Before studying Theology , I graduated as an IT expert at a technical industrial institute in Genoa and then undertook – for just one year – the IT curriculum at the University of Genoa . However , having an analytical and reflective nature , as many have told me since childhood , at a certain point I started to ask myself if I really wanted to spend the rest of my existence communicating with artificial intelligence . You can give commands to a machine made of circuits and it follows them . It has capabilities superior to those of humans and in a certain sense it is a living micro-organism , but it still remains a machine ; at the end of the day , you click a button
Maliq Meda . and it turns off and the next day it starts all over again . With people it ’ s not the same ; in fact it is exactly the opposite . They are unpredictable , often unreliable and there is always a problem to solve and deal with . These human characteristics , like others , take shape and life in relationships as a place to discover ourselves , others and God . The place in which I learned , also driven by necessity , to build bonds and bridges despite and through differences . And I believe that this is one of those gifts that the Lord gives us . I believe that the vocation to which I feel called also comes from this , and from wanting to put this – something I consider to be my gift – to service . After attending the Iglesia for about three years , I felt the need to undertake studies in Theology with a view to the pastorate , not least because the Community and pastors had recognised in me the characteristics and gifts required to become a minister of the Gospel within the Waldensian and Methodist Churches , a vocation that at the same time gave voice to my personal search for faith . The study of Theology allowed me to delve deeper from different perspectives into something that was changing me , changing the way I saw life , others and my world , as well as satisfying my intellectual curiosity . The path in the Faculty contributed to the maturation of my vocation and faith : as someone once told me , it helped me to deconstruct and reconstruct it – something very important for my personal as well as academic training . I can define my vocation of faith as a conversion that I experienced not so much in the transition from Islam to Christianity , but as an existential change given by the meeting of two different paths : that of my personal research and that of the Spirit that blows where he wants . This meant that the Gospel that
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