Why the Church Should Critique the World
Even when it doesn't have practical solutions
At the end of T.S. Eliot’s essay, “The Idea of a Christian Society” is an appendix which includes an untitled shorter essay, originally broadcast in February 1937. In it Eliot says that the title of the talk ought to be “The Church’s business to interfere with the World.” Eliot understands how provocative this title …
