Ignatian spirituality

My initial thoughts are as followed: how can these three things be a religion; Baseball, Coca Cola, and Rock & Roll? I can not wrap my mind around how they can be even considered a religion. My definition of religion is the free choice we have to subject ourselves and to live our life for God. What the religion of Baseball, Coca Cola and Rock & Roll all have in common is the belief in a symbol or symbols. In my thoughts they are lacking and missing the concept of God or even a higher being that…

The unsaid request Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known for his pen name Mark Twain was a realistic writer. He is one of the most celebrated American authors, who used his pen to depict social realism (New World Encyclopedia contributors). Mark Twain’s The War Prayer is one of the most controversial satires all this time. In the satire Mark Twain eloquently illuminate the shadows of our humanity, the feelings one doesn’t actually realize they have and his feelings on war. In The War Prayer, it…

Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams, details the struggle of Shannon, a tour guide and reverend, as he is stuck in crisis at a resort in Mexico. The tour group Shannon is leading at the time is unhappy with his inability to follow the itinerary and refuses to stay in the resort, which is run by Shannon’s friend Maxine. In his disturbed mental state, Shannon refuses to leave the resort, forcing the tour group to remain with him. When unexpected guests (Hannah and her grandfather Nonno)…

Synopsis: Creative Visualization – Shakti Gawain What do you want? A job promotion, different job, better boss or even to become a successful entrepreneur, a new romantic relationship, heightened self-confidence, motivation and so on? What do you want? Get it! That the Source wants you to have all the goodness you want and deserve is the premise of Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. This isn’t a book to just read and stick on the shelf to gather dust. Creative Visualization is a book to…

The relevance that psychology has for religion is one of a strong overlapping nature. This relationship should be recognized and defined by yin yang type balance. Meaning that psychology and religion both having characteristics that define themselves uniquely, while being able to over lap and create a sense of co-balance with one another. Additionally, this co-balance allows for both areas to be express and studied on a more in depth level than what would be exposed if examined separately.…

The effective motivational interviewing techniques that were used in the individual counseling session with Hampton included: open-ended question, simple reflection, summarizing, and complex reflection. By utilizing open-ended questions this writer is able to obtain more information from Hampton about his issue. The issue that Hampton wanted to discuss involved his ambivalence with his Baptist Church. This writer began the individual counseling with Hampton by inviting him to share about his…

Hawkins & Clinton, (2015) argue about Christian counseling, mental health care and also the issue of psychotherapy. More so, this book talks of the diverging Christian counseling programs which are based on biblical teachings. This knowledge has been seen to help people in today's society making them be in a position to face life even after the hurtful experiences in life. Biblical explanations tend to pose a challenge to human being making them optimistic in facing life. Here is the need for…

Norbert’s wife, Lydia, came to church last month. She had been asking her boys what the sermons were about! Lydia told them she should be going to church too! Declan and I actually witnessed to her first and she is the one that told us to call to her husband. Please pray for her salvation. Also, please pray that Norbert will be baptized soon! Please pray for the salvation of David and Rose and their two daughters . They come to church most Sundays. They are a Hungarian family and they will only…

Relationship between religions and medicine As a strong driving force in ancient world, religion was playing a large part during the development of medicine in Greece and Rome. During the era of Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest known surgical papyrus in about 2000- 1600 BCE, the worship of gods was already affecting the medicine directly. As stated in case nine of the papyrus, while seeing a patient with an open trauma on forehead, specific incantations were called when applying specific recipe…

“Close your eyes, and imagine a picture of a cat. Do you see that cat? I bet you did, but the question is, if your eyes are closed who actually saw that cat? Your spirit did, of course, because you are a spirit.” When the preacher said this, I was appalled due to the fact that as I was growing up I was taught that our spirit can leave us, that it is not a part of us all the time. But hey, I had to keep an open mind, I could not judge. As you read this and try to comprehend all that I am trying…