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April 2011

April 26, 2011
At last Lent is over and we are in the season of Easter. For me,...
April 18, 2011
So once again we come to Holy Week, the days leading up to Easter. To...
April 15, 2011
While the holy site I wrote about last, the National Museum of Mexican Art, is...
April 11, 2011
The Holy Rover has been in Chicago for a few days at a meeting of...

March 2011

March 31, 2011
Everyday love corners me somewhere and surrounds me with peace without my having to look...
March 30, 2011
Today’s post is also my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service. You can read...
March 29, 2011
First, let me make it clear that today’s post does not advocate spying on your...
March 25, 2011
   If you were following this blog last summer, you may remember that my husband...
March 23, 2011
Today I want to tell you about a wonderful movie that I recently saw: Temple...
March 22, 2011
By now the situation in Japan has a familiar ring, doesn’t it? The images of...
March 08, 2011
I'm resurrecting what I said last year on Ash Wednesday, as I hope the sentiments...
March 07, 2011
Some of you, perhaps, have heard of Brian McLaren, an author, former pastor, activist, and...
March 01, 2011
At last we come to the end of the Holy Rover’s travels in Turkey. Thank...

February 2011

February 28, 2011
  Today's post is also my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service. You can...
February 24, 2011
No ancient ruins or beautiful holy sites today, for this post is for cat lovers...
February 23, 2011
I said yesterday that Zeus had fled the acropolis at Pergamum, but I think one...
February 22, 2011
If you’re wondering if the Holy Rover is ever going to come back from Turkey,...
February 21, 2011
Compared with the grandeur of Ephesus, the ruins of the Basilica of St. John are...
February 18, 2011
While the list of former residents of Ephesus reads like a Who’s Who of the...
February 17, 2011
In a way I cheated by telling you about the ruins of the Temple of...
February 11, 2011
After lingering many days in Istanbul, it’s time for us to travel to Ephesus. In...
February 09, 2011
When the theologian, philosopher, and statesman Theodore Metochites commissioned the interior decoration of the Church...
February 08, 2011
Following up on yesterday’s post on the Whirling Dervishes, I want to tell you about a...
February 07, 2011
From John L. Stoddard's travel lecture on Istanbul: An old man [stands] motionless, surrounded by...
February 03, 2011
There are few words in Turkish history that carry more evocative weight than harem.  In...
February 01, 2011
  As if Hagia Sophia isn’t enough splendor for one city, Seraglio Point in Istanbul...

January 2011

January 31, 2011
Today, let me take a break from blogging about Turkey to say a few words...
January 28, 2011
I wrote yesterday that my memory of Hagia Sophia is suffused with the glow of burnished...
January 27, 2011
Imagine that you are an ordinary person in the sixth century, someone who lives in...
January 26, 2011
I know I had promised you that we would return to Turkey today, but I can't...
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