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Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
18 Nov 2025

Called to Care: A Conversation with Jo Knight on Faith, Justice & Creation Care

Jo Knight shares the heart behind Called to Care, exploring how Christians can respond with hope, justice, and faithful action in a world facing climate ...

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18 Apr 2019

A Voice to Be Heard

Theological educator Richard Higginson and former retail entrepreneur Kina Robertshaw have worked together to showcase fifty Christian entrepreneurs in their book A Voice to Be ...

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8 Aug 2019

What is Economic Justice? and What Does the Bible Have to Say About It?

What does economic justice have to do with Scripture? Economist, theologian, and church minister Andrew Hartropp is convinced that from Scripture, God loves justice. He believes that the roots of economic justice are found in God and in his character and it is vital then that we explore Scripture and let it re-shape the way we live. In the ...

Tom Creedy
10 May 2021

Food for the Journey: Confident. Keswick gold from 1965 to 2014

The Keswick Convention has been enjoying God and digging in to His Word for years - the latest Food for the Journey mines some recent talks to inspire us to confident ...

Tom Creedy
23 Jul 2021

Wolves and Shepherds: why we need to talk about abuse in order to welcome young people in our churches

In this guest blog post, Pete Nicholas shares why he thinks we can't ignore the issue of abuse, and why it's a missional imperative for reaching emerging ...

29 Jun 2018

Why Do We Need MORE >?

Elizabeth Neep works as a Commissioning Editor for IVP and SPCK as well as a Publicist for all SPCK imprints – a dual role that means she’s rarely at the end of her to-do list! Outside of work she is a writer and painter and can often be found having a glass of wine in the garden with her housemates in London Bridge. Here, she chats ...

29 Jun 2018

Youth Ministry that’s Genuinely Relevant without Faking It

There’s a classic episode of The Simpsons where Ned Flanders, the show’s exorbitantly cheesy Christian stereotype, runs a Bible study in his home. The group has one teenager – an air-headed bully called Jimbo. In order to keep the study relevant to Jimbo, Ned keeps throwing in techy terms, ‘Now let us download the holy tweet ...

20 Aug 2018

The curse of ‘It’s never worked before’

Tim Gough is on our blog today, discussing how you can improve your ministry with a simple shift in your ...

2 Jan 2019

Recognise confirmation bias and then focus on positive thinking

We recently ran a poll on Twitter asking you what you’d like to see on our blog in the New Year. We asked you to pick either content about daily devotionals or overcoming adversity. The majority of participants chose overcoming adversity, which is a great way to reframe our thinking for the New Year. Daily devotionals is also a worthy topic, ...

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3 May 2019

The Last Things

Author David A Höhne introduces his new book, The Last Things, with an specially selected excerpt and asks engaging discussion ...

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16 May 2019

Throwback Thursday: Power in Positive Thinking

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we are throwing it back to when A New Day author Emma Scrivener wrote on mental health, positive thinking, overcoming adversity through faith, especially in the digital era of social ...

29 Oct 2019

Why Does the Reformation Matter?

Why Does the Reformation Matter? What was it all about? How is it still relevant to us today, in a world built on instant access to information and ...

30 Oct 2019

Reading the Bible as a foreigner

David Firth, prolific IVP/Apollos author and Tutor in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, discusses how his personal experience has shaped the way he has read scripture. This blog post is an edited extract from his new book, Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former ...

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14 Feb 2020

Love Means Love?

In this post for Valentines Day our Digital Marketing Editor Tom ponders a slogan dogmatically repeated in our culture today, interrogating some of ideas that float around in our culture. What on earth is being said by Love Means Love? ...

8 Apr 2020

What's Stopping Us?

First published in IDEA magazine, Gavin Calver invites us to consider stepping out of our comfort zone and being the church fully ...

24 Apr 2020

Guest Post: Adrenaline Hangover

In this guest blog post, Will Van Der Hart, pastoral chaplain at HTB and author (with Dr Rob Waller) of a number of books, considers how the current pandemic could be seen as something of an Adrenalin ...

20 Jul 2020

Remembering J. I. Packer - 1926-2020

With the news that J. I. Packer has gone home, we share a few tributes, resources and memories of this giant of ...

11 Aug 2020

Living as Resident Aliens?

In this edited extract from his Gateway Seven study on 1 Peter, Joe Warton invites us to think about what it means to live as 'resident ...

6 Aug 2020

A Better Hope: Christ's Body, Our Bodies

In this edited extract from A Better Hope, Sam Allberry considers the practical meaning of Christ's resurrection body for us both now and in the ...

1 Sept 2020

What have our Idols ever done for Us?

In this edited extract from his forthcoming 'Here Are Your Gods!', Chris Wright challenges us to consider why we put so much hope in fallible people, fallen ideas, and sinful ...

9 Sept 2020

Nations Under God?

Chris Wright pulls no punches in this blog post, as he ponders the danger of linking the name of God to national ...

