January 2026 | LISLE, IL—InterVarsity Press (IVP) is thrilled to announce the honoring of two IVP titles in the 2025 Englewood Readers’ Best Awards. Beauty and Resistance: Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair received an honorable mention and Remissioning Church: A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life won the overall award.
The Englewood Review of Books was launched in 2008 with a mission of “covering books related to the themes of community, mission, imagination, and reconciliation, and hope.” They champion a way of reading that is “driven by an attentiveness to the communities in which we are embedded: church, family, neighborhood, workplace.”
The 2025 Englewood Readers’ Best Awards celebrates the highest-ranking favorite books among Englewood readers for books with an initial publication in 2025.
Written by pastor Josh Hayden, Remissioning Church offers practical tools and field-tested methods for church leaders to resurrect their congregations. Hayden runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks. He is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia.
In Beauty and Resistance, Jonathan P. Walton provides the spiritual scaffolding needed to sustain both interior formation and outward engagement. Walton introduces practices and frameworks for a rooted life, where the pursuit of justice flows from a place of authentic restfulness, not reactivity.
Walton leads Beauty and Resistance Cohorts, writes The Crux on Substack, and is a senior resource specialist for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship focusing on political discipleship and civic engagement. He has written five books, including Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive.
The Englewood Review of Books is published by Englewood Christian Church, located on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. From fall 2010 to spring 2020, Englewood published a quarterly print magazine.
For a complete list of IVP award-winning titles, visit https://www.ivpress.com/award-winners.
Contact: Eva Pankratz, epankratz@ivpress.com
