Back from St. Louis and returning to normal, daily life again. It's been a very busy few days.

I had the opportunity to have lunch yesterday with R.T. Kendall, who retired last year as the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London (the church that Dr. D. Martin Lloyd-Jones pastored for 30 years) after serving there for 25 years. He's a fascinating man with one foot in the Reformed community and the other foot in the charismatic world. Though his opinions are largely anathema to the "truly Reformed," they cannot be easily shrugged off--there is enough theological heft behind them that they must at least be dealt with.

He recently appeared on "Focus on the Family" for three days with Dr. Dobson, an appearance which occasioned a bit of disdain amongst my pals at A Better Country. I know that there are a number of things on which I disagree (currently) with Dr. Kendall. But I also know this: this is no inbred TBN goofball with a pompadour hairdo, as we so often caricature all the charismatics. His viewpoint comes with some real scholarship behind it, and deserves to be addressed as such.

He and his family are also incidentally very lovely people who were great company at the Indian (as in India, as opposed to Native American) restaurant they were dying to go to. Apparently after 30-something years of bland English food, a little curry really hits the spot.