by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Apr 5, 2016 | The Embrace
Sex and the Course: A Personal Perspective By Laina Orlando A major event gripped the social world in 2015—the sensational transgender transformation wherein Bruce Jenner died and was resurrected as Caitlyn Jenner. It reminded me of my own transformation through a...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 18, 2016 | The Embrace
To Give or to Receive? That is Love’s Question By Laurel Elstrom It was Valentine’s Day. My partner hadn’t met my expectations. I watched my own wounded reaction, knowing it was ridiculous and not helpful. Yet the recognition that I thought I had...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 2, 2016 | The Embrace
My Meeting with Mari By Celia Hales The year was 2004, three years after Mari Perron had published the first part of A Course of Love with New World Library. Like Mari, I was living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. And, like Mari, I was a seeker. My story about...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 22, 2016 | The Embrace
A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love — A Reflection By Douwe vanderZee It seems the controversy about the relationship between A Course of Love (ACOL) and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is gaining momentum. Numerous comments have been posted on Amazon, but...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 10, 2016 | The Embrace
A Cup of Tea — With Milk, Sugar, and the Spacious Self By Derek Neilson [Editor’s note: The “spacious Self” is an important element of Jesus’ message in A Course of Love, one he does not mention until the final part of the book, in The...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 22, 2016 | The Embrace
Exactly What I Needed By Barry Cosme On November 13, 2015, Barry Cosme, a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, posted the following review of A Course of Love on Amazon.com. He graciously gave permission for it to be reprinted here. This book (ACOL) was the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 7, 2016 | The Embrace
Dropping From a Tree Into the Arms of God By Douwe vanderZee For more than a decade, I regularly played with children. The term ‘original play’ was coined by Dr. O. Fred Donaldson, who discovered that what little children – and animals – do is...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 23, 2015 | The Embrace
The Greatest Leap of All By Mari Perron It was meaningful to me in 1998, as it still is now, that A Course of Love first began to come to me as the season of Advent began . . . the season that marks the Second Coming of Christ and the end of Ordinary Time. In the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 10, 2015 | The Embrace
Miracle of the Manger: Who’s There? By Paula Payne Hardin December 7, 2015 A new Christmas image just came to me. It was so unlike anything “I” would normally imagine, it was a shock. In fact it is affecting me to such an extent I can hardly type. I am...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Nov 24, 2015 | The Embrace
Elephants and Rhinos and Miracles—Oh, My! By Douwe vanderZee As I co-led a group of people in the iMfolozi Game Reserve, the oldest game reserve in Africa, a large bull elephant appeared straight in front of us, on the same path that we were on. Sipho, my fellow guide...
