Monday, February 11, 2008
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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?
8 comments:
Duh! It's bad WORD.
We say profanity. Expletives. Just kidding.
You know, I think I say bad WORD. Which doesn't make sense, really, because shouldn't the emphasis be on the adjective? What kind of a word...a BAD word. :) But I'm pretty sure I say, "That's a bad WORD."
Question: are these bad WORDS in Italian or English? MK's have bilingual potty mouths.
Better ask Mar-"cus".
totally BAD word. what is everyone talking about? we say words all the time, it's because they're BAD that we don't want them to say it.
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure it's "BAD word". And one of the guys agrees with me.
There are no bad WORDS, just bad PEOPLE. (I think that's in the Bible...)
髒話就好
Well, I have a very unpopular opinion on this... =oÞ
Neither is the correct option.
There's no such thing as a BAD word or a bad WORD. Words - the joining of certain sounds or letters - aren't inherently bad. If a euphemism is acceptable to say, then the meaning of the word can't bad either...
Words are only "bad" because someone told you they were. If no one imbued certain specific words with a "bad" meaning to you then you would never consider them bad or offensive. Stop the never ending circle... Don't tell anyone about "bad" words, and you will strip them of their "badness" so... if everyone does their part, after enough time, we'll live in a "bad word" free society. *wink*
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