While you’re still off of work (or not) for the holidays, I hope you’ll consider entering the Theology Photoshop Contest. Now with later deadline, and prizes!

The basics:

• Use your graphics editor of choice (Photoshop, Fireworks, Windows Paint, a scanner, a digital camera, ASCII characters, whatever), and create a composition that illustrates some point of theology or Christian history that you are aligned with.
• Entries are due by December 31, 2005 January 3, 2006 (deadlines are arbitrary anyway, aren’t they?)
• You can only make fun of your OWN theology. The point is not to mock others, but to enjoy a good laugh at ourselves.
• Trackback or comment on this post, with a link to your entry. If you don’t have a blog, you can email your entry to me (justin d0t baeder at gmail d0t c0m).
• You can use copyrighted images in your composition as long as it is clear that they are intended as parodies, which is allowable under fair use

I suppose I should announce…the PRIZES: Entries will be re-posted here after the contest deadline has passed. Readers will be able to vote on the entries through some as-yet undetermined mechanism. The winner will receive an iron-on of the winning entry, which can be affixed to any cloth surface (couch, hoodie, carpet, t-shirt, etc).

But wait! There will be not one, but three winners! And you can enter more than once. And so forth. There will definitely be additional consideration given to entries composed with Windows Paint, gluesticks, or ASCII characters (no fair using an ASCII generator!).