…with some final CBA (or whatever) images:

Nehemiah, the Praying Mantis:

Yes, it is lipstick, gloss and such:

Michael with a, er, football team promoting one of Karen Kingsbury’s several books. This one, Between Sundays. They were giving away tissues. Why tissues? As it says on the pack: "Life-Changing Fiction: Tissues Required)

And finally this one. This is actually what greeted you as you walked in one of the main sets of doors into the Georgia Congress Center. It’s a bed. A nice one. Advertising Songs in the Key of Solomon – a devotional for couples – or as the sign on the bed says, "The Devotional for Both Sides of the Bed" – by Anita and John Renfroe, Anita being a popular comic speaker on the circuit – she’s at all of the 28 Women of Faith conferences around the country this year.

As I said, these are random. I don’t have a comment on them, and I don’t assume the worst about it all – at all – although I am truly coming to doubt the wisdom of using cute animated figures to re-tell Bible stories, I will admit that. Once I recover from this trip and do some work that is waiting for me, I’ll have more to say about all that. Endless food for thought for the person interested in creativity and Christianity, publishing, and the energy within evangelical Protestantism.