I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.
My response is that I love the church.
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.