Four IVP titles named finalists in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

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Four IVP titles named finalists in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce that four IVP titles have been recognized as finalists in the twenty-second annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2019. After more than two thousand individual titles spread…

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Ed Gilbreath joins IVP as Executive Editor

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Ed Gilbreath joins IVP as Executive Editor WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to welcome Ed Gilbreath onto its staff in the newly created position of executive editor. Gilbreath, who is also an IVP author of two books, Reconciliation Blues and Birmingham Revolution, most recently served as the executive director of communications for the Evangelical Covenant Church. In that role, he led efforts to redesign and relaunch their ninety-year-old magazine, The Covenant Companion, which has since won numerous accolades, including the Evangelical Press Association’s…

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IVP and Missio Alliance partner on resources for the challenges of our day

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IVP and Missio Alliance partner on resources for the challenges of our day WESTMONT, IL—In a time of great tension and divides across racial, gender, political, and socioeconomic lines, InterVarsity Press and Missio Alliance have partnered again on a resource to equip the church for the challenges of our day. A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson will release on October 9, 2018. J. R. Rozko is the codirector of Missio Alliance, a fellowship of churches,…

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IVP launches #ReadWomen Campaign

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IVP launches #ReadWomen Campaign WESTMONT, IL— In alignment with their longstanding commitment to women’s voices and leadership, InterVarsity Press will launch the #ReadWomen campaign, officially beginning May 1, 2018. This campaign takes after the #ReadWomen2014 campaign, which began when Joanna Walsh, a writer and illustrator, created bookmark-shaped New Year’s cards featuring her favorite writers, declaring 2014 “the year of reading women.” Walsh was quickly flooded with requests for the cards, and a social media movement took off. “The very notion that ‘men don’t…

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InterVarsity Press titles honored with 2017 TGC Book Awards

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  InterVarsity Press titles honored with 2017 TGC Book Awards WESTMONT, IL—The Gospel Coalition honored two InterVarsity Press titles, In Search of Ancient Roots and The Economics of Neighborly Love, with 2017 TGC Book Awards. TGC editor Ivan Mesa said, “Each year we review around three hundred titles between our academic journal Themelios and our regular book reviews section, so at the end of the year it’s good to take stock of the most helpful titles from 2017.” In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past…

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IVP welcomes new Director of Finance

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IVP welcomes new Director of Finance WESTMONT, IL—After nineteen years as director of production and fulfillment for InterVarsity Press, Anne Gerth will be retiring on December 8, 2017. Jeff Crosby, IVP’s publisher, said, “Gerth came to IVP in 1998 and has played significant roles in IVP’s growth over the years. She pioneered our work with print-on-demand technology, in partnership with Lightning Source, Incorporated. She also provided a great deal of training and development work for IVP staff. We are grateful…

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IVP announces two new editors

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      IVP announces two new editors WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to welcome Katelyn Beaty as a freelance acquisitions editor and to announce the promotion of Ethan McCarthy to assistant editor. As a freelance acquisitions editor for IVP, Beaty will acquire six to eight books a year and work at IVP one day a week to meet with the publishing committee and editorial team about forthcoming titles. Beaty is an editor at large with Christianity Today, where she previously…

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IVP announces Art Director and Academic Marketing Manager

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IVP announces Art Director and Academic Marketing Manager WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce the appointments of David Fassett to art director and Jeff Gissing to academic marketing manager. Fassett joined IVP as a marketing designer in 2009, and was promoted to senior graphic designer in 2014. During his time at IVP he has worked closely with Cindy Kiple, who retired in May after fifteen years as art director. Fassett designed several award-winning book covers, including Death Before the…

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IVP Titles Make Short Lists of WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016

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IVP Titles Make Short Lists of WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 WESTMONT, IL— WORLD Magazine included two IVP titles on its short lists of the Best Books of 2016, which includes books published between April and December 2016. WORLD also cited IVP best-selling classic Knowing God by J. I. Packer as one of the “better reading options than last year’s Christian bestsellers.” In response to the list of the top fifty best-selling Christian books of 2016 released by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in January, Jamie…

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InterVarsity Press Launches New Website, Customer Management System

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InterVarsity Press Launches New Website, Customer Management System WESTMONT, IL— InterVarsity Press (IVP) is excited to announce the launch of its new integrated customer management system as of March 1, 2017. In partnership with AdvantageCS (ACS), IVP undertook a two-year project that overhauled its customer, order entry, book catalog, and rights/royalties databases, as well as revamped the existing ivpress.com website to work for customers of all types, from trade sales to direct-to-consumer sales. “Our new platform will provide for a more tightly…

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Five InterVarsity Press Titles Chosen as Outreach Magazine’s Resources of the Year

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Five InterVarsity Press Titles Chosen as Outreach Magazine’s Resources of the Year WESTMONT, IL— Outreach magazine named five InterVarsity Press titles as Outreach Resources of the Year, with one additional book making the short list for the “also recommended” resource in its category. Outreach received close to two hundred submissions with release dates between Nov. 1, 2015 and Oct. 31, 2016. Those submissions were divided into twelve categories and panelists were selected for each category. Each panelist chose one Resource of the Year, with some…

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InterVarsity Press Names New Associate Editor for IVP Books

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InterVarsity Press Names New Associate Editor for IVP Books Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce Anna Moseley Gissing as the new associate editor for IVP Books. Gissing is no stranger to the work of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). She most recently served as the associate director of Women in the Academy and Professions (WAP), a division of InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries. Gissing was also the editor of The Well, a website designed to support women in…

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IVP Welcomes Academic and Library Marketing Manager

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IVP Welcomes Academic and Library Marketing Manager Contact: Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce Parker Hathaway as IVP’s new academic and library marketing manager. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with Parker Hathaway in his role here at IVP,” said Helen Lee, IVP’s director of marketing. “I had been acquainted with Parker’s excellent marketing skills before he joined us, and I am thrilled that our books and authors will now have the opportunity…

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IVP Issues Statement About Peter O’Brien Plagiarism Issue

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IVP Issues Statement About Peter O’Brien Plagiarism Issue Contact: Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com WESTMONT, IL—Following the August announcement by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. regarding plagiarism in two Pillar New Testament Commentaries written by Peter O’Brien, a careful investigation was undertaken of Dr. O’Brien’s two volumes in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series published by InterVarsity Press (USA). It is with sadness that we report that both God Has Spoken in His Son (2016) and Salvation to the Ends of the Earth (2001, co-authored…

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IVP Announces New Director of Marketing and Recent Management Transitions

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IVP Announces New Director of Marketing and Recent Management Transitions  Contact | Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that Helen Lee has accepted IVP’s recently created director of marketing position. Lee has served as the associate editor for IVP Books and IVP Praxis since 2014 and will officially move from her editorial role on October 3. “Though we know Helen as an acquisitions and development editor, she came to us with a varied background educationally and…

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