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Best-selling author and Christian publishing icon Stephen E. Strang releases new book

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

“Trump Aftershock” Explores the President’s Seismic Impact on Culture, Uncovers Unreported Facts and Helps Readers See What the Unconventional President Has Accomplished

ORLANDO, Fla.—For more than two years, the nation has witnessed an around-the-clock, unrelenting attack on President Donald Trump’s character, motives, and intelligence while his accomplishments with the economy, jobs, taxes, foreign policy, the military and border security are generally ignored and misrepresented.

The reason? Many, especially in mainstream media, are still experiencing the seismic aftershocks of Trump’s election.

In his new book, “Trump Aftershock,” best-selling author and Christian publisher Stephen E. Strang says it appears much of the time that the media’s focus is predicated almost entirely on talking points and broadsides supplied by the Democratic National Convention.

Strang cites Breitbart writer John Nolte in “Trump Aftershock,” who says, “What we have here is more proof that the media are no longer able to sway public opinion or move the needle.”

In fact, Strang notes, Trump’s job approval rating of 49 percent as of Nov. 1 can be compared to how Americans feel about the media. More than two-thirds (69 percent) say their trust in the media has decreased over the past decade, while 62 percent of U.S. adults believe the news they see in newspapers, on television or hear on the radio is biased; 44 percent say it’s inaccurate. Polling was conducted over the past few months by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.

The way most media report the news, it would seem that no one is satisfied or happy, and everyone wants drastic change. But, according to those he’s talked to and interviewed since the 2016 presidential election, Strang says that simply isn’t true.

“For more than half a century, since at least the end of the Second World War, surveys have shown that what most Americans really want is peace and prosperity,” Strang writes in “Trump Aftershock.” “By the end of his second year in the White House, most Americans believed Donald Trump has delivered on his promises. Income levels have risen steadily, taxes are lower, the nation is in no immediate danger of war, and living standards in the U.S. are some of the best in the world. Is this enough to garner a vote for more of the same at the midterm elections? We’ll know tonight.”

New York Times best-selling author Mike Huckabee, host of “Huckabee” on TBN, reinforces Strang’s points in his foreword to “Trump Aftershock.”

“If I wrote a theme song for the Left that captured their frenzied behavior over the last two years, I would definitely title it ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’” Huckabee said. “From special counsels with bogus cases built on an unverified ‘dossier’ to social media censorship of conservative voices to liberal bullies who attack administration members—including my own daughter—in public, no one is immune to the tension. Americans feel like watching the news has become a front-row seat to the battle for our nation’s very soul.

“Among the mainstream media very little credit is given to the president for his accomplishments and his unwavering stand for conservative values and freedoms,” he continued, “but this important book sets the record straight about President Trump and provides insights into the spiritual aspects of Trump’s presidency as well.”

Out today—an important Election Day for the future of the nation—“Trump Aftershock” explores the “president’s seismic impact on culture and faith in America” and will uncover unreported facts while objectively helping readers understand what the nation’s most unlikely and unconventional president has accomplished, including a featured section on these advancements called “500 Days of American Greatness.”

Stephen E. Strang is the best‐selling author of “God and Donald Trump,” which was brandished by the president during his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2018. The CEO and founder of Charisma Media, Strang was voted by Time magazine as one of the most influential Evangelicals in America. He has traveled to more than 50 countries, has interviewed four U.S. presidents, and has been featured on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBN, Dr. James Dobson’s “Family Talk” and The Daily Caller.

“Trump Aftershock” is published by FrontLine, an imprint of Charisma House, which has published books that challenge, encourage, teach and equip Christians, including 14 New York Times best-sellers.

To interview Stephen E. Strang, author of “Trump Aftershock,” contact Deborah Hamilton, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, 610.584.1096, ext. 102, or Jeff Tolson, ext. 108.

