worldview and perspective on Tradition

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely ha...

Many of us are aware that the Trinity is not specifically referred to in scripture, though it would eventually become accepted among all major branches of the Christian faith as an authentic interpret...

One of the gifts John Wesley left the church is the Quadrilateral. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral refers to the four ways we come to know something as true: Scripture (what the Bible teaches), tradition (...

It’s funny how sometimes members of the church can associate anything new with “heresy.” We often make the mistake of confusing technological innovations or scientific discoveries for changes to the g...

Don't take the fence down until you know the reason it was put up.