This week I took my long anticipated trip to south-eastern Turkey. Because Syria is not an option for the EMU Middle East cross-cultural study program this spring, we decided to bring the EMU students to the area of Turkey just north of the Syrian border. I was there to check out the current situation on …
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#5 If a tourist visits Turkey and includes an archeological site it most likely will be Ephesus, the fabulous ruins of an incredibly wealthy and powerful city familiar to anyone with some biblical knowledge. Ephesus is so popular that there are actual foot-traffic jams on the main street during the summer. The ports of ancient …
#4 I promised to share why the section of coastline in the area I am in between Antalya to the northeast and Bodrum to the west, is famous. Besides being the most beautiful coastline of Turkey, there are two other reasons for its fame: shipwrecks and pirates. These represent two distinct hazards Paul faced when …
Blog 3 The sun rose at precisely 6:33 am this morning. While the temperatures are still close to 100 in the day, at night now, its getting cooler. So cool in fact, that when I roll out of my bunk just before sunrise, it is downright chilly. These cool, windless mornings are the ideal times …
Paul spent years in Roman prisons. I am in a roamin’ prison, a sailboat that has such luxuries like fans to keep to keep cool, running water, a little galley and refrigerator, and best of all, no Roman soldier sharing the cramped space. As part of my quest to live in the world of Paul …