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At the end of our time in Turkey, my friend Levent Oral arranged for us to do a boat trip around the south coast of Turkey, stopping here and there to see some ruins on several islands and a couple of inland sites as well.  Here below is the boat we sailed in…. We sailed…

The third archaeological thriller in the Art West series (of seven) has just come out, and is available from Amazon, and even more cheaply from www.wipfandstock.com.  I am challenging you fiction hounds out there to get a copy and put up a review on Amazon.  In this episode in the series we learn about discoveries…

          You can clobber your head by visiting the underground churches, but what is most important to realize is that they were part of a huge network of underground cities or dwelling and storage places. The churches were just one part of such a complex. In this post I am providing…

Sometime back I told you the story of an inflatable Catholic Church a priest was using on a beach to get Catholic beachcombers to come to Mass and take the sacrament, apparently with some success.  Below is a picture of said ‘church’—- Now, alert reader Craig Beard has sent me a CNN article about the…

Like many others, I thoroughly enjoyed ‘Blue like Jazz;  There is now a new book by Donald Miller  ‘Father Fiction’   Here is the cover—   There is a connection between Donald Miller and Don Piper, and it is a youth minister who helped save Miller’s soul— his name being ‘Gentiles’.  The story is found…

One of the more fascinating aspects of Capadoccia is of course the cave churches, and when I say cave churches,  you should not think primitive.  I mean elaborately carved, painted, decorated churches in caves. This practice of course began when the church had to go underground quite literally due to persecution but it continued thereafter…
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