2019 Higher Goals Awards
Presented during EPA’s 2019 convention, the 2019 Higher Goals awards honor the best work done in specific categories during the 2018 calendar year.
Article Series
First Place: The Christian Post, School Shootings — Leonardo Blair, Brandon Showalter. Second Place: Christianity Today Online, Bill Hybels News Coverage and Editorial — Bob Smietana, Mark Galli. Third Place: The Chimes, Mental Health Series — Christian Leonard. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine Online, What You Don’t Know — Kayla Yiu. Fifth Place: The Christian Chronicle, Big Questions for Churches of Christ — Erik Tryggestad
Biblical Exposition
First Place: Christianity Today, A Consecrated Fool — Fred Smith. Second Place: One Magazine, Attitude Overboard — Ruth McDonald. Third Place: AG News, The Resurrection of Jesus: Fact or Fiction? — Wave Nunnally. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine Online, How to Read the Bible with Curiosity — Amy Hayes. Fifth Place: In Touch Magazine, Making Sense of Leviticus — Joshua Ryan Butler
Blog: Single post
First Place: Boundless, An Open Letter to the Author of ‘Men Prefer Debt-Free Virgins Without Tattoos’ — Erica Wilkinson. Second Place: The Banner, Serving While Living with Disabilities — Jenna C. Hoff. Third Place: Mutuality Online, Why Are We Teaching Girls to Hate Their Bodies? — Kate Dewhurst. Fourth Place: Mary Larmoyeux, Forgiveness and Healing for the Post-Abortive. Fifth Place: ERLC.com, The Courageous Work of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Denis Mukwege — Catherine Hodge
Blog: Website
First Place: EFCA Blog — Abby Farson Pratt, Kevin Horner, Rae Phillips, Zack Bryant, Jeremy Cherry, Josh Bryant. Second Place: Christianity Today Online, The Exchange — Ed Stetzer. Third Place: Boundless — Lisa Anderson, James Clapper. Fourth Place: Facts & Trends Online — Aaron Earls, Joy Allmond, Aaron Wilson, Jonathan Howe, Carol Pipes. Fifth Place: The Banner, As I Was Saying — Shiao Chong, Judith Claire Hardy
Cartoon
First Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr., Friends Out Back — Kevin Zimmer, Lexie Rhodes. Second Place: The Banner | Cal Baptist University, Lancer Life Comic — Sarah Dane. Third Place: Answers Magazine, Kids Answers Sick Squad — Ruslan Safarov, Dan Stelzer. Fourth Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse, Degrees of Kelvin — Dennis Edwards, Jenny Dillon. Fifth Place: DTS Student Paper, There’s Just Something Special — Mark Pate
Cause of the Year Article – Children in Crisis
First Place: Luke Society News, Stepping to the Plate — Dan Breen. Second Place: World Vision Magazine, Building Happy Childhoods — Laura Reinhardt. Third Place: Christian History, A Substantial Work — Philip Thomas. Fourth Place: Sojourners, Dismantling ‘Supermax for Kids’ — Matt Smith. Fifth Place: Christianity Today, Hope and Play — Kate Shellnutt
Cause of the Year Illustration/Photo – Children in Crisis
First Place: World Vision Magazine Online, Overcoming Obstacles — Laura Reinhardt. Second Place: World Vision Magazine, Rohingya Refugee Crisis — Shabir Hussain. Third Place: Christianity Today, How Long Will it Be? — Gary S. Chapman
Cover
First Place: The Point — Cassidy Eldridge, Eliana Park, Rebecca Mitchell, Victoria Orozco. Second Place: In Touch Magazine — Cameron Lawrence, Jamie A. Hughes, Aline Mello, Eric Capossela. Third Place: Answers Magazine — Dan Stelzer, Chris Neville. Fourth Place: Alliance Life — Kenneth Crane. Fifth Place: Citizen — Doug Fleener, Karla Dial
Critical Review
First Place: Christianity Today, The Dangerous Mr. Rogers — D. L. Mayfield. Second Place: Sojourners, Let’s Start at the Very Beginning — Julie Polter. Third Place: ERLC.com, The Pleading of Ben Sasse in “Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal” — Daniel Patterson. Fourth Place: Crux, BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google — Craig Gay. Fifth Place: Christianity Today Online, How Poetry Quiets the ‘Pandemonium of Blab’ — Christie Purifoy
