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PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | THEMES | LINKS TO THIS CONTEST | WINNER | LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later) |
December 26, 1993 | 43 | GOOD LORD! | What does God look like? | REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
March 9, 1997 | 208 | SEND IN THE CLONES | Suggest questions a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider. | POL REL SCI | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 2, 1997 | 242 | SACRED COW PIES | Take cheap shots at sacred institutions only, places and things that are so noble and wholesome they are beyond reproach, from among the items provided. | POL CUL REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
November 22, 1998 | 297 | FREE FOR OIL | Take any article in today's paper, and write an outraged letter to the editor about it that totally misses the point, either by misreading a word or misunderstanding the topic. | WAS CUL POL REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
April 1, 2001 | 395 (LXII) | Devilishly Clever | Describe someone's special little corner of Hell. | REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 29, 2004 | 573 | Thine Ad Goest Here | Propose biblical and other literary passages, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement. | POE REL LIT BUS | Text file | ||
November 28, 2004 | 586 | God's Will (and Won't) | Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted us to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----." | REL | Text file | ||
March 27, 2005 | 603 | Sui Genesis | Take one or two of the 50 chapters of the KJV Book of Genesis and draw thou from them, using words in the order in which they appear in the original, your own passage. | REL WOR | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 11, 2006 | 666 | Bedevil Us | Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days. | REL | Text file | Contest image | ||
July 12, 2008 | 773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | REL | Text file | ||
September 26, 2009 | 836 | Other People's Business | Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. | POL BUS REL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 27, 2010 | 896 | Other people's business | Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. | BUS REL POL | Text file | ||
June 4, 2017 | 1230 | What in creation . . . ? | Supply a brief monologue or dialogue about a Creator's specifications or planning for some living being. (Conversational text) | REL | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
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