Jaroslav Pelikan, an excellent Christian scholar and author of the five-volume series The Christian Tradition once wrote the following, Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Many people who are acquainted with me will often mistake me for a radical believer. They’ll hear my critiques of…
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Connection
People who see me as a “computer guy” often make the assumption I am of the opinion, “Old is bad.” They are inevitably surprised this is not the case. I love Tradition. I love the connection it gives me to the long history of God’s people gathering in community and experiencing the presence of the…
The Traditional Response
Holy Week is soon upon us, and with it will come the cacophony of voices crying, “It’s only a tradition!” This is, ironically, the tradition response if the non-traditional Christian the the idea of Holy Week. It used to bother me, as most if the Evangelical circles I walked in mocked the idea of a…
Traditional Values
I came up with this comic after a hospital visit today that left me heartbroken.
Tradition…..(music)…..TRADITION!
My friend Chris just wrote a blog entry on the current (well, ongoing) wrestling match that Mennonites are going through regarding their particular tradition. For decades, many Mennonites have toyed with the idea of going Evangelical™ saying that Anabaptist distinctives didn’t speak to our cultural setting. Chris, rightly I think, challenges this. You should read…
