Learned Passivity
“The way to love anything (anyone too) is to realize that it might be lost.” Tremendous Trifles, Gilbert Chesteron, p.56 1917. Teachers despise it, parents fear it, and ministers exhort about it; yet, its destroying effect relentlessly pounds at the Church’s foundations and debilitates the fibre of the Church, as the Church shuts her eyes and closes her ears. It is summed up in the expressions: “I don’t care”; “No time”; “Don’t worry about it”; “it doesn’t affect me”; and, “So what.” It is...