Is the Church of England in a Death Spiral?
By Brad Miner The Anglo-American poet, T.S. Eliot (born in St. Louis), wrote "The Hollow Men" in 1925. The poem concludes with this haunting quatrain: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. The poem appeared two years before Eliot joined the Church of England. (He had grown up in Unitarianism.) Eliot had a kind of conversion experience in Rome, falling to his knees in front of Michelangelo's 'Pietà, but despite his love for the Italian language and Dante, Catholicism seemed. . .foreign to him. Having settled…
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