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We were just responding to the mandate of Queen Marie Antoinette.  That other dude is Mark Stevens a Aussie minister who lives in a parallel universe called Happy Valley. They’d all be happy if they got to eat the chocolate cherry cake his wife Becky made.    BW3

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I’ve just returned from a challenging three week lecture and preaching stint in Australia and near the end I was able to go see an art exhibition at the gallery in Sydney entitled Victorian Visions, thanks to friends Andrea and Dean Moore.  Naturally I was most interested in the Biblical images in the gallery. Pictures…

Nestled well up in the mountains north of Antalya and south of Psidian Antioch is the ancient city of Sagalassos, a spectacular archaeological site we visited on the last day of our tour. Here on the mountains Alexander the Great defeated the proud citizens of this place, and they may have built a monument to…

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The last place Paul put into port in Turkey before he headed to Jerusalem on his 3rd missionary journey was Patara (see Acts 21.1).  It is an enormous archaeological site at which there is now much restoration work. Among other things the site includes a light house ruin (see below), today called St, Paul’s lighthouse,…

There are many wonderful little fishing villages on the south coast of Turkey, many of which you can only really visit by boat.  Kas (pronounced Kash) is one such place, being the site of the ancient Greek city named Antiphellus. We see here the same sort of monumental sarcophagii we have seen elsewhere, and much more, including…

CLERGY WHO HAVE LOST THEIR FAITH      While I can feel sympathy for clergy who have lost their faith, I do have a few questions for them, more for their professors in seminary, a handful for Daniel Dennett, and a couple of very basic ones for Solange de Santis.  It was the journalist, de Santis,…

One of our last stops on the Gullet boat tour was the impressive little town of Demre, also basically inaccessible except by water. This was another Greek fishing village, that has some fortifications from the Ottoman period, and more interestingly, ancient Lycian and Greek tombs, and the oldest olive trees in all of Turkey.

Hard by the Isthmus is the Basilopoulos grocery story, which in itself is worth a visit on the way to the ancient site.  The first two pictures below show the several story store, which in fact is more than a grocery store, it also has everything from clothes to toys, to tools on its upper…
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