I have been invited to be a contributor on one of the progressive Adventist blogs out there in the Adventist blogosphere - Re-inventing the Adventist Wheel.

The blog is Adventist, and I am Catholic, and have never been Adventist.  Between this blog and my website, I deal with a lot of issues relating to Adventism from a Catholic perspective, and mostly from a defensive apologetics angle.

Re-inventing the Adventist Wheel is not the same brand of Adventism that puts up billboards claiming that the pope is the Beast of Revelation - the form of Adventism I first came across, that resulted in me wanting to publically defend my faith.  Progressive Adventism has moved beyond the focus on the Beast and the Pope and Mary and the like, and focusses on their experience of the Gospel.

Since the Gospel is shared by both sides, this is an opportunity for both sides to discover what they really have in common, and to discover what aspects of the other side can legitimately be accepted by each tradition, and to clarify issues of misunderstanding that is all too common.  It's like a breath of fresh air for me - a discussion instead of a continuous battle against misconceptions.

God's visible grace is the title of my first post there, and this is the post by Marcel introducing me.

Dr Francis Beckwith, current president of the Evangelical Theological Society, has converted back to Catholicisim.

Two worthwhile blog posts on this:
Jimmy Akin's blog
Dave Armstrong's blog ...

This is the sickest story I've heard for a long time.  Found via Bill Cork's blog.  The original here in 5 pages, and comments; the printable version here in 1 page.

Moral of the story: Money determines the survival of the fittest.