Oh, goodness, it's a small world.

Also at "Right Reason" is a link to a WSJ article by the nephew of Thomas Howard (Elizabeth Elliott's brother) on Beckwith's "conversion." The article itself isn't as interesting as the well-known names involved.

Yeah, evangelicalism can be a remarkably small movement at times. That's one of my problems with it, actually, it's too inbred:

Mr. Howard was among the first of what has become a steady stream of evangelical converts to Catholicism in the past 20 years. Three who achieved prominence after their conversions were the singer John Michael Talbot, now the No. 1 Catholic recording artist, Scott Hahn, a best-selling Catholic author, and Joshua Hochschild, a professor at Wheaton fired for his conversion in 2006.

These Catholics are not generally in sympathy with the theologically liberal wing of the American Catholic Church but are enthusiastic supporters of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI's emphasis on orthodox teaching and practice. In short, they have more in common theologically with evangelicals than with liberal Catholics, and evangelicals themselves, in many respects, have more in common with traditional Catholics than with mainline Protestants.