 

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Tyndale author Laura Gallier wins 2018 Christy Award™ for Young Adult novel “The Delusion”

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

Photo by KristenFields.com

CAROL STREAM, Ill.— November 8, 2018— Tyndale House Publishers is pleased to announce that Laura Gallier won the 2018 Christy Award™ (www.ChristyAwards.com) in the Young Adult category. Her novel, The Delusion, published under Tyndale’s new YA imprint, Wander, is a heart-pounding journey through the truth and delusion of spiritual warfare.

On November 7, 2018, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) hosted the 19th annual Christy Award™ Gala at Lipscomb University’s Shamblin Theatre in Nashville, Tenn. The ceremony was hosted by bestselling Christian authors Francine Rivers, Charles Martin, Carla Laureano, and Cynthia Ruchti.

The Christy Award™ celebrates excellence in the art of Christian fiction and honors the power of faith in story.

Linda Howard, associate publisher of Tyndale children and youth titles, shared, “We are thrilled and honored to have our first book under our new YA imprint, Wander, receive a prestigious Christy Award. It was our pleasure and privilege to attend the gala in Nashville in support of both the Christys and our author.”

For more information on Tyndale titles, please visit www.tyndale.com.

The Christy Award™ is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999 and is named for Catherine Marshall’s novel, Christy, which has sold over 10 million copies since its publication in 1967. ECPA assumed ownership and administration of the award in 2017 to focus and grow the unique opportunity of fiction in Christian publishing. ChristyAwards.com 

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) is an international nonprofit trade organization comprised of member companies that are involved in the publishing and distribution of Christian content worldwide. Since 1974, ECPA has strengthened Christian publishing by building networking, information, and advocacy opportunities within the industry and throughout multiple channels so that our members can more effectively produce and deliver transformational Christian content. ECPA.org 

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.

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IVP Art Director honored with three 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press is pleased to congratulate art director David Fassett for his work on three designs that were chosen for 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). Judges chose nineteen books and two Bible projects to represent the year’s best designs.

The Top Shelf Award program is managed by ECPA in order to recognize design excellence in the Christian publishing industry. “A well-designed cover tells the story of a book in a single frame, drawing the prospective reader to look inside,” said Stan Jantz, president of ECPA. “The 21 Top Shelf Award winners represent not just artistic excellence, but artistic storytelling at its most elemental level. Congratulations to the designers and publishers of these outstanding book covers.”

Fassett’s award-winning cover designs include

  • Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age by Alan Noble
  • After the Trip: Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience by Cory Trenda and Tim Dearborn
  • Developing Clinicians of Character: A Christian Integrative Approach to Clinical Supervision by Terri S. Watson

Fassett joined InterVarsity Press (IVP) as a marketing designer in 2009 and was promoted to senior graphic designer in 2014. He was appointed to the position of art director in May 2017. Fassett’s other award-winning book covers include Death Before the Fall, The Decalogue, Recapturing the Wonder, Introduction to Political Science, Embodied Hope and The Radical Pursuit of Rest.

“We couldn’t be happier to see the strong response to the design work of David Fassett,”said Lorraine Caulton, director of creative and customer engagement at IVP. “In his second year as art director David continues to stretch our imagination with his design skills. His work inspires all of us and makes marketing books that fulfill the mission of IVP that much easier.”

ECPA announced the winners of this year’s awards on November 6 at Lipscomb University in Nashville during the opening session of ECPA PubU. Winning book covers are featured atTopShelfAwards.org.

To learn more about IVP’s art department visit their Instagram account at instagram.com/ivp_design.

Founded in 1947 as an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press serves those in the university, the church, and the world by publishing thoughtful Christian books that equip and encourage people to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord in all of life. For more information, visit ivpress.com.

Contact: Krista Clayton | 630.734.4013 | kclayton@ivpress.com

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Tyndale author Chris Fabry inducted into Christy Award™ Hall of Fame

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

Photo by KristenFields.com

CAROL STREAM, Ill.— November 8, 2018— Tyndale House Publishers is pleased to announce that five-time Christy Award™–winning author Chris Fabry was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame. The 2018 Christy Award Gala was held on November 7 in Nashville’s Shamblin Theatre at Lipscomb University. Authors who have received four or more Christy Awards are inducted into The Christy Award™ Hall of Fame. This is the highest author honor of The Christy Award program, recognizing the author’s legacy and contributions to Christian fiction.

