The Decay of the Modern Church

Eliot on the snakes and dogs who inhabit our houses of worship

Photo by Gary Walker-Jones on Unsplash

In this next section of our study of T.S. Eliot’s “Choruses from The Rock” (see parts one, two, three, four, five, and six), we’re going to look at a stanza that focuses specifically on the Church and less on the City. Continuing the allusion to the story of Nehemiah, Eliot will consider the particular challenges fa…