Eastern Orthodox classic The Way of the Pilgrim #1 on ‘Top 5 Fiction Books for the Soul’

James Wilhoit, Christianity Today

Amazon: The Way of a Pilgrim

Weekend Walkabout: December 6, 2008

26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):

• Afterlife in the Old Testament: The Scholarly Consensus? - Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
• Bible Memorization Worksheet 2009 - Triablogue
• Converging the Web and Desktop - ChurchCrunch
• Different Isn’t Wrong … - Justin Wise
• Encouragement for Trans-Racial Adoption Anxiety - Vitamin Z
• Fox News Conservative? - Russell Moore
• Grand Duke Henri’s Last Stand - Rod Dreher
• Hate Your Enemy? - Greg Gilbert, Church Matters
• Innocent Suffering - DesiringGod blog
• J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales for Wizards (and Muggles) - Sherry Huang, Idol Chatter
• Korea - 1 Day Left - Let’s Start Right - Human3rror
• Lay Worship - The Sacred Sandwich
• My Two Cents #123 - Osama Bin Lego and other Islamic fare - Daniel G. two or three
• No Food, Drink or Levity Allowed in the Sanctuary - Motte Brown, Boundless
• Our Problem with the Old Testament - Justin Taylor
• Pithy Pre-pastorate Pastoral Pointers - Dan Phillips
• Quantum of Follies - Dayo Olopade, Culture11
• Russian Patriarch Dies - Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today liveblog
• Short Saturdays - Who needs our money? - Stuff Christians Like
• Things we should be doing - Amy Scott
• Ultimate 80’s Medley - Denny Burk
• Video of My Sermon on the Bible - Adrian Warnock
• Wanted: Kindness - Carla Rolfe
• 20 EXcellent Free Rich-Text Editors - Webdesigner Depot
• Yes, the terrorists targeted Jews - Daniel Pulliam, GetReligion
• Zacharius Ursinus - Theopedia article (Z’s are always hard to find … but it will be worth your while to learn something about Ursinus, a contemporary of Martin Luther)

“How Can a Person Grow Spiritually in the Next Year?”

That question is answered by five church leaders who are (respectively) Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist – at Michael Spencer’s blog.

This is a first in a series of posts with contributions from this group, whom Spencer has drolly termed “The Liturgical Gangstas.”