Hey from the middle of nowhere in Turkey, where I’m on a six-day press tour of the Seven Churches of Revelation — that is, cities and towns whose local churches were addressed by Jesus through St. John the Theologian in the opening chapters of the book of Revelation. We started in Smyrna (called Izmir today), went to the ruins of ancient Ephesus, which was dazzling, and spent most of yestdrday on the acropolis of Pergamum. We made a quick stop at the only church ruin in what was once Thyatira, then made our way to the hotel. Went to Sardis this morning, and then Philadelphia. Lunch now, and then to Laodicea, for whose second-century church Jesus had harsh words, delivered through St. John. We’re going to be in Myra on the Feast of St. Nicholas, that city’s famed bishop. Then back home....