Ignatian spirituality

• Sanctification gap is a gap of knowledge, teaching, and practices of spiritual transformation between the real spiritual life and ideal spiritual life. The five typical responses to the sanctification gap are pretense, despair, programmatic and personal solutions, moral formation, and ministry activism. Pretense is pretending that one’s spiritual life is going smoothly, even though one feels the emptiness due to sanctification gap. Despair is the feeling that results from the sanctification…

As therapist expresses empathy with a client we are going behind the curtain of the client’s world. We are potentially seeing the opportunity for change and healing, while also seeing the dark corners of a client’s experiences and attitudes. This process can lead us into a state of understanding, or a state of judgment if we are not careful. We see Jesus expressing empathy throughout his ministry. However, Jesus had the ability to enter into someone’s thoughts without the other person knowing it…

King David understood the value of regular and faithful prayer to God. He realized that practicing this would keep his relationship with his Heavenly Father strong. New Testament believers have been afforded the luxury of being able to live according to Jesus’ example. Unlike King David of the Old Testament, New Testament believers have encouragement from both fellow believers in Christ and from Christ himself. The apostles showed in the book of Acts that they felt a healthy prayer life would…

Drastically different experiences develop drastically different views. This is epitomized when three highly-educated men from various backgrounds discuss an overarching counterseal theme of technology and religion. Tom Bartlett, Malcolm Gladwell and David Abrams all have stories to tell from their life experiences. Bartlett viewed religion as a way of life and, through religion, observed that hearts could be changed and made moral. Gladwell saw the world as corrupt, especially in 1900’s New York…

Substance Abuse Treatment: What is and Isn’t Working Substance abuse is common in America, and there are treatment options available. Treatments for substance abuse scale from professional counseling to 12-step programs. Most of these programs do not have outstanding success rates, considering not everyone can afford professional help. 12-step programs seem to be more common, with that in consideration there are downfalls to this way of treatment. Lack of funding, religion, socioeconomic…

Title: It’s graduation day and studying for the time being appears to have come to a close. Speeches and valedictories are done. Dinners are over. Caps are thrown. Nursing students can be seen leaving graduation as they head out onto Robie Street. For some, their first shifts will be within hours. Some will be assigned to the ER. Other students from the various faculties are seen pouring out onto the street. Diplomas held high, when the roaring sound of the crash is heard. Vehicles entangled,…

This article is an overview of Dan Cathy’s anti-equality views expressed to the public sector in the summer of 2012. Dan Cathy, the CEO of chick-fil-A delved into deep waters which costed him quite a bit. Through the decision he made to speak out on his own personal religious views, he learned a very important lesson. Leaders should always learn from their mistakes whether big or small and make better decisions in the future for themselves as well as for the others they are serving. After…

Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson spent the majority of her time isolated within the borders of her room in her father’s house, contemplating –among other things –the inevitability of death, human mortality, and her own spiritual faith in relation to these contemplations. The poetry of Emily Dickinson demonstrates her fascination with death and mortality –whether it was focused on her own or others’ –as well as her relationship with each throughout the waxing and waning of her own spiritual…

Throughout the works of literature read thus far, the concept of the quest comes to mind. This idea of searching for a greater good best describes the character’s journey we’ve learned about. Being that a quest can be described as a tedious search for something, it is generally viewed to be for some significant outcome, that benefits the fulfillment of the quester. During prehistoric events, this notion of fulfillment was based off of furthering mental, physical, and spiritual knowledge. For…

Sometimes, life falls apart. In these moments the options seem limited. Do you run away, do you stay and push through the problem, do you go on a spiritual journey? There are endless options to consider, but in a moment where life seems to be engulfing you, the only clear option is to follow your gut. In the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, that is exactly what she did when her marriage fell apart and life trapped her on her bathroom floor. Her gut told her to embark on a spiritual…