• We’ve announced the official rules and procedures for the Bosscher-Hammond Prize Competition. The Prizes will fund 26 semifinalists to attend FC08 and distribute $6,000 in prize money. The first milestone (the “Intent to Submit”), with a deadline of October 1, is rapidly approaching.

• Our series of Director’s Videos continues, with #3 released on August 7 with reasons not to delay registering for the conference.

• Andy Crouch will be hosting and moderating a wrap-up session — featuring interaction with various FC08 speakers, leaders, and delegates — during the conference’s final plenary session. (Crouch’s new book, Culture Making, has just been released by InterVarsity Press.)

• Crouch will also be chairing the Bosscher-Hammond Prize Competition Jury, leading a team of jurors in the evaluation of the twenty-six semifinalists’ entries, hearing the oral presentations of the seven finalists, and naming the three winners onsite at FC08 in December.

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See past updates from July.