Introducing IVP Authors

Donna Barber

Donna Barber is cofounder of The Voices Project, an organization that influences culture through training and promoting leaders of color, as well as the author of the new book Bread for the Resistance. She is also the director of Champions Academy, an initiative of the Portland Leadership Foundation that provides culturally responsive leadership development for student athletes. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Leroy, and their children.

• Follow her on Twitter: @urbanladybarber.
• Listen to her speak about Jesus, the shared bread of life.

Joshua Rasmussen

Joshua Rasmussen is associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. His new book How Reason Can Lead to God tells his own story of losing faith and how you can build a philosophical pathway to belief. He is also the author of Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth and Necessary Existence and he lives in Azusa, California, with his wife, Rachel, and their four children.

• Visit his website and ask him a question about faith at joshualrasmussen.org.
• Follow him on Twitter: @worldviewdesign.
• Watch his Youtube channel.

Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and author. In addition to her work covering religion in the United States and abroad, Falsani has written extensively about global poverty, AIDS and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and other issues affecting the developing world. She serves as a member of the advisory board for Girls and Women at the ONE Campaign and is the coeditor of the new book The End of Hunger.

• Follow her on Twitter: @godgrrl.
• Visit her website and read her blog at godgrrl.com.
• Watch interviews and videos of her reporting work.

As both writers and readers, IVP authors find inspiration in books that have shaped their faith and influenced their calling. Check out the IVP Bookshelf video series to hear what they're reading and why these books mean so much to them.