I find that the longer I live in Italy, the more I slide toward the center when it comes to politics. I still maintain a strong conservative stripe, but I think my eyes have been opened a bit to seeing things from the other side.
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The Sunken Church
This blog follows the life, ministry and adventures of the Casey family. We were missionaries in Ancona, Italy from 2000 until 2011. We are now adventuring in the US of A, experimenting with running a business, growing a garden, raising a family and challenging the Church to break outside the box and adopt new forms to reach a new generation with the truth of the Gospel.
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About Me
- Jason Casey
- Born in Santiago, Chile I have grown up on the move - lived in some 15 different homes. I am a 'word' person - enjoying almost anything to do with books and literature. I love exploring God's great world and helping people find their place in it.
sunken
The story goes like this:
There once was a church down by the port in Ancona, Italy. With the passing of time, shaken by earthquakes and beaten by the winds, the foundations of the church crumbled and the church toppled into the sea. A friend of ours shared with us that she remembers, as a little girl, playing along the pier and seeing the remains of the church under the water. She remembers seeing the cross from the top of the church under the surface. She told us that some say that if the wind was strong enough and the waves choppy enough, you could even hear the bells...
The story leads to this question:
If we were to raise her out of the water, if we were to restore her completely to what she was originally intended to be...what would she look like? If we were to remove her from all the traditions that humankind has surrounded her with and drowned her in...who would she be?
3 comments:
brett told me about you guys coming up after the rally. we are so excited, we can hardly contain ourselves!
liberal... whatever! ;)
Hey there...
See, I understand what you mean. Of course I smoke joints and dont mind bad words and all.
But still, I dont belong to the progressist area, I dont like leftwing conformist idealistic whining which implies they're the best.
One example? Fascism, no one in Italy wants to go deep and be impartial about it.
I suppose they believe everyone was so stupid as to stay slaves for 33 years...No, I think we need to know the past better. And stop telling americans they're ignorant just because we walk our dogs amidst ruins.
The american people is way older than ours. As far as I know, we were born as a people on Jan. 10th 1954, the beginning of tv in Italy. (I know the date because my mother was born the same day...)
ciao!
Francesco
www.atopos.vivilastminute.it
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