Caryll Houselander: Our Christianity is a Utility Religion
Writing in a 1947 series on "The Church and the World Crisis," Caryll Houselander suggests the problem is with us as much as with the world. "The collapse of materialism around us does not imply the collapse of materialism within us," she writes. "For that, we have habitually made too many acts of faith in the treasure we hope to lay up upon earth."