A soli deo friend just gave me a cd full of sermons by Alan Redpath. I’ve read the bio stuff on the internet, but I’m wondering if anyone can locate Redpath for me on any kind of doctrinal map. Since he preached at Moody Church, I am assuming he was generically evangelical. Any information to fill out the picture would be welcome.

If you are an IM reader, you may have read some of my notes on the various physical demonstrations of worship I saw at the conference this week. (“Spinning” especially.) What struck me is that the people who were involved in spinning, dancing, and other demonstrations were entirely female. (There was a guy who looked like Jesus headbanging, and some guys doing the usual charismatic things you can see anywhere.) Is there some significance to the fact that out of a crowd of 300 (?) the only ones participating in these kinds of actions were women? (Pirate: be nice.) I’m not trying to be sexist, but if you have read me, you know that I value the regulative principle because I believe all God’s people should be included in worship. Much of what I saw this weekend- in terms of worship responses- was divisive. Physically. I don’t want to stand up for an HOUR. My back hurts. At age 50, I am not going to do some of these responses.

That’s not a putdown. Just a fact. I experience it in RC churches that don’t exempt some people from kneeling, so it’s not just a college-age thing. But it is the bastard child of age grouped Christianity, and while I like the worship that “emerges” from the creativity of cultures, I am always put off by the divisiveness of many of those responses.