InterVarsity Press and Urbana work together to help students discern their calling in a number of ways. For instance, IVP authors Sandra Van Opstal (Mission of Worship) and Lin (Pursuing God’s Call) will be keynote speakers for the conference. Twenty IVP authors will also serve as seminar speakers, track directors or part of the worship and performing arts teams.
InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce the launch of the IVP Pocket Reference app, IVP's first mobile technology endeavor. Based on the popular and comprehensive IVP Pocket Reference Series, the new app is now available for readers on the go using iPhones, iPods, iPads and Android phones and tablets.
InterVarsity Press authors Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith keynoted the second annual Aprentis Institute Conference on spiritual formation at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, last month. InterVarsity Press (IVP) cosponsored the sold-out event, along with the Aprentis Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation, Renovare and Christian Audio.
InterVarsity Press won the Crystal Book Award for book design presented by the Midwest Publishing Association (MPA) at the MPA's sixty-first annual Book and Media Show held on October 18 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. InterVarsity Press (IVP) took home three awards, including two honorable mentions, for "pushing the edges of publishing design."
Brenda Salter McNeil, Bethany Hoang, Amy Sherman and Luci Shaw were each named one of "50 Women to Watch" in Christianity Today’s October 2012 issue.
InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that Jon Boyd has been named digital communications manager. Boyd will be responsible for overseeing IVP's digital sales and marketing initiatives while supervising the in-house digital communications team.
Calvin Miller, pastor, professor and beloved storyteller, best known for The Singer Trilogy, a mythic retelling of the New Testament story in the spirit of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, passed away on the afternoon of August 19, 2012, due to complications after heart surgery. He was seventy-five.
InterVarsity Press received three awards in the 2012 Logos Book Awards presented in July at the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, Florida. Two IVP titles were named Best Book and Jeff Crosby, associate publisher and director of sales and marketing, was named Outstanding Sales Representative.
Twenty years after the release of the first volume in the IVP Bible Dictionary Series, InterVarsity Press is proud to announce the completion of the eight-volume reference set, whose comprehensive research has made a significant contribution to evangelical scholarship. With the June release of Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets, coverage of the biblical canon is now complete.
InterVarsity Press (IVP), a leading publisher in thoughtful Christian books, announces the launch of two new imprints—Praxis and Crescendo—designed to reach two of its most influential audiences: ministry leaders and women. In launching these lines, IVP plans to serve both industry gatekeepers and end readers in a more targeted and effective way. Praxis will launch in fall of 2012 while Crescendo is scheduled to launch in spring of 2013.