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) hosted the 19th annual Christy Award™ Gala with the program presented by bestselling Christian authors Francine Rivers, Charles Martin, Carla Laureano, and Cynthia Ruchti. The Christy Award™ celebrates excellence in the art of Christian fiction and honors the power of faith in story. In attendance for The Christy Award Gala were nearly 200 industry professionals, authors, writers, and publishers, honoring this year’s best Christian fiction.

Karen Watson, publisher of Tyndale fiction, shared, “We are always delighted when the excellent work of our authors is recognized. Tyndale’s long-term investment in bringing impactful stories and skilled, God-gifted authors to the marketplace is an important part of our mission. Chris Fabry has been an integral part of achieving this mission at Tyndale.”

Chris Fabry is an award-winning author and radio personality who hosts the daily program Chris Fabry Live on Moody Radio. He is also heard on Love Worth Finding, Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman, and other radio programs. A 1982 graduate of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University and a native of West Virginia, Chris and his wife, Andrea, now live in Arizona and are the parents of nine children.

Chris’s novels, which include Dogwood, June Bug, Almost Heaven, Not in the Heart, Borders of the Heart, Every Waking Moment, The Promise of Jesse Woods, Looking into You, and his latest release, Under a Cloudless Sky, have won five Christy Awards, an ECPA Christian Book Award, and two Christianity Today Book Awards of Merit, but it’s his lyrical prose and tales of redemption that keep readers returning for more.

Chris has also published more than 70 other books, ranging from nonfiction and film novelizations, including the recent bestseller War Room, to novels for children and young adults. He coauthored the Left Behind: The Kids series with Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, as well as the Red Rock Mysteries and The Wormling series with Jerry B. Jenkins. RPM is his latest series for kids and explores the exciting world of NASCAR.

For more information on Tyndale fiction titles, please visit www.tyndale.com.

The Christy Award™ is the foremost award honoring and promoting excellence in Christian fiction since 1999, and is named for Catherine Marshall’s novel Christy, which has sold over 10 million copies since its publication in 1967. ECPA assumed ownership and administration of the award in 2017 to focus and grow the unique opportunity of fiction in Christian publishing. ChristyAwards.com

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) is an international nonprofit trade organization comprised of member companies that are involved in the publishing and distribution of Christian content worldwide. Since 1974, ECPA has strengthened Christian publishing by building networking, information, and advocacy opportunities within the industry and throughout multiple channels so that our members can more effectively produce and deliver transformational Christian content. ECPA.org

Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people.

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Tyndale House Publishers’ “Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey” awarded Top Shelf Award for design from ECPA 

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

CAROL STREAM, ILL (November 9, 2018) – The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has recognized the reimagining of Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey by Hannah Hurnard as a recipient of the 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award. ECPA announced the winners of the 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award earlier this week at Lipscomb University during the opening session of ECPA PubU.  ECPA’s Stan Jantz and Pete Peterson, of Nashville-based The Rabbit Room, announced the winning covers among 225 Christian publishing professionals gathered for the event. The book was released by Tyndale House Publishers (@TyndaleHouse) as part of its Living Expressions Collection in November 2017. (Each winning cover may be viewed at https://topshelfawards.org/winners-2018, including comments made by judges and designers.)

“Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey is an exceptional work-of-art in its own right,” said Becky Brandvik, Sr. Director, Tyndale Gift & Specialty.  “Tyndale’s team of designers and illustrators did an excellent job of reimagining Hannah Hurnard’s literary classic using watercolor paintings, woodland-themed Scripture art, and antique-tinted photography.  Hinds’ Feet on High Places is a story of endurance, persistence, and reliance on God.  This special edition of the book, which is the first release in a series of visual journeys, becomes a canvas on which the reader can chronicle the struggles and triumphs of her own personal story.  Hinds’ Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey is part of Tyndale’s Living Expressions Collection, a gift line that invites readers to explore God’s Word and express their creativity in ways that are refreshing to the spirit and restorative to the soul.”

