If you haven’t checked out the new design redux over at St. Austin Review, do so! It’s simple, creative and I think perfectly in tune with their goal and mission is–it’s not trying too hard to be what it’s not.

One feature of the new web site is the StAR blog, the Ink Desk, featuring snippets of the faith and culture conversation.

Read my first entry on Grassroots Films search for interns.

Nominations are in for the Catholic New Media awards. Among the 2009 contestants are some of my favorites, including:

• The Curt Jester, whose “Walk-In Monstrance” entry made me laugh for at least twenty minutes.
• What Does the Prayer Really Say?
• Word Incarnate, by spiritual buddy Father Abbot Joseph at Transfiguration Monastery.
• Creative Minority Report, which makes me chuckle on a regular basis. Witty, witty, witty! The Catholic Onion. Don’t miss their “Marketing the New Mass”

Why is this on a faith and culture blog? I thought it was all about the liturgy and sacred arts? Amen, “the fine arts were born on the altar,” but a renewal of faith and culture must speak the language of the day, which includes new media.