Congratulations to the winners of the EO/Wheatstone Academy blog symposium. Thank you to all of you who submitted your wonderful essays--it was a very close race. The following posts earned their authors one of five fantastic prizes:
First Place: Mark Fedeli at A Deo Lumen
Second Place: Jordan J. Ballor at The Acton Institute Power Blog
Third Place: Mark Stanley at Digital Reason
Fourth Place: Jeff Nuding at Dadmanly
Fifth Place: Letitia Wong at Talitha Koum
These lucky authors have their choice of one of the following:
(1) A full tuition scholarship for a Christian high school student of the winner's choice to Wheatstone Academy. [A $950 value]
(2) The 'Quintessentials' from Stand to Reason, including the Ambassador Basic Curriculum, Tactics in Defending the Faith DVD, Decision Making and the Will of God CD set, and a signed copy of Greg Koukl's new book Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air. [A $150 value]
(3) A full-tuition scholarship to the upcoming GodBlogCon (September 2008). [A $150 value]
(4) A two-year subscription to Touchstone Magazine. [A $59.95 value]
(5) A year subscription to Townhall magazine. [A $34.95 value]
The first place winner will have their choice of items with the second place deciding between the remaining items, etc. The fifth place winner will automatically receive the unselected item.
Donnell Duncan at The Cracked Door earned an honorable mention. A $200 donation to Compassion International will be made in his name.
Many thanks to all who made this symposium a success, especially our distinguished judges--James Kushiner from Touchstone magazine's Mere Comments, Melinda Penner from Stand to Reason, Matt Lewis from Townhall.com, and Matthew Anderson from Mere Orthodoxy.
Thanks to all who helped spread the word about this symposium. As promised, we put all your names together in a hat--literally! The following three blogs were drawn, and each will receive a copy of The New Media Frontier, forthcoming from Crossway Books:
Thank you also to the generous sponsors who donated our exciting array of prizes, especially Wheatstone Academy.
Thank you for putting my name into the hat!