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Last day and the best cup of Turkish coffee.
3 days ago







Cave churches in Cappadocia where some of the oldest monastic communities lived. Also the homes of the Cappadocian fathers and mothers.
3 days ago






People think if the ancient world as white marble but most of the statues and buildings we see would have been brightly painted. On some of these walls and reliefs you can still see the original colors. The ancient Roman world would probably have been gaudy to our tastes.
6 days ago




More from Istanbul. Water cisterns, Constantine’s column, and the blue mosque.
6 days ago





Ancient Nicaea where the first church council was held in 325. We were there on the 1700s anniversary of Constantine’s arrival and the beginning of deliberations.
6 days ago




We were visiting the church at the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and he found out we were a group of Protestant scholars going to Nicaea for the anniversary and invited us into his residence to greet us. He spoke and gave us all crosses. Not on your typical Istanbul itinerary.
1 week ago







Spent the day in Istanbul. On tomorrow to Nicaea.
1 week ago






A few more sites in Turkey. Today, I head to Istanbul.
2 weeks ago










I’m spending this week with a group of professors touring the sites of the seven churches of revelation in modern Turkey. I’ve learned a ton and been amazed by the scale and complexity of these Roman cities.
2 weeks ago








Finished up in Paris. Paris is always hard to beat.
3 weeks ago