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Elmer John Thiessen
Elmer John Thiessen recently moved to Waterloo, Ontario, after retiring from teaching philosophy and religious studies at Medicine Hat College in Alberta for over thirty-five years. His official position now is that of a "roving philosopher," open to short-term teaching and research positions anywhere in the world. He is presently Research Professor of Education at Tyndale University College in Toronto. Thiessen received a BTh from the Mennonite Brethren Bible College in Winnipeg, a BA from the University of Saskatchewan with a major in physics and philosophy, and an MA in philosophy from McMaster University, after which he spent a year of study overseas in Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1980, writing his dissertation on the problem of indoctrination. Other teaching posts have included Waterloo Lutheran University early on in his teaching career, and more recently, one semester at Lithuania Christian College, and one semester at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven, Belgium. He has been a research reader/scholar/fellow during his four sabbaticals, at Mansfield College, Oxford, England; Stapleford Education Centre in England; and more recently the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He has published numerous articles and book reviews, both in professional journals and religious magazines. His research specialty has been the philosophy of education, a topic on which he has published two books, Teaching for Commitment and In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993 and 2001). Thiessen is a member of the Waterloo North Mennonite Church in Waterloo. While in Medicine Hat, he was a member of the Crestwood M.B. Church, serving the church in a variety of capacities including moderator, lay-minister and Sunday school teacher. He has also served as a board member of Concord College, and has given seminars and sermons in various churches and Christian colleges across Canada. Most recently, he served two years as a member of the Community Editorial Board of The Waterloo Region Record.
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Richard J. Goossen
Richard J. Goossen (PhD, Middlesex University) is a serial new venture founder, strategic advisor to high-growth and web-based companies, lawyer, researcher, author, professor, and professional public speaker. In the commercial sector, Goossen is senior relationship manager and strategic planning specialist for Covenant Family Wealth Advisors in Langley, British Columbia. Previously, he served as CEO of M & A Capital Corp. in Vancouver. Goossen also spent a number of years at Johnson, Stokes & Master, Hong Kong's largest law firm. In 1987, he was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and voluntarily withdrew his membership in 1993 to focus on entrepreneurial pursuits. In the educational sector, Goossen is director of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Transforming Business, a research and development center at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is sessional lecturer at Regent College in Vancouver and former associate professor in the school of business at a Christian university in Canada. In his nearly three decades as a professional public speaker, Goossen has made countless appearances at corporate, academic, and faith-based venues in Europe, North America, and Asia. Most recently, Goossen started the Entrepreneurial Leaders Organization, a British Columbia-based nonprofit with a vision to become the world's leading organization to equip, connect, and inspire entrepreneurial leaders. Goossen has written more than a hundred articles and five books, including ePreneur: From Wall Street to Wiki: Succeeding as a Crowdpreneur in the New Virtual Marketplace.
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Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch received the honorable mention award in the non-fiction religion category for Foreword Reviews' 2013 IndieFab Book of the Year Awards. Out of hundreds of titles submitted for the category, fourteen were named finalists, and Playing God was one of the four top winners.
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to congratulate art director David Fassett for his work on four designs that were chosen for 2017 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
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John Byron
John Byron (PhD, University of Durham) is professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. He previously served as a lecturer of New Testament and Greek at the University of Durham, as a teaching assistant at Jerusalem University College and as a youth pastor at Fountain of Life Christian Fellowship in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Desiring to serve both the church and the academy, he enjoys teaching at churches and seminars and frequently travels around the world to teach and research. He participates in Ashland Theological Seminary's Tel-Gezer project, which allows groups to tour Israel and excavate ancient sites. Byron's research and writing interests include New Testament and Christian origins, the Pauline epistles, history and literature of early Judaism, rewritten Bible, slavery in antiquity and archaeology and historical geography of Syro-Palestine.
His books include 1 and 2 Thessalonians (The Story of God Bible Commentary), Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry, Recent Research on Paul and Slavery and Slavery Metaphors in Early Judaism & Pauline Christianity. Byron's research has been recognized with several honors and widely published in academic journals. He has served the Eastern Great Lakes region of the Society of Biblical Literature in many roles, including vice president, president, executive secretary, and chair of the non-canonical Jewish and Christian writing section. He was also elected to membership in the Studorium Novi Testamenti Societas in 2012.
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The Gospel Coalition (TGC) has announced that Christianity at the Crossroads by Michael Kruger was chosen as one of its best books of 2018.
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The Conference on Christianity and Literature has announced that A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth by Michael Mears Bruner was chosen as the 2020 CCL Book of the Year for literary criticism.
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With nearly three hundred books reviewed each year between their academic journal Themelios and their regular book review section, The Gospel Coalition has chosen two IVP titles among its top twelve books of the year. The Gospel Coalition 2019 Book Awards went to He Descended to the Dead and A Big Gospel in Small Places.
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The Victory of the Cross by James R. Payton Jr. has won the 2020 Word Guild Award in the Academic Non-fiction category.
