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Thank you to everyone who entered the Conversant Life Refractions Giveaway! People submitted from all over the world, and we are pleased to announce that Conversant Life community member &lt;a href=&quot;/blogs/caroline+ferdinandsen&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Caroline Ferdinandsen&lt;/a&gt; is the winner.
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Caroline will receive a copy of Mako&#039;s new book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600063012?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=iambooks-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1600063012%22%3ERefractions:%20A%20Journey%20of%20Faith,%20Art,%20and%20Culture&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culutre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (NavPress, 2009). 
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Future &amp;quot;Creating in Love&amp;quot; posts will feature exerpts from the book, which you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600063012?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=iambooks-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1600063012%22%3ERefractions:%20A%20Journey%20of%20Faith,%20Art,%20and%20Culture&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;buy now by clicking here&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/a&gt;
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If you buy your copy using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600063012?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=iambooks-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1600063012%22%3ERefractions:%20A%20Journey%20of%20Faith,%20Art,%20and%20Culture&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internationalartsmovement.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;International Arts Movement&lt;/a&gt;, the non-profit arts organization Mako founded, will receive a portion of the proceeds.
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Congratulations, Caroline! 
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 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://navpress.com/store/product.aspx?id=9781600063015&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://navpress.com/images/products/9781600063015.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;140&quot; height=&quot;196&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture is a new book by Makoto Fujimura (NavPress, 2009)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;It is being released next month, but you can win a copy here!&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;To enter, simply send an email to christy(at)internationalartsmovement.org with &amp;quot;CONVERSANT LIFE&amp;quot; in the email subject line. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;In the body of the email, please include your full name, mailing address, and email address. You will be added to the International Arts Movement e-mail list, and automatically entered into the Conversant Life &lt;em&gt;Refractions&lt;/em&gt; Giveaway!&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;If you are already on IAM&#039;s mailing list, no worries - you can still be part of the contest. Simply mention in the email that you are already on the list. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Your email must be received by FRIDAY JANUARY 30 in order to be eligible. The winner will be announced right here on February 2!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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