Samuel Stufflebeam and John Brown – Abolitionists
I am finishing the final edits on a book I've written dealing with St Paul as a former Slave. I've published an article on the topic for Christianity Today earlier this year, appearing as the front page featured story. Over the last few days, b ...
Gidengelmez – The Land of No Return
This is a land in which it is forbidden to hike. We were stopped by an officer of the Turkish National Park service who told us not to enter the area. The terrain makes it impossible to negotiate a trail through these mountains and those who have tried h ...
Alacin Fortress
Known today as Alacin Monastery, this structure was not a monastery, but rather a fortress. In the mountains of northern Galatia, the fortress was tucked away in a valley beside the Pazar River, guarding passage to Ancyra (Ankara). The fortress is dated ...
The Montanists and Pepuza
Pepuza From the middle of the second century, the Phrygian settlement at Pepuza was the centerpiece of the Montanist Christian movement. Pepuza was thought to be the New Jerusalem, the place where it was believed that the coming kingdom would arrive. ...
Council of Nicaea – 1700 Years – AD 325-2025
Celebrations are planned revolving around the discovery of the now submerged basilica – probably the place where the council met. Read all about it in my book: The Underwater Basilica of Nicaea: Archaeology in the Birthplace of Christian Theology. The vo ...
The Gamble
We gamble with time, and we always lose. Time holds all the cards. Time does not need to cheat to win. But it cheats, nonetheless. Time cheats us in our relationships. It cheats us with our spiritual growth. It cheats us with lost opportunities. I wis ...
