A CATHOLIC RETURNS TO ADVENTISM

Bill Cork, associate pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist church in Houston, Texas, is used to switching team jerseys. Bill has been SDA, Lutheran, Catholic, and SDA again over the years. Before his decision to return to the mother ship of his youth, he was Director of Young Adult & Campus Ministry for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston for nine years.

In April, he came back. He recounted his reasons for leaving Catholicism in his blog Oak Leaves.

Reactions from the Catholic blog community was mixed:

~ SDA To RC
~ CVSTOS FIDEI: Defending the Faith
~ Musings of a Pertinacious Papist
~ Dei Gratia

OLD FASHIONED TENT MEETING

Canadian writer/teacher Trudy Morgan-Cole blogs in Hypergraffiti about her relationship to her church's evangelistic crusades.

"...SDA evangelistic meetings go far beyond the standard Billy-Graham type confess-your-sins-and-accept-Jesus message, because the goal is not just to lead people to Jesus but also to introduce them to the doctrines of the Adventist church, which are far more logical than emotional. So along with a soft piano background of “Just As I Am” playing behind the altar call, you also get some rather detailed exposition about the meaning of the Greek word pneuma as it relates to the state of the dead, and how Constantine mandated Sunday as the day of worship — not at all standard tent-meeting fare." Read the whole posting.