Whoa, mc, you have your hands full! I have a very good friend who is in the Adventist community and she is a lovely person, but we don't talk religion per se...we talk about it within the context of our lives. She is from El Salvador, and when her brother was murdered (drug related) I went to his funeral - it was all in Spanish and was pretty out there for me (I don't speak Spanish, btw).

I identify as a Roman Catholic, but I am not sure that the RC Church would identify me that way! My beliefs are way outside the lines - that's just the worship community I feel comfortable in and have lived most of my life in. I just believe that God is waaaay too big for any one church. That makes it kind of difficult for me now working in a Catholic high school - I have a picture of a very punked-out pierced goth right out of hell guy on my door with a caption that says "Dare to be different." Don't think I haven't caught crap for that - the thing is, they haven't made me take it down, though I KNOW it annoys some people.

Anyhow, mc, good luck with your new gig. Let us know how it goes. I am very interested in the "meeting" of ideologies and how that all works out.

Do the good work, my brother!!!