This week’s links come from some of my blogging friends.  Enjoy.

Pilgrim Without a Shrine has a great mix of news commentary and travelogue since arriving in Amman, Jordan. This is a good spot for a unique and thoughtful perspective on the headlines coming from the Middle East.

Wasabigelatine is a food blog written by a new friend from church. Her latest post is a reflection on the recent death of author David Foster Wallace. David Foster Wallace’s writing was like a gigantic funhouse mirror reflecting all of our contradictions and exposing them as sometimes funny, sometimes unbearable to look at, but always revelatory.

Won Kim has some thoughts about the first few chapters of The Jesus Way, a Eugene Peterson he and I are reading. I believe that it takes a lot of soul searching and honest inquiry of our hearts to determine whether Jesus is THE way or is just a way for us. Is He the only Life that we want or is He a genie that we try to conjure up from time to time to grant our wishes?