Rev. Dr. W. Benjamin Boswell | Mark 7:1-23 “Jesus challenged tradition because it was standing in opposition to the new kind of community he was building where there was no hierarchy of human value and where all people were included and empowered to practice the radical demands of scripture and care for the welfare of the weakest members of society.” “If our mission and vision is to be an inclusive community, then we will all have to make an inventory of or hearts, peer deep inside that perpetual factory of idols and garden of loves, and ask some tough questions, ‘What do we truly love? Are our hearts in the right place? Do we love God or do we love our traditions?'”