“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.” -Jaroslav Pelikan
[UPDATE: link was broken, now fixed] I don't often directly link to other people's posts (this site is a personal place to give expression to my own ruminations). However, one of the reasons I keep the RSS feed on the home page is because of finding articulate gems like this one from Ed Stetzer: "The trap of Tradition". I found myself saying "Yes! My church has a measure of that." My church sits in a complex context of a multi-racial inner-city culture, and mostly seems to expect them to find us and come to love our tradition of expression - to take a time-trip with us to yesteryear. There are always a few who will do that, but therein lies the rub: "a few". Have a read: HERE
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Jacqui Vowles
22/4/2016 08:34:53 am
The link doesn't seem to be "connected". Wish it was....
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Hadassah
22/4/2016 08:41:26 am
Apologies ... fixed
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