Leon Garfield. Most memorable (to me) for some period London pieces ("Smith" & "Devil-in-the-Fog") and retold Greek myths ("The God Beneath the Sea" & "The Golden Shadow"). Dirt cheap on Amazon.
Oh boy, Alan Garner. How could I have forgotten? Check out "Elidor," "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen," its sequel "The Moon of Gomrath", and anything else by him that you come across.
Neil Gaiman's "Stardust" -- it was my daughter's favourite book, lightly bowdlerised as her bedtime story when she was five.
I have to second the Lloyd Alexander "Prydain" books. They're also excellent for reading aloud: good characterisation, making it easy to find voices for each.
And for a change of pace, Susanna Clarke's recent novel "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" would be superb.
We had fun with George MacDonald's "The Princess and the Goblin" and "The Princess and Curdie", but I can see they're not to everyone's taste.
Coming in late: Xopher -- "Closest I come to this one is telling people of a Shamanic bent that my power animal is a velociraptor. (It isn't, it's a panther, but they get the joke.)"
So: did you ever study Saurintology? (No, I'm almost serious. It was founded by a "person of a Shamanic bent," too).
Hal asks about whether you can achieve salvation by faith or by good works. An Anglican vicar I know answered this question, "Yes." Which I thought rather neat.
Try googling on these four words: salvation faith "good works". I guarantee you'll find plenty of directly relevant discussion, which suggests the issue isn't as cut'n'dried as your friend thought. The always-amusing Jack Chick (www.chick.org) seems to have it in for good works... which is probably why he never perpetrates any.
(If you missed last year's Cthulhu Chick Tract, catch it here now).
Anyone for "Credo"? I have a few copies left of the new and improved Second Edition, created by the game's author Chris Gidlow. While the game's production values are nothing to write home about (sheets of card printed at Kinko's: even cheaper-looking than the Chaosium version!), if anyone *really* wants to get their hands on a copy, drop me a line at the email address above.
Apology to the admirable polyglots in this thread: I'm afraid the variant Creeds this game produces only come in English.
The best source for early church heresies I know is the "Panarion" by St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis: highly recommended. Large chunks are available online (via Google: not many false hits!), and there was a good edition of select passages -- all the juicy heretical beliefs and scriptures, none of the boring orthodox refutations -- some years back (edited and translated by P R Amidon, published by OUP: ISBN 0195062914).
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