Perhaps some of you have heard that the president of the Evangelical Theology Society, Frank Beckwith, has returned to the Roman church of which he was a part earlier in his life. It’s always sad to hear about a person turning his back on the pure and sweet Gospel to exchange it for the clouded and distorted version one finds in Rome, with whom we Lutherans have so much in common and yet, precisely to the extent we do, find our differences over the heart of the Gospel so serious and so painful. Dr. Gene Edward Veith has an excellent reflection on Beckwith’s departure.