the tradition? Am I giving them a textbook reason for not doing that anymore? I answered these questions by telling myself, “But we have now a different audience, a different group of people sitting before the pulpit.” But it has always been that way. In our time we are witnessing the death of the traditionalists, who were born in the 1920s. They are dying off by the thousands, about all gone. Only a few of them show up on Sunday. The baby boomers, those who were born in the 1940s with their idealism