I see on Mr. Hewitt’s blog that he says the following:

Rev. Joel Thomas appears to be a liberal Christian from Canada, so for a completely different take on the proceedings, read his Bene Diction. Having gone into blogger gatherings organized by the political left on their assurance of fairness and welcome, I know how he feels.

Welcome! Bienvenue!

Rev. Joel Thomas is an American online friend from Oklahoma. I asked him to be my guest here. My posts prior to this event were received rather poorly.
I think having a US minister post at BDBO showed some fairness to my critics at GodBlogCon, and hopefully his writing has put to bed some erroneous assumptions made in prior comments here.
Joel was given a log in, we did not discuss what or how he was to blog.
As my guest he has had free rein.
An organizer was also asked to guest post to clear up misunderstandings, he respectfully declined.
I’m pleased Rev. Thomas agreed, it has been a joy having him write here at BDBO.

This is a Canadian blog, Rev. Thomas and I also guest post in Wales at connexions.