Department
First Place: Focus on the Family, Hacks & Facts — Sheila Seifert, Vance Fry. Second Place: In Touch Magazine, Faith Works — Christie Purifoy, John Blase, Aline Mello, Cameron Lawrence, Jamie Hughes, Eric Capossela. Third Place: One Magazine, First Glimpse — Eric K. Thomsen. Fourth Place: World Vision Magazine, In the Kitchen — Kari Costanza, Laura Reinhardt, Heather Klinger, Sevil Omer. Fifth Place: Answers Magazine, Creation on Display — Melissa Webb, Heather Brinson Bruce, Gordon Wilson, Jeffrey Tomkins, Joel Ebert, Tom Hennigan
Devotional
First Place: In Touch Magazine, The Ministry of Lament — D.L. Mayfield. Second Place: The Covenant Companion, Settling for a Fix-it God — Kevin Butcher. Third Place: Christianity Today Online, Learning to See Your Single Neighbor — Holly Stallcup. Fourth Place: Illinois Baptist, Confessions of a ‘Community’ Skeptic — Meredith Flynn. Fifth Place: Brio Magazine, Becoming a Woman of Peace — Krishana Kraft
Editorial
First Place: Christianity Today Online, We Need an Independent Investigation of Sovereign Grace Ministries — Mark Galli. Second Place: IMB.org, A Thousand Words: What Your Photos Say about Mission — William Haun, Rachel Cohen. Third Place: Grace & Peace Magazine, Trying on New Lenses — Charles A. Tillman, Sr.. Fourth Place: The Alabama Baptist, Saying No to Racism — Bob Terry. Fifth Place: Mutuality, The Tears of Men: The Emotional Masculinity of Jesus and Saint Francis — Mimi Haddad
Evangelism Article
First Place: Christian Leader, Real Simple Sharing — Aaron Myers. Second Place: The Banner, A Pizza-Box Sign — Elizabeth Drummond. Third Place: Facts & Trends Online, Reaching Gamers with the Gospel — Aaron Wilson. Fourth Place: Grace & Peace Magazine, Four Practices that Characterize Wesleyan Evangelism — Douglas Powe. Fifth Place: IMB.org, Salvation Bracelets in Africa? No, Thanks — Melanie Clinton
Feature Article
First Place: World Vision Magazine, The Long Path to Clean Water — Kristy J. O’Hara-Glaspie, Jon Warren, Ashley Walton. Second Place: The Christian Chronicle, 1, 000 Wells Around the World — Bobby Ross Jr., Ashley Reeves. Third Place: The Clarion, Loss of Sight, Gained Vision — Bri Shaw, Jamie Hudalla, Kendall Soderstrom, Carlo Holmberg. Fourth Place: Citizen, A Good Break — Matt Kaufman. Fifth Place: The Voice of the Martyrs, Proclaiming the Gospel in a Prison Nation — Kim van Veen, Natasha Fullard, Dennis Waterman
Fiction
First Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse, The Lost Woods — Jonathan Friesen. Second Place: Boundless, Grace for My Worst Day — George Halitzka. Third Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr., Up, Up and Away — Brock Eastman. Fourth Place: Explorer’s Guide, New Year, New Jayden — Derek Lewis, Scott Brooks
First-Person Article
First Place: Baptist Press, First-Person: A Valentine for Grieving Husbands — Erich Bridges. Second Place: Sojourners, A Grief Deferred — Josina Guess. Third Place: IMB.org, Living the Prosperity of the Gospel in the Midst of Suffering — Barbara Singerman. Fourth Place: The Covenant Companion Online, This Is My Home — Meztli. Fifth Place: Fathom, Race and Racism in the Classroom — Timothy Basselin
Freelance Article
First Place: Michael Foust, 3 Loud Pro-Life Messages in A Quiet Place. Second Place: Ann-Margret Hovsepian, Not Just for Show. Third Place: Carolyn Curtis, Hope in the Heartache: Sutherland Springs One Year Later. Fourth Place: Chris Maxwell, You Must Care for Yourself or You Can’t Care for Others. Fifth Place: Sherri Langton, The Art of Compassion
General Article: Long
