Book launch for Esau McCaulley “Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit.” @ivpkids

Congratulations to Sean Isaac Palmer (Taylor’s Version) on the release of “Speaking by the Numbers.” Here it is in a charming local Little Free Library®. The book is all about how to think about the Enneagram and your audience when teaching or preaching. Foreword by Suzanne Stabile InterVarsity Press

I grieve over reports from Buffalo, as they are burying the dead. I think of the church community in CA having to relearn what it means to feel safe. And I grieve over the terrible report of abuse in the SBC. I wonder, as the apostles in the boat did.

Come and work at IVP! InterVarsity Press is looking for a new trade editor with emphasis on acquiring and editing books by African American authors. ivpress.com/Media/Default/…

Welcome to InterVarsity Press Courtney Ellis 🎈

There’s a new editor on the InterVarsity Press trade publishing team. Welcome Nilwona Nowlin!

Wisdom posted on the bathroom wall from Jen Pollock Michel Apprentice Institute #tag22

“You pray to want to want to.” Jen Pollock Michel Apprentice Institute #tag22 InterVarsity Press

“We were made to make things. And we were made to make things of beauty.” Curt Thompson InterVarsity Press Apprentice Institute #tag22

You are being spiritually formed by your body whether you are aware of it or not. Tish Harrison Warren Apprentice Institute Formatio

Launch day for “Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest” by Ruth Haley Barton Transforming Center Discover the power of weekly sabbath and maybe even a sabbatical. Formatio InterVarsity Press

“No book is for everyone, but every book is for someone.” IVP editor Al Hsu quoted at our IVP author retreat.

No one is beyond hope—not you and not them, whoever they are. @rdhubbard #Urbana22

The acquisitions editors, project editors, and editorial managers gathered at my home for planning, scheming, and plotting today. Grateful for this team.

Malcolm Guite, poet-in-residence at “Lead While You Stand” conference: “When facing unknowns, poetry is helpful. Maybe poems are ways of knowing.” Thanks to Westmont College president Gayle Beebe for including a poet at a leadership conference. Mind and soul are both engaged.

“The good thing about reading is that it gives you less opportunity to pursue vice.” Westmont College president Gayle Beebe in dialogue with David Brooks on teaching virtue.

“When you are listening to someone’s story, you are not only listening but helping them create it” David Brooks Westmont College

The InterVarsity Press trade team welcomes Ted Olsen as Associate Publisher and Editorial Director for Media and Trade Books. Ted was formerly executive editor at CT for 27 years. Here’s the team, minus associate editor, Nilwona Nowlin.