Blogs from Turkey – 2021

April 11 – Flying with a Whisker Pole April 18 – Alien, trying to be Resident April 24 – The Big Ramadan Bang May 1 – Privilege and Pouting May 8 – Marina Lockdown – The Five People You Meet in “Heaven” May 22 – Blue Creation  

In Port with Paul and other Renegades

What an intense week this has been! I will mention two reasons why. 1 – The US presidential elections It was pitch dark at 5:30 on Wednesday morning as I scrambled out of my bunk and logged on to CNN (Turkey is 7 hours ahead of EST). For the next three hours I followed, in …

Waiting and Celebrating in Ports of Paul

Last week Janet and I celebrated our 40th. Like almost all of the 39 previous celebrations, we celebrated far from the place we were married. The journey away from Oregon and our closest friends/family began on our honeymoon and has never really stopped.  Every year since we’ve been married we have celebrated our anniversary in …

With Paul in Religious Ports

Blog 7 Just this week I received the exciting news from Dr. Mark Wilson that another ancient Jewish synagogue, only the fourth one in all of Turkey, has been identified by the archeologists working in Limyra. While Paul in the Acts story, almost always goes first to the Jewish synagogue in the cities he visits, …