Enjoy these musings from around the Adventist blogosphere. Sure beats traditional Sabbath "lay activities"!

Nomad is Chantel Davies' blog. Davies is a researcher in the UK who fostered a recycling and composting program in her Adventist congregation. Recently she considered the newsy matter of Anne Rice's renunciation of Christianity. She writes:

Over the last thirty days, (according to Google Analytics) this site has received:

• 16,368 "absolute unique visitors,"
• 31,759 visits,
• and over 82,000 page views.

That puts us at about 80% growth in visitors, 116% growth in visits and 41% growth in pageviews from the same time last year.

Thank you for reading!

And yes, nothing makes us (and many of our readers) happier than seeing a new name in the "Comment" scroll.

The point here at Spectrum is an open door — the open door of dialogue.

The problem is that there are different kinds of open. The kind Spectrum was made for is the kind where every voice has a right to be heard. The kind it was not made for is the kind where people can say whatever they want, however they want to.

Why can't we have both? you ask. Well... because the openness of the latter kind tends to close the door on the former kind.

Here are three recent members in the Adventist blogoshere. I think that what makes these bloggers especially interesting is the very personal focus of their writing. They write from experience.

1. Trinidad. Adventist. Gay?

Twenty-something. Male. Trinidadian. Have same-sex attractions. Love God. Here to help. Please understand that because Trinidad and Tobago is such a small place I can't be too descriptive; especially since I am a Seventh-Day Adventist. They all know one another!

Trinidad. Adventist. Gay?

Recently several bloggers and regulars here at Spectrum have been interviewed for a new Adventist television series called intersections.