{"id":329,"date":"2017-12-03T20:57:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=329"},"modified":"2025-08-09T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:55:07","slug":"maggie-mccausland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Maggie McCausland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encountering the Global Church<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studying abroad provides the opportunity to learn and experience culture in a new way. On the Italy summer abroad trip, I encountered the significance of experiencing history in its context and interacting with it rather than simply learning it. In this new environment, I came face to face with the global nature of the Christian Church on both a current and historical scale. Furthermore, within the coursework pertaining to the Renaissance era that we covered throughout the trip, my mind was opened to the history of the church as we looked more in depth at the positive and negative realities of the church at this time. I was challenged to contemplate stereotypes and biases that I took in to the experience and allow the reality of what I encountered to alter my perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GLST 295, Study Abroad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lauren Riley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banquet Room, <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Y1LWq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poster #6<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 &#8211; 3 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ewWtaI0atW6gSZbSl51MXlKBHpgJci9NGmuY2PVLhPE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encountering the Global Church Studying abroad provides the opportunity to learn and experience culture in a new way. On the Italy summer abroad trip, I encountered the significance of experiencing history in its context and interacting with it rather than simply learning it. In this new environment, I came face to face with the global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maggie McCausland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1058,17,655,792,769,172],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2017","tag-glst","tag-glst-295","tag-riley-l","tag-mccausland-m","tag-poster-fall-17","tag-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}