12-Day Pilgrimage
In less than a week I will be roaming the streets of Rome, Italy. It's a dream come true. I've always wanted to go to Italy and for the first time I have the honor of doing so. The neat thing about it is that I get to spend twelve days with my cohort friends from the Seminary that I just graduated from. These friends of mine have been with me, and I with them, for three years and this trip is sort of the "capstone"-if you will-to my education. The goal is mission-minded, cultural exegesis. We are to go, learn the culture, try to understand the culture, and experience life in a Post-Christendom era. It should be awesome.
With American Christendom collapsing (for which I'm glad in a lot of ways), the Church could learn a thing or two from Western Europe and its collapse of Christendom. While I'm thinking about it, read Mark Driscoll's response to the recent Newsweek article about this very issue (ironically, the article was published around Easter time...hmmm).Anyway, while I'm in Italy, I intend on doing some micro-blogging (not as micro as twitter of course) and posting some pictures. Hope you enjoy the journey as much as I will!