First Place: SAConnects, Pain, Miracles, and a New Mission — Hugo Bravo. Second Place: The Covenant Companion, Addiction & the Church — Dana Bowman. Third Place: In Touch Magazine, The (Other) Great Deceiver — Matt Woodley. Fourth Place: Christianity Today Online, When the Rohingya Came, This Christian Hospital was Ready — Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra. Fifth Place: One Magazine, All the Difference — Ashley Baines McNeese
General Article: Medium
First Place: The Brink, Civility and Courage in an Age of Confusion — Daniel Darling. Second Place: The Alabama Baptist, Gaming: a New Missions Field — Carrie Brown McWhorter. Third Place: Christianity Today Online, Fleming Rutledge: Why Being ‘Spiritual’ Is Never Enough — Fleming Rutledge. Fourth Place: EFCA Blog, Why People Stop Believing — Paul Chamberlain. Fifth Place: In Touch Magazine, Without Condemnation — Lynn D. Morrissey
General Article: Short
First Place: Answers Magazine, Strength of the Pack — Heather Brinson Bruce. Second Place: Focus on the Family, Walking With Grandpa — Grace Penn. Third Place: SAConnects, ‘Moo’-tivated to Serve — Robert Mitchell. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine, The Break-In — Joseph E. Miller. Fifth Place: Christianity Today Online, Is the Body That ‘Betrayed’ Me Still ‘Very Good’? — Derek Rishmawy
Humorous
First Place: Sojourners, I Could Stick My Head in the Sand — Ed Spivey Jr.. Second Place: In Touch Magazine Online, Ode to Ho Ho — Jamie A. Hughes. Third Place: The Covenant Companion, The Alpaca in the Manger — Dana Bowman. Fourth Place: Teachers of Vision, Raiders of the Posh Park — Dave Meurer. Fifth Place: One Magazine, Caffeine — Eric K. Thomsen
Interview Article
First Place: The Brink, Kind Is the New Classy — Candace Cameron Bure, David Jones, Katy Fry. Second Place: The Covenant Companion, Torn from Home. Third Place: Grace & Peace Magazine, End of Life Care as Discipleship — Charles W. Christian. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine, The Third Place: Making the Church a Bridge to Reconciliation — Aline Mello. Fifth Place: In Touch Magazine Online, The God Who Sees Us — Aline Mello
Original Art: Digital/Mixed Media
First Place: Answers Magazine, Noah’s Ark Could It Float? — Chris Neville. Second Place: Sojourners, How Evangelicals Became White — Ed Spivey Jr.. Third Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse, The Voice of an Angel — Mike Heath. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine, Different Together — Daniël Roozendaal. Fifth Place: Pursuit, Finding Identity in Diversity — Lauren Shelburne
Original Art: Traditional
First Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr., Up, Up and Away — Jim Madsen, Lexie Rhodes, Jim Cail. Second Place: Focus on the Family, Does God Like Me? — Brian Mellema, Jody Reiner, Carly Jade Catto. Third Place: Christianity Today, Love Your Frenemies — Jonathan Bartlett. Fourth Place: War Cry, Fear Not — Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee, Cliff Nielsen, Jeff McDonald, Roger Selvage. Fifth Place: Answers Magazine, What’s Behind Today’s Attacks on Marriage? — Ben Stafford, Dan Stelzer
Personality Article
First Place: The Christian Chronicle, 18 Wheels and a Heart to Serve — Bobby Ross Jr.. Second Place: Christianity Today, For Southern Baptists, J.D. Greear is a National Treasure — Kate Shellnutt. Third Place: In Touch Magazine, Frontline Faith — John VandenOever. Fourth Place: The Alabama Baptist, Leaving a Legacy — Grace Thornton. Fifth Place: One Magazine, Adding Up the Numbers — Brenda J. Evans
Photo Feature
First Place: World Vision Magazine, The Long Path to Clean Water — Kristy J. O’Hara-Glaspie, Jon Warren. Second Place: Answers Magazine, The Ultimate Beach House — Dan Stelzer, Chris Neville. Third Place: Christianity Today, How Long Will It Be? — Gary S. Chapman. Fourth Place: The Covenant Companion, Who Do You Say That I Am? — Eric Staswick, Kristi Schild, Tim Coburn, Scott Toste, Leon Saperstein, LaMar Photography. Fifth Place: In Touch Magazine, Between Two Worlds — Ben Rollins, Joseph E. Miller, Cameron Lawrence, Jamie A. Hughes, Aline Mello, Eric Capossela
