Congratulations to the five finalists in the blogging contest. Please go here to vote for your favorite among the finalists. We'll be announcing the final winner later this week.

Thank you again to everyone who entered the blogging contest. Your journals were all impressive, and we wish we could crown you all winners. We'll be giving out some other awards for sub-categories later this week also, so please check back in for those.

The month of July is coming to an end, and that means it’s almost time to close the Beliefnet Blogging Contest. Thank you for your participation. We’re looking forward to reading your journals. Please use today, the last day of the month, to add to your blog and make sure it’s in great shape before the judging begins.

In addition to Beliefnet Community staff, we have several guest judges who will be helping choose a winner. You can find out who they are here:

community.beliefnet.com/blogcontest/blog...

Besides choosing one winning blog to feature on the Beliefnet homepage and elsewhere on the site, we’ll be giving awards in many different categories as well. Those awards will remain at the discretion of the judges, but here’s a sneak peak at some of the areas we’ll be recognizing:

-Best use of multimedia in a blog

-Most commented-on blog

-Most-read blog

-And more!

Thanks again for all your terrific writing this month. We hope that you will continue blogging on Beilefnet! We'll keep you posted about the results in the coming week.

I'm pleased to announce the judges for the summer blogging contest. In addition to Beliefnet's community staff, six guest judges from Beliefnet's professional blogging team will read and judge the entries. They are:

Therese Borchard, Beyond Blue blogger

Janice Taylor, Our Lady of Weight Loss blogger

Joanne Brokaw, Gospel Soundcheck blogger

Gus diZerega, A Pagan's Blog blogger

Joan Ball, Flirting with Faith blogger

Norris Chumley, Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life blogger

Thank you to our guest judges for participating, and to the 100 entrants whose journals we'll be considering! The contest period ends July 31, so we will begin judging the first week of August. Stay tuned for more...