Title for March 2008: Shantung Compound by Langdon Gilkey

How do people of faith and non-faith react to the struggles of life and death in a closed, hostile environment where no one has a perceived advantage? What difference does faith make in one's daily life when pitted against others with and those without faith? What can we learn from this about ourselves and about community? Where is the Gospel in all this?

February 2008: INSIDE OUT by Dr. Larry Crabb

The twin sins of self-protection and demangdingness are signs of the idols of control and comfort respectively. Most of us struggle with a little of both, some far more of one than the other. Were you able to discern what the template of your heart was? Were you able to dig down deep by the help of the Holy Spirit and the author's work and Scripture to begin to approach repentance? What were your initial reactions to the work? Did it scare you to look inside?