WORLD Magazine selects Dane Ortlund’s “Gentle and Lowly” as 2020 Accessible Theology Book of the Year

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WORLD Magazine selects Dane Ortlund’s “Gentle and Lowly” as 2020 Accessible Theology Book of the Year WHEATON, Ill.—Crossway is pleased to announce that Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Crossway, April 2020) has won the 2020 WORLD Magazine Accessible Theology Book of the Year. Megan Hill’s A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church(Crossway, May 2020) was awarded honorable mention in the same category. “It’s a great honor for Crossway books to show…

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WORLD Magazine names Paul Miller’s “J-Curve” Accessible Theology Book of the Year

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WORLD Magazine names Paul Miller’s “J-Curve” Accessible Theology Book of the Year Wheaton, Ill. (December 2, 2019) — Crossway is pleased to announce that Paul E. Miller’s book J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life (Crossway, June 2019) has won the 2019 WORLD Magazine Accessible Theology Book of the Year. “It’s so simple, it’s brilliant: The Christian life is shaped like a capital J. You descend on the left and rise on the right,” writes Marvin Olasky, WORLD Magazine’s…

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Two IVP titles named in WORLD Magazine’s 2019 Books of the Year issue

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Two IVP titles named in WORLD Magazine’s 2019 Books of the Year issue WESTMONT, IL – InterVarsity Press was honored to have two titles make the shortlist for WORLD Magazine’s 2019 Books of the Year. WORLD editor Marvin Olasky wrote, “Here’s our pick of vivid and insightful new releases for better understanding America, world events, history, science, and theology.” Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image was selected for the shortlist for WORLD’s science book of the year. In this book leprosy surgeon Dr. Paul Brand…

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WORLD Magazine names Cameron Cole’s “Therefore I Have Hope” Accessible Theology Book of the Year

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WORLD Magazine names Cameron Cole’s “Therefore I Have Hope” Accessible Theology Book of the Year WHEATON, Ill. (December 12, 2018)—Crossway is pleased to announce that Cameron Cole’s book Therefore I Have Hope: 12 Truths that Comfort, Sustain, and Redeem in Tragedy (Crossway, July 2018) has won the 2018 WORLD Magazine Accessible Theology Book of the Year. “Many Christian authors have produced tear-jerking books centered on a child’s death or a friend’s demise. It is good and right to cry about…

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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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Moody Publishers’ Title Prepare Featured in WORLD Newsgroup Books of the Year Issue

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Moody Publishers’ Title Prepare Featured in WORLD Newsgroup Books of the Year Issue  Each year WORLD Newsgroup appoints a book review team to choose titles they consider as ones that should be “chewed and digested.”  This year the committee of reviewers chose Prepare: Living Your Faith in an Increasingly Hostile Culture (Moody Publishers 2015) by Paul Nyquist, president of Moody Global Ministries, as Runner-Up in the Current Events/Public Affairs category.  The list of chosen titles will be featured in the Books of the Year issue on June…

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Weaver Book Company’s ‘EnGendered’ Selected for WORLD Magazine Book-of-the-Year Award

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Weaver Book Company’s ‘EnGendered’ Selected for WORLD Magazine Book-of-the-Year Award Publicity contact: Tara Miller, MillSpring Marketing tara@millspringmarketing.com 205.601.0258 Wooster, Ohio—Weaver Book Company is pleased to announce that EnGendered: God’s Gift of Gender Difference in Relationship by Sam Andreades has won WORLD Magazine’s 2015 Book-of-the-Year award for the Accessible Theology category. EnGendered offers a winsome theology of gender, making a needed contribution to a confused society.  In his former pastorate in New York City while striving to offer helpful counsel to individuals struggling with gender issues, Sam…

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Hollywood Screenwriter Pens Controversial Novel: Noah Primeval, Did God Wipe Out a Race of Giants with the Flood?

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Brian Godawa, the award-winning screenwriter of To End All Wars, says, “The most bizarre passage in the Bible that I never understood was Genesis 6:1-4 about what led up to the Great Flood. I mean, angels mating with humans and creating giants? What is that all about? Can that be real?” But when the author of the popular book Hollywood Worldviews studied the passage in depth, Godawa soon discovered that not only was it real, but it was an important narrative thread that weaves through the Bible all the way to King David. The Nephilim giants of the Bible have been a hot debate by scholars and religious leaders through history. In his research, Godawa found new insight into the ancient Near East that sheds light on this controversy.