Spiritual warfare

Scientists fear that a huge meteorite may fall from the sky and cause destruction on the earth. Some of them also speculate that aliens are likely to visit the earth soon. On the other hand, religious leaders are worried about end times as predicted in spiritual books. All these threaten the life of human beings on earth. However, what such groups do not realize is that human beings pose a greater risk to themselves as compared to the dangers speculated above. Human beings are continuously…

experiences of consolation and desolation. Dirks says that “even though the discernment of spirits seems to be an obvious pathway for any believer to attend to, most people fail to process these inner leanings. In Protestant evangelicalism, most spiritual formation stays focused in the realm of thought, information and then behaviour. Little or no consideration is given to the subjective realm.” I know there are lots of books on discernment of spirits and the importance of consolation and…

The active, written, discursive pursuit of the incomprehensible established in Rahner’s writing acts as a form of spirituality. In this way, self-reflexivity grounded in tradition develops as spiritual theology. Evident in Ronald Modras’ Ignatian Humanism: A Dynamic Spirituality for the 21st Century, Patrick Byrne’s “The Passionateness of Being: The Legacy of Bernard Lonergan”, and Bernard Lonergan’s “Method in Theology” and “Healing and Creating in History”, I will focus on how…

In 1983, the Cold War was in a heightened stated. Early in the year, Ronald Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech as justification for deploying NATO nuclear-armed missiles. The SDI or “Star Wars” plan was a sign of heightening tensions between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact ones. Other events, like the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines 007, Massive Nuclear Protests in Europe and the Able Archer exercises, were further signs of rising Cold War tensions. It was in this atmosphere that…

The Things they carried O’Brien’s story depicts a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War. The soldiers carry equipment, rations, weapons and personal items with them. Some of those items are a necessity such as the P-38 can openers, heat tabs, dog tags, ammunition, C-rations, guns and cigarettes. These are physical objects with a real measurable weight. O’Brien narrates the events and paints a picture of the burdens we do not see. Those invisible burdens the characters carry, are the…

Codenamed the “Manhattan Project,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 was the single-biggest military construction project in history (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). Responsible for approximately 200,000 casualties, the atomic bomb left a path of total destruction and devastation in these two major Japanese cities (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). It was the only time nuclear weapons had been used on civilization, which gave us a true idea of what the effects…

Nuclear weapons have come into existence within the last decade. They have changed the way wars are fought as they could lead to the total extermination of humanity. These weapons can lead to mutual destruction of nations, which really have caused humans to reevaluate the way they conduct foreign affairs. Eric Schlosser’s article “Today’s nuclear dilemma” is about the nuclear weapons that countries control and what should be done with them. Schlosser argues that the current nuclear weapons…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…

Although the novel is written in the third person omniscient, the beginning of the novel is described in a childish manner, as if the audience is experiencing and observing things through Rosemary’s lens. Thus, the French Riviera is seen with beauty but with naiviety. The illustration of the Riviera is vividly romantic and stunning. Color imagery is dominant in the opening lines of the novel. Among all the colors used to paint the setting of the novel, different hues of pinks and red come out.…

specialized unit would give the forward U.S. forces the same capabilities as the enemies on the battlefield. A Gas Service was created by The War Department June 2, 1918. The name was promptly changed to the Chemical Warfare Service to better exemplify what this unit really did. The Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) went to work immediately. The first Gas Regiment was formed and fought in its’ first campaign Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel. In the early 1920’s the U.S. Army was within a heartbeat…