2015 Press Releases
Filmspotting Co-Host Signs Book Contract with InterVarsity Press
Josh Larsen, co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting, has signed a contract with InterVarsity Press for a book about movies as prayer to be released in Fall 2017.
Andy Le Peau Announces 2016 Retirement from InterVarsity Press
After four decades of working on hundreds of books, Andy Le Peau, associate publisher for editorial at InterVarsity Press, has announced he will be retiring in February 2016. Le Peau has worked with respected authors like Rebecca Manley Pippert, N.T. Wright, Tom Oden, Christena Cleveland, Gary Haugen, Andy Crouch, Ken Bailey and countless others.
Twelve InterVarsity Press Authors to Speak at the Apprentice Gathering
InterVarsity Press will be partnering with Apprentice Institute and Renovaré for the annual Apprentice Gathering October 8–10 at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. A dozen IVP authors will be featured speakers at the event.
InterVarsity Press Receives Three Logos Book of the Year Awards
InterVarsity Press was honored with three 2015 Book of the Year awards by the Association of Logos Bookstores during its annual convention in June for Teach Us to Want, Renaissance, and The Good Shepherd.
IVP Author Appointed as Director of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School
InterVarsity Press author Christena Cleveland has been appointed as associate professor of the practice of reconciliation and as the director of the Center for Reconciliation (CFR) at Duke Divinity School effective July 1. Cleveland is the author of Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart.
IVP Author, "Folk Theologian" and Legendary Singer-Songwriter Garth Hewitt Starts US Tour
Legendary singer-songwriter and IVP author Garth Hewitt will be touring the United States April 29 through May 17. He will be performing and speaking in Tennessee, North Carolina and New Mexico. Hewitt is the author of Occupied Territories: The Revolution of Love from Bethlehem to the Ends of the Earth.
IVP Receives Awards for Teach Us to Want, True Paradox and Visions of Vocation
The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and Foreword Reviews recently honored three InterVarsity Press titles as finalists for book awards. Teach Us to Want by Jen Pollock Michel was a finalist in the 2015 Christian Book Award® Program from ECPA in the category of new author. True Paradox by David Skeel and Visions of Vocation by Steven Garber were finalists in Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards in the non-fiction religion category.
IVP to Publish CaringBridge Cancer Journey of Steve and Sharol Hayner
Steve Hayner was healthy and fit and serving as president of Columbia Seminary when he found out he had pancreatic cancer. He and his wife, Sharol, embarked on a journey together with their children that soon included tens of thousands of visits from friends and acquaintances via CaringBridge. The overwhelming response to their posts on this website attested to the surprising and engaging way that they chose to live in the face of death. In the fall of 2015 InterVarsity Press will be releasing a compilation of those posts in the book Joy in the Journey: Finding Abundance in the Shadow of Death by Steve and Sharol Hayner.
IVP Author Wins Templeton Prize
IVP author Jean Vanier has been awarded the Templeton Prize, valued at $1.7 million. Vanier is the author, with Stanley Hauerwas, of Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness, and the founder of L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without learning disabilities experience life together as fellow human beings who share a mutuality of care and need. Started in 1964, L'Arche, French for "The Ark," now includes 147 communities in 35 nations and 1,500 Faith and Light support groups in 82 nations.
Preaching Magazine Recognizes IVP Titles As Year's Best for Preachers
Preaching magazine included three InterVarsity Press titles among its lists of "The Year's Best Books for Preachers" and the "Top Books on Preaching."
