Compassion and love leave no statistical traces. But we see their absence in disregard for the environment, high rates of violence against women, and school rage by teenagers in an AMERICA IN SEARCH OF ITS SOUL. Author Gibson Winter's interest in the links between community-nurtured people, spirituality, and world challenges fits in with former Vice President Al Gore's EARTH IN THE BALANCE and Thomas Merton's CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER. His book encourages us to develop the sacred within us and to learn from the successes of support groups. Perhaps some of the ways to do just that are covered in Peter Campbell's BIO-SPIRITUALITY, C.S. Lewis' MERE CHRISTIANITY, Henri Nouwen's REACHING OUT, and Rev. David Wilkerson's THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE.