ALt.worship -UK:USA

Adam Feldman has some helpful and -I think- largely true things to say about the differences between alt.worship in the USA and the UK. In 2001 when I was part of the small contingent of Brits at Lake Junaluska for Len Sweet's convention on church in pomo, we thought that a lot of what the USAmericans were presenting as 'alternative' worship was, in UK terms, not that alternative. Not that I'm getting hung up on labels here: simply that the US stuff was more mainstream stadium-rock style whereas we were 'presenting' more paricipatory and decentralized styles ...