Healing from Grief and Loss with A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles
Release Date: 01/19/2026
True Empathy in a Wounded World
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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 true empathy—a way of relating that does not join in pain but instead recognizes and strengthens the truth in one another. True empathy invites us to step aside and allow the Holy Spirit to...
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Love Without Sacrifice: Releasing Others from Our Demands
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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 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 another—but according to the Course, this pattern can lead to resentment, guilt, hidden anger, and a cycle that keeps both people trapped. Together, Emily and Robert unpack: How we unconsciously equate...
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Choosing Love in Violent Times (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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 forth a new world grounded in courage, spiritual maturity, and love. We hope you’ll plan to join us for our next Sunday Gathering. Access is included with...
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Healing from Grief and Loss with A Course in Miracles (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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 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 new reality, and the Course’s radical idea that grief arises not from loss itself but from how loss is interpreted. If you are grieving, walking alongside...
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Separation of Church and Hate with John Fugelsang
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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, *. John has spent years unpacking how the teachings of Jesus have been distorted by Christian nationalism—and why reclaiming Jesus’ message of love, justice, and human dignity is more urgent than ever. Along the way, there is a reflection on the surprising overlap between John’s biblical insights and the message of A Course in Miracles—especially the emphasis...
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Accept the Holy Instant as This Year Is Born (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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, this talk reframes Christmas and the New Year as the “time of Christ”—a time not only for reflection, but for profound inner change. At the heart of this change is a radical idea: that freedom...
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Jesus’s First Instructions on How to Live A Course in Miracles
Exploring 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 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,” and in the weeks immediately afterward, Jesus gave direct guidance. He described what to do, how to approach this path, and how to live it—before the Course even fully...
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Bonus: “Make This Year Different”: ACIM Teachings on the New Year
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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. ✨ Continue the Journey with If this teaching resonated and you feel called to truly live A Course in Miracles in the new year, we invite you to join . is our guided membership...
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Living A Course in Miracles in 2026
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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—but most of us don’t realize how practical it truly is, or how much power is hidden in doing what it asks. If you’ve ever thought, “If I really applied myself, I know I could live this...
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The Gratitude ACIM Calls Us To (Sunday Gathering Sermon)
Exploring A Course in Miracles
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 and the powerful list of promises in , Emily examines why our usual forms of gratitude are so fragile, and how a deeper, steadier gratitude arises when we recognize our true identity, God’s constant love, the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and the shared holiness of everyone we meet. This message is an invitation...
info_outlineIn 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 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 new reality, and the Course’s radical idea that grief arises not from loss itself but from how loss is interpreted. If you are grieving, walking alongside someone who is, or simply seeking a deeper spiritual understanding of loss, this sermon offers a perspective rooted in the assurance that love is never truly lost.
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