The 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium Winners

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:

Ogre’s Politics and Views

True
Grit

Unbridled
Warhorse

Thank you also to the generous
sponsors who donated our exciting array of prizes, especially Wheatstone Academy.

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