3 Oct 2020

Identity Politics

In this edited extract from Why Trust the Bible? Amy Orr-Ewing opens up the complex subject of identity ...

14 Oct 2020

A Poet You Should Know: Phillis Wheatley

In this blog post we highlight Phillis Wheatley, a poet whose story provides a challenging snapshot of what it means to engage with Black ...

Tom Creedy
17 Nov 2020

Calvinist or Arminian?

In this short extract from his new book, Sin and Grace, Tony Lane ponders what it means to read the Bible through Calvinist or Arminian ...

Tom Creedy
6 Jul 2021

No Place for God? Civility and Cancel Culture

Author and pastor Pete Nicholas ponders if our 'cancel culture' is redeemable or ...

Tom Creedy
24 May 2022

W. E. Sangster: British Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate the launch of our new Apollos title, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP resources. ...

Tom Creedy
12 Jun 2022

James Denney: British Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate the launch of our new Apollos title, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP resources. ...

Tom Creedy
22 Jul 2022

J. I. Packer: British Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate the launch of our new Apollos title, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP resources. ...

Tom Creedy
30 Aug 2022

Thomas F. Torrance: British Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate the launch of our new Apollos title, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP resources. ...

Tom Creedy
8 Dec 2022

Lesslie Newbigin: Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate the launch of our recent Apollos collection, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP ...

Tom Creedy
20 Dec 2022

Martyn Lloyd-Jones: British Evangelical Theologian of the Twentieth Century

To celebrate our recent Apollos title, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century, we are sharing brief biographical sketches drawn from classic IVP resources. ...

Tom Creedy
11 Aug 2022

An Interview with Paul Overland

To mark the publication of the latest volume in the Apollos Old Testament Commentary, we asked author of the entry on Proverbs, a few ...

Laura Barry
31 Oct 2022

Guest Blog Post: Why the Church Needs Reformation and Revival

Andrew Fellows, author of Smuggling Jesus Back Into The Church, explores why the church needs reformation and ...

Laura Barry
3 Nov 2022

BOOK LAUNCH: Smuggling Jesus Back Into the Church - 11th November, 8pm

Join us for a launch of Andrew Fellows’ new book, Smuggling Jesus Back Into the Church, on 11th November, 8 pm, in person or on ...

Tom Creedy
13 Dec 2022

Guest Post: Can Women be Trusted in Leadership?

A recent longer BBC article prompted our guest poster Susan Tailby to ponder the question: can women be trusted in ...

Charisa Gunasekera
6 Mar 2023

Life in the Son: Exploring Participation and Union with Christ in John’s Gospel and Letters

Clive Bowsher's Life in the Son, the latest NSBT, is the first book-length treatment of the theme of union with Christ across the Johannine corpus, interpreting oneness and ‘in-one-another’ relationship with Christ in John’s Gospel and letters. Read this short extract to find out ...

Charisa Gunasekera
20 Apr 2023

An Interview with the editors of the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, 2nd Edition

To celebrate the publication of the second edition of the Dictionary of Paul and His Letter, IVP interviewed editors Scot McKnight, Lynn Cohick and Nijay Gupta. Read the full conversation here. ...

Tom Creedy
15 Apr 2024

Announcing a New Editor for the Apollos Old Testament Commentary

We are delighted to announce a new co-editor for our high-level Old Testament commentary series, the Apollos Old Testament Commentary. Read on to find out ...

Tom Creedy
29 Apr 2024

The IVP May 2024 Releases

We are really excited to share with you three new books - each in their own way breaking new ground for ...

Laura Barry
23 Jul 2024

Paul Mallard at UFM Summer Conference 2024

Paul Mallard will be leading the UFM Summer Conference 2024. Scroll down to learn more about Paul Mallard and the conference ...

Laura Barry
22 Jul 2024

IVP Authors at Creation Fest 2024

Discover the amazing IVP authors speaking at Creation Fest this year - Dr Andy Bannister, Dr Amy Orr-Ewing and Phil ...

Tom Creedy
1 Oct 2024

The IVP Autumn 2024 Releases

The IVP Autumn 2024 ReleasesWe’ve got seven (or possibly 8!) exciting releases over the final season of 2024 – read on to find out more about them. The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus Christian revival in Iran is spreading across the world. In this title, Phil Moore explores the particular form of this revival – The Forgotten Manifesto ...

Laura Barry
23 Jun 2025

IVP Authors at EMA 2025: Preaching, Theology, and the Local Church

Join IVP authors at EMA 2025 as they equip pastors and leaders in preaching, gospel-shaped leadership, and engaging faithfully with ...

Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
15 Sept 2025

London Book Launch: The Gratitude Way by Girma Bishaw

Join us on 6th October at Westminster Chapel, London, as Girma Bishaw launches The Gratitude Way—a powerful call to live with gratitude that heals, reconciles, and brings ...