By now all of our faithful readers will think that this is certainly a lifeless blog — and tradition — that we are discussing. I thought that by this time one of our errant elders would have posted something to jump start this blog. Keith was last talking about how his theological language was formed in part by tradition. For most of our members who are not Ph.D. students in theology, they may be interested to know how tradition shapes, for good and ill, our practice. For the average church-goer in all denominations, traditional practices are one of the strongest forms of transmitting the theological concepts Keith was talking about. Even those who claim not to rely on tradition do. We, for example, always collect an offering in the course of our Sunday morning service. Why? I could give other examples, but the real question is: what are the “rules” for relying on traditional practices? Are there any?

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