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- Title: Practice of Immersion in the Context (Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
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"Things aren't the way they used to be" is a common phrase for a continually changing life. The reality we exist in today is not the same reality asten years ago, ten months ago, or even ten hours ago. We live in a world of continual, and somewhat unpredictable, change. Take rural Iowa, for example. Just a few decades ago, towns like Storm Lake and Postville were populated by primarily Northern European descendants. Today one may find on their streets Buddhist monks on their way to temple, orthodox Jews preparing for Sabbath, Laotian refugees, and Somali workers. (1) A landscape that seems constant with cornfields and siios is in fact constantly changing. Postville, a small town with a population of less than 2500 people, found itself changing over time, then drastically overnight. On May 12, 2008, the local Agriprocessors plantwas raided by agents from Immigration and Custom Enforcement. In a period of twenty-four hours, 20 percent of the towns population had been apprehended. (2) The next day half of the school system's students (approximately 600) were absent because their parents had been arrested or were in hiding. (3)