ALTERNATIVE CHRISTIANITY

I Read “A Course in Miracles” So You Don’t Have To

Love really does make the world go round

Charles Bastille
Backyard Church
Published in
15 min readSep 30, 2024

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Photo of a personal copy of the book, A Course In Miracles, with mutliple stick tabs throughout
Wow, look at all those stickies! There must be some good stuff in there! Photo by author

Writing a book review of a book written by God is a bit intimidating.

According to the Foundation for Inner Peace, the publishers of A Course in Miracles, that’s what I’m doing. The 700-page book (very small font), they say, was channelled by Jesus Christ.

It’s easy to scoff at such a notion, especially during our cynical, modern times. Western history is full of weird religious cults and bizarre takes on Christianity. It would be perfectly normal to drop A Course in Miracles into that bucket.

I first took notice of A Course in Miracles a long time ago, during the Bill Clinton presidency, when its chief proponent, Marianne Williamson, was said to be Clinton’s spiritual advisor. My memory doesn’t serve me well enough to recall if that was before or after Clinton’s very public battle and bottoming out with his sexual addiction that climaxed (sorry) with lurid rumors of interesting ways to use cigars in the Oval Office.

Clinton gets a lot of criticism for his treatment of his wife, but I haven’t heard about sexual dalliances beyond those days, and between that and the vegetarian diet that trimmed a lot of body fat from his…

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Charles Bastille
Backyard Church

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