Photography Use
First Place: World Vision Magazine — Jon Warren, Laura Reinhardt, Chris Huber, Heather Klinger, Eugene Lee. Second Place: FULLER — Lauralee Farrer, Tamara Johnston McMahon, Nate Harrison, Lindsey Sheets, Katy Cook, Brandon Hook. Third Place: Christianity Today — Alecia Sharp, Sarah Gordon, Ted Olsen, Andy Olsen. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine — Cameron Lawrence, Jamie Hughes, Aline Mello, Sandy Feit, Eric Capossela, Tom Sabonis-Chafee. Fifth Place: Pursuit — Randy Plavajka, Kathleen Phillips, Phillip Ndowu, Jessica Rose
Poetry
First Place: Mutuality, Hunger — Jax Cortez. Second Place: Sojourners, In the Mourning — Da’Shawn Mosley. Third Place: The Banner, Thinking He Was the Gardener — David Schelhaas Schelhaas. Fourth Place: Fathom, Foundling — Jonathan Rowe. Fifth Place: Crux, This That I Love — Sarah Crowley Chestnut
Publication Design
First Place: Pursuit — Randy Plavajka, Kathleen Phillips, Jessica Rose, Phillip Ndowu. Second Place: In Touch Magazine — Cameron Lawrence, Jamie Hughes, Aline Mello, Sandy Feit, Eric Capossela, Tom Sabonis-Chafee. Third Place: FULLER — Lauralee Farrer, Tamara Johnston McMahon, Becky Still, Michael Wright, Katy Cook, Kathryn Sangsland. Fourth Place: The Great Commission Magazine — Ryan Thomas, Maria Estes, Emily Lyons-Wood. Fifth Place: Answers Magazine — Dan Stelzer, Chris Neville
Publication Redesign
First Place: Evangel Magazine — David Mayne, Matt Hufman. Second Place: The Banner — Dean Heetderks, Pete Euwema. Third Place: Ministry & Leadership — Ligon Duncan, Phillip Holmes, Paul Schwarz, Jonathan Shull, Matt McQuade, Tiffany Bryson. Fourth Place: One Magazine — Eric K. Thomsen, Andrea Young, Marianne Stewart. Fifth Place: Resource — Eric Reed, Kris Kell, Lisa Misner, Meredith Flynn, Andrew Woodrow, Leah Honnen
Reporting
First Place: Facts & Trends, Opioid Crisis Hits Home — Bob Smietana. Second Place: The Christian Chronicle, At the Border, a Prayer for Forgotten People — Erik Tryggestad. Third Place: Christianity Today Online, Out of the Flood — Brittney Martin. Fourth Place: Christianity Today, How Long Will it Be? — Jeremy Weber. Fifth Place: AG News, Justices Side with Free Speech Over Abortion Rights — John Kennedy
Single Photo: Candid
First Place: World Vision Magazine, A Winter Walk in Armenia — Laura Reinhardt. Second Place: World Vision Magazine Online, Orchestrated by God — Jon Warren. Third Place: Cru Storylines, Christ the Redeemer Monument, Rio de Janeiro — Ted Wilcox. Fourth Place: In Touch Magazine, Frontline Faith — Tommy Trenchard. Fifth Place: Christianity Today, How Long Will it Be? — Gary S. Chapman
Single Photo: Controlled
First Place: Cru Storylines, Dr. Elioisa in her Clinic — Ted Wilcox. Second Place: World Vision Magazine Online, A Radiant Smile of Hope — Laura Reinhardt. Third Place: SAConnects, Hands Holding Clovers — Ryan Love. Fourth Place: Christianity Today, JD Greear Portrait — Alex Boerner. Fifth Place: The Covenant Companion, Who Do You Say That I Am? — Tim Coburn, Eric Staswick
Single-Theme Section or Issue
First Place: Christian History, Food and Faith: 2000 Years of Feasting and Fasting — Jennifer Woodruff Tait, LaVonne Neff, Dawn Moore, Doug Johnson, Kaylena Radcliff, Dan Graves. Second Place: War Cry, The Salvation Army 101 — Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee, Major Frank Duracher, Jeff McDonald, Roger Selvage, Gloria Hull, Ashley Schena. Third Place: In Touch Magazine, Forgiveness — Cameron Lawrence, Jamie Hughes, Aline Mello, Sandy Feit, Eric Capossela, Tom Sabonis-Chafee. Fourth Place: The Banner, Synod Issue — Shiao Chong, Judith Claire Hardy, Kristy Quist, Alissa Vernon, Gayla Postma, Dean Heetderks. Fifth Place: Christianity Today, Billy Graham Special Issue
