In 2022, Let's Take T.S. Eliot's Advice

This is a season for taking stock of who we are, how we live, and what we are building. It is the best season, perhaps, to ask ourselves the question of poet T. S. Eliot's choruses from The Rock: "Have you built well?" In 1934, Eliot penned The Rock to fundraise for 45 church buildings near London. Appropriately, his frequent theme was building -- not only churches but also the church as a thick community, an institution, a people seeking knowledge of God, a sanctuary from alienation and futility.