Walking Where Paul Walked: Students Bring Scripture to Life in Greece
By Lydia Chapman
Senior Reporter
At 3 a.m. in Athens, a group of students boarded a plane half-awake and half-delirious, unaware their journey home would not be simple.
After days of filming at ancient ruins across Greece, their return involved missed connections, blizzard warnings in Chicago, a two-and-a-half-hour wait for luggage and a last-minute charter bus that carried them overnight back to campus. By the time they arrived at 8 a.m. Monday after break, exhaustion threatened to define the experience.
Instead, what lingers most is not the blizzard, but Corinth.
Over spring break, students from the history, religion and film departments traveled to Greece as part of a faculty-led academic research experience, or FLARE, an interdisciplinary course combining research, theol...