IV Staff Authors

Deborah Meyer Abbs

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:58:17 GMT

Deborah Meyer Abbs works as a freelance blogger and as a disability ministry coordinator for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Illinois and Indiana. She is a coauthor of Life on the Spectrum: Faith. Hope. Love. Autism.

Jay Anderson

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:36:38 GMT

Jay Anderson is a senior campus staff worker for InterVarsity at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He lives with his wife and kids in Eau Claire.

Cameron J. Anderson

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:34:09 GMT

Cameron J. Anderson (MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art) is an artist, associate director of Upper House, and former executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). Prior to joining CIVA, he served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for thirty years, most recently as the national director of Graduate and Faculty Ministries. He is the author of The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts and the coeditor of Faith and Vision: Twenty-Five Years of Christians in the Visual Arts.

Listen to Anderson's conversation with Makoto Fujimura on The Upwords Podcast.

Donald Baker

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:42:00 GMT

Baker is pastor of First Reformed Church of Doon, Iowa, and Bethel Reformed Church of Lester, Iowa. He formerly served as a staff member with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

Kristie Berglund

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:37:06 GMT

Kristie Berglund holds an M.Div. from Fuller Seminary and a M.A. in theological studies from Regent College. Formerly an employee of InterVarsity Press, she currently resides in Southern California, where she is preparing for pastoral ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Scott A. Bessenecker

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:21:03 GMT

Scott Bessenecker is associate director for missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and author of several books, including The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor. He sends more than two thousand students each year on short-term mission experiences in a number of urban poor locations around the world. Scott's blog, The Least of These, is at urbana.org/blogs/least-these.

Drew Blankman

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:06:59 GMT

Drew Blankman, a telecommuter from Southern California, is an associate editor for electronic publishing at InterVarsity Press. Drew holds an MA in systematic theology from Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, and is the coeditor of the Pocket Dictionary of North American Denominations.

Kevin Blue

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:02:50 GMT

Kevin Blue wants his life to matter, and he's figured out where to start. Living in the heart of Los Angeles, he leads college students through experiences in urban ministry and on international treks to serve the poorest parts of the world. Kevin is a director with Servant Partners, which eschews comfort and dwells among the outcast. He is an elder at the multiethnic Church of the Redeemer in south central Los Angeles, focusing on racial reconciliation, compassion and justice.

Amy Brooke

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:02:52 GMT

Brooke has her masters degreen in counseling and works for the county in Illinois where she lives. Previously she was a staff member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, serving a student chapter at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. She frequently writes for Student Leadership Journal.

Cindy Bunch

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:42:14 GMT

Cindy Bunch is a divisional vice president and associate publisher for InterVarsity Press, where she has worked for more than thirty years. She acquires and develops for the Formatio line of spiritual formation books. She is the author of Be Kind to Yourself as well as several Bible study guides in IVP's LifeGuide^® Bible Studies series.

Cindy holds an MA in theological studies from Northern Seminary and completed her spiritual direction training at North Park Seminary. She and her husband live in the Chicago suburbs.

Read Cindy's article "Spiritual Formation and Books: Reading as a Spiritual Practice."

Carolyn Carney

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:03:06 GMT

Carolyn Carney is the national director of spiritual formation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She has a master of arts in spiritual formation and leadership from Spring Arbor University and serves as a spiritual director and retreat leader. She has led prayer groups and intercessory prayer training for more than thirty-five years. Carolyn lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with her husband, David, and their exceptional dog, Keeley.

Read her article "2 Simple Ways to Revitalize Your Church with Group Prayer."

Robbie Fox Castleman

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:43:35 GMT

Robbie Fox Castleman (DMin, University of Dubuque) is professor of biblical studies and theology at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She previously served for several years as a staff member with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, specializing in ministry to graduate students at campuses in and around Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author of the Fisherman Bible Guides Miracles, Elijah, David and King David (Shaw/Waterbrook), and the IVP Connect LifeGuide Bible Study Peter, and she is a contributor to the book For All the Saints (Knox/Westminster).

Peter Cha

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:54:26 GMT

Peter Cha is associate professor of pastoral theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He received his graduate training in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv and ThM) and received his doctorate in religion in society and personality from Northwestern University.

He previously served as a campus staff member with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and as a youth pastor, church planter, and senior pastor. His publications include chapters in Following Jesus without Dishonoring Your Parents (InterVarsity Press), as well as articles in Korean Americans and Their Religions (Pennsylvania State University Press), Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (Zondervan), and This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity and Christian Faith (Oxford University Press).

Sabrina S. Chan

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:11:59 GMT

Sabrina S. Chan, a daughter of immigrants from Hong Kong, is national director of Asian American Ministries for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. She is an ordained minister and earned a master's degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Read a conversation on Asian American identity and faith with the authors of Learning Our Names.

James Choung

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:28:44 GMT

James Choung (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) is vice president of strategy and innovation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. He has been in campus ministry for over twenty-five years and previously served as InterVarsity's national director of evangelism. He is the author of True Story and Real Life, and he speaks frequently at campuses, churches, and conferences. Ordained with the Association of Vineyard Churches, he previously served on the pastoral staff of a Boston-area urban church plant, a megachurch in Seoul, and a house church in Los Angeles.

View the video of James's gospel presentation or download the video or audio.

Rodney R. Clapp

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:43:43 GMT

Until spring 1999, Rodney R. Clapp was senior editor for academic and general books at InterVarsity Press. He was formerly an associate editor for Christianity Today, and he has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Family Ministry and Marriage Partnership. His essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Christianity Today, Regeneration Quarterly, and Books and Culture. Clapp is now an editor with Brazos Press, a new imprint of Baker Book House.

Chandra Crane

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:47:14 GMT

Chandra Crane (MA, Reformed Theological Seminary) is the mixed ministry coordinator for the multiethnic initiatives department of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and has written for In All Things, The Well, and The Witness: A Black Christian Collective. Growing up in a multiethnic/multicultural family in the Southwest and now happily transplanted to the Deep South, Chandra is passionate about diversity and family and is a member of the multiethnic Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi.

Chandra is married to Kennan, a civil engineer, and they have two spunky daughters. She is a fan of hot tea, crossword puzzles, Converse shoes, and science fiction. She thoroughly enjoys reading, napping, and defying stereotypes.

Orlando Crespo

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:11:57 GMT

Orlando Crespo is national director of InterVarsity Latino Fellowship (LAFE). He has worked with InterVarsity since 1987, first as a campus staff member at Hunter College and City College in New York City, New York, and then as an area director for a group of colleges in New York City. He was one of the founders of New Life in the Bronx Church, and he still serves there as an associate pastor. He is currently working on a graduate degree in theology.

Myron Crockett

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:36:41 GMT

Myron Crockett was an InterVarsity staffworker for nine years at University of New Orleans and Tulane University. The former director of the Katrina Relief Urban Plunge, he is now a graduate student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter.

Beau Crosetto

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:17:23 GMT

Beau Crosetto loves helping people connect to and share Jesus right where they are. He has a MA in evangelism and leadership from Wheaton College and is the founder of the missional blog Release the APE. Beau works with students in college fraternities and sororities through the Greek ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where he also serves as the Greater Los Angeles Director in charge of starting new Greek InterVarsity chapters on college campuses. Beau lives with his wife Kristina and their two children and has partnered in planting the church Vineyard Underground in Los Angeles.

Read more about Beau's ministry on his missional blog releasetheape.com.

Watch Beau Crosetto on evangelism, context, being bold and more.