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 ...
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 terr ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 rel ...
Fulbright Scholar Research – Nicea’s Underwater Basilica
Director Pascal Guerin and I are standing at the site of the submerged ancient basilica in Iznik (Nicea) during a break in filming. Pascal and his film crew we ...
Monuments of Rough Cilicia
The hinterland of Rough Cilicia is loaded with rock cut reliefs high up n the canyon walls, in the gorges and on the sides of cliffs. It is difficult to reach ...