each bring to everything we see—and how A Course in Miracles invites us to shift from the ego's frame of distortion to the Holy Spirit's frame of love. Drawing on sto…
- Does ACIM Want Us to Save the World?
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert and Emily Perry explore one of the most misunderstood themes in the Course: our role in the world's healing. While the Course teaches that form is an illusion, it also affirms that…
- The Wisdom of Joyful Resistance (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
What does it mean to choose joy in a world that feels anything but joyful? In this Sunday Gathering message, Emily Perry explores the practice of claiming joy not as escapism, but as a spiritual act of defiance against fear, suffering, and…
- What is the Holy Spirit?
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles podcast, Robert & Emily Perry dive into one of the Course's most essential—and most misunderstood—figures: the Holy Spirit. You will learn: Who is the Holy Spirit? What is His relationship…
- The Resurrection of the World: Collective Awakening in A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In A Course in Miracles , Jesus invites us to think beyond his personal resurrection and even beyond our own — to a third and even greater vision: the resurrection of the entire world. In this message from a Sunday Gathering, Emily Perry e…
- Palm Sunday: Lessons from A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week—a time that many of us remember with tradition and reverence. In the Gospel story, Jesus enters Jerusalem to shouts of "Hosanna!" as palm branches are laid at his feet. But A Course in Miracles…
- Holding Yourself Aloof from the Path (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Have you ever felt like you're standing at a distance from your spiritual path—disengaged, resigned, or quietly doubting whether you're really up to the task? In this Sunday Gathering sermon, Robert Perry explores one of the most beloved p…
- What Do We Do With Our Anger? (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In a world that is increasingly consumed by fear, injustice, and division, many of us are left asking: What do we do with our anger? In this sermon from a recent Sunday Gathering, Emily Perry draws inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr.'s…
- Staying Sane in a World Gone Mad
In this episode of Exploring A Course in Miracles , Robert & Emily Perry dive into the question so many of us are asking: How do we stay spiritually grounded in a world that feels increasingly unhinged? Drawing from Course teachings, Rober…
- What Does ACIM Say About the Bible?
For many spiritual seekers, A Course in Miracles and the Bible seem like two completely different paths. And yet, the Course references the Bible more than anything else—with nearly 900 biblical quotes and allusions throughout its 2,000 pa…
- Above All Else, I Want to See (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this episode, Emily Perry explores the theme of Workbook Lesson 27 from A Course in Miracles : "Above all else I want to see." [CE W-27:1] This lesson invites us to embrace a shift in perception, emphasizing the importance of seeing the…
- What We Learned from the 28-Day Relationship Challenge
In this episode, Emily and Robert Perry from the Circle of Atonement reflect on what they learned from their recent 28-Day Relationship Challenge. This challenge, hosted for the members of the Circle's Course Companions community, focused…
- Life Together: ACIM Perspective on Spiritual Community (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
In this sermon, Emily Perry explores the idea of spiritual community through the lens of A Course in Miracles . Drawing parallels with Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together , Emily covers key teachings on spiritual love versus human love, em…