I took this photo from the Piazzale Michelangelo in 1987. Bella Firenze! I left in Florence, Italy, several acres of my heart.
Photo of the week: Firenze, Italia
Greg Taylor
My wife, Jill, and I have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. We live in Broken Arrow and I preach for The Journey: a New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa (www.thejourneychurch.faith). I have a B.A. in Journalism and an M.Div. from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. Before coming to Tulsa, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, where I worked with The Zoe Group and Wineskins Magazine. From 1994-2001 we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where we worked with a church planting team, an experience that forever changed our lives. With Randy Harris, I co-authored Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount and you can learn about other books I've written at my web site, www.gregtaylor.org. My most recent book co-authored with Randy is Daring Faith: Meeting Jesus in the Book of John.
Greg,
My wife and 4 other couples have rented a villa in Tuscany (Arezzo) for 12 days. We leave on Sept. 1. First time there. Looking forward to it. What did you like about Florence (the art, etc)?
Dear Fred,
Let me give you an example. When I walked into the Academy Gallery (http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Galleria/Michelangelo/imagepages/image5.html), in which Michelangelo is housed, tears lept to my eyes, in the words of Fredrick Buechner, as if I’d been slapped across the face. The sacred history mixed with renaissance art is breathtaking and emotional and mindblowing.