Standing Column
First Place: Christianity Today, Spirited Life — Andrew Wilson. Second Place: The Clarion, The Clarion Columnist — Jamie Hudalla. Third Place: Fathom, The (Dis)content — Aarik Danielsen. Fourth Place: One Magazine, First Glimpse — Eric K. Thomsen. Fifth Place: The Chimes, Everything Eagles — Austin Green
Student Writer of the Year
First Place: The Chimes, Thousand Oaks Shooting Devastation Hits Biola — Isabelle Thompson. Second Place: Decision, Standing Firm for Public School Kids — Emma Morris. Third Place: The Christian Chronicle, Our Poverty Challenges Us to Cling to God — Elise Miller. Fourth Place: Leading Hearts, Sioni Rodriguez: The Freedom in Forgiveness — Emily Walton. Fifth Place: Cedars, A Baby for Christmas — Paolo Carrion
Table of Contents
First Place: The Clarion — Sierra Smith, Mary Hitt, Maddie DeBilzan, Carlo Holmberg, Katie Viesselman, Maddie Christy. Second Place: In Touch Magazine — Cameron Lawrence, Jamie A. Hughes, Aline Mello, Sandy Feit, Eric Capossela. Third Place: World Vision Magazine — Kristy J. O’Hara-Glaspie, Heather Klinger, Sevil Omer, Ashley Walton, Brad Woodard. Fourth Place: The Banner — Dean Heetderks, Pete Euwema. Fifth Place: Christianity Today — Alecia Sharp, Sarah Gordon, Ted Olsen, Andy Olsen
Titles
First Place: Christianity Today, My Pregnancy, Not My Baby; The Arbor of God; Love Your Frenemies — Kate Shellnutt, Alecia Sharp, Matt Reynolds, Sarah Gordon, Andy Olsen. Second Place: The Covenant Companion, Ashes of Lent, Who Do You Say That I Am?, Diagnosis Cancer. Third Place: Answers Magazine, How the Arctic Fox Got Its Winter Wardrobe, Shells-The Ultimate Beach House, Not Just a Pretty Face — Tom Hennigan, Matthew Ingle, Roger Sanders, Bethany McShurley. Fourth Place: Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr., Frog Days of Summer; Step, Rumble, Grumble; Tongue Twisters — Jesse Florea, Joanna Echols, Kate Jameson, Lexie Rhodes. Fifth Place: In Touch Magazine Online, The Difference of 435 Square Feet, Give of Your Firstpencils, Us and Us — Kayla Yerden, Jamie A. Hughes, Matt Woodley, Cameron Lawrence, Aline Mello, Sandy Feit
Two-Page Spread Design
First Place: Christianity Today, My Pregnancy, Not My Baby — Alecia Sharp, Melanie Grizzel. Second Place: In Touch Magazine, Making Sense of Leviticus — Joshua Ryan Butler, Tim McDonagh. Third Place: Sojourners, The Person Who Remains — Janice Hicks. Fourth Place: Concordia Seminary Magazine, The Journey to Seminary life — Vicki Biggs, Melanie Ave, Jayna Rollings, Michelle Poneleit, Courtney Koll. Fifth Place: Grace & Peace Magazine, The Minister as a Lifelong Learner — JR Caines, Charles Christian, Bob Broadbooks, Jeanette Littleton, Rebecca Rodeheaver
Typography and Lettering
First Place: In Touch Magazine, Making Sense of Leviticus — Tim McDonagh, Eric Capossela, Cameron Lawrence, Jamie A. Hughes, Aline Mello. Second Place: Christianity Today, For Southern Baptists, J.D. Greear is a National Treasure — Sarah Gordon. Third Place: SAConnects, Freedom for the Captives — Warren L. Maye, Robert Mitchell, Lea L. Greene, Reginald Raines, Alaina DiGiacomo. Fourth Place: Answers Magazine, How The Arctic Fox Got Its Winter Wardrobe — David Milan, Dan Stelzer. Fifth Place: Brio Magazine, Scripture Art Jeremiah 17:7, NIV — Caren Kreger
Website design
First Place: Fathom — Kelsey Hency, Jonathan Minnema, Jeremy Cherry, Zack Bryant, Jon Thompson. Second Place: Light + Life Magazine Online — Jay Cordova, Douglas Britt, Karen Cantu, Peter Mitchell, Eric Miller. Third Place: EFCA Blog — Abby Farson Pratt, Kevin Horner, Rae Phillips, Zack Bryant, Jeremy Cherry, Josh Bryant. Fourth Place: World Vision Magazine Online. Fifth Place: Boundless — Lisa Anderson, James Clapper