Members of the design team that worked on the project include Jen Phelps (designer), Jill De Haan and Rachel McNaughton (illustrators), as well as Jennifer Ghionzoli (art director).

Since its founding in 1962, Tyndale House Publishers has been a voice to trust for generations of readers. Today, Tyndale is one of the largest independent Christian publishers in the world. Tyndale’s mission is to make the Bible accessible to as many people as possible in language that they can relate and respond to. Tyndale publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT) and offers nonfiction books that equip readers with Christ-centered insight, counsel, and life-improving stories. In addition, Tyndale publishes fiction from fresh new voices and celebrated authors alike, capturing the imagination of millions of readers. With a deep understanding of the importance of nurturing future generations, Tyndale also publishes children’s products that make God’s Word and wisdom come alive. Tyndale’s independent status allows it to follow its founding model, giving a majority of annual revenue—more than $100 million throughout its history—to charitable missions. With every book purchased, Tyndale readers help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world.

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Lysa TerKeurst unveils new book on Today Show, Nov. 8

November 10, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way Releases Nov. 13

Nashville, TN — #1 New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst was interviewed on NBC’s TODAY show on Thursday, November 9. TerKeurst shared stories with co-hosts Dylan Dreyer and Jenna Bush Hager from her new book, It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered (Nelson Books). Later that day, Religion News Service published an exclusive interview with the author. The book releases nationwide on November 13.

Additional national media coverage confirmed for the book launch includes:

  • Print: First for Women, Publisher’s Weekly, Mature Living, Called Magazine
  • Television: Life Today, CBN’s 700 Club, TBN’s Praise
  • Radio: Dave Ramsey Show, Focus on the Family, Keep the Faith, New Life Live
  • Online: FoxNews.com, Guideposts.com, ChristianPost.com, Charisma.com, Crosswalk.com

Lysa’s new book recounts the truth about her own fears, pain, tears and faith. In the end, she has found God is good at being God, even when – especially when – circumstances are not at all what we expected or even wanted.

Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times bestselling author of Uninvited and The Best Yes. She writes from her sticky farm table and lives with her family in North Carolina. Connect with her at www.LysaTerKeurst.com.

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About Thomas Nelson:  Thomas Nelson, part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc., is a world-leading provider of Christian content and has been providing readers with quality inspirational product for more than 200 years. The publishing group provides multiple formats of award-winning Bibles, books, gift books, cookbooks, curriculum and digital content, with distribution of its products in more than 100 countries. Thomas Nelson is headquartered in Nashville, TN. For additional information, visit www.thomasnelson.com.

It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way:
Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
By Lysa TerKeurst
Available from Nelson Books, November 13, 2018

Press Inquiries: Pamela McClure, McClure Muntsinger Public Relations, 615-294-5073 or pamela@mmpublicrelations.com

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Janice Peterson, wife of late Eugene Peterson, releases first book

November 5, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (October 30, 2018)—NavPress announces the November release of Janice Peterson’s debut book, Becoming Gertrude: How Our Friendships Shape Our Faith, detailing the important role of spiritual friendship in faith formation.

Every person who visited Eugene and Jan Peterson at their cabin on Flathead Lake in Montana arrived eager to talk with Eugene—and returned talking about the warm kindness and feisty wisdom of Jan. Living a quiet life of service and hospitality behind the scenes, Jan Peterson has spent her years showing spiritual friendship and gospel love to the people around her. In Becoming Gertrude, she shares her story for the first time, offering insights into friendship, service, and hospitality.

Becoming Gertrude has emerged from years of Jan’s writing and life experiences and is a winsome, thoughtful reflection on how to live out faith in relationship. The title is an homage to a neighbor from her childhood, an older woman who opened her home to Jan and became a sounding board and proving ground for Jan’s thinking and spiritual health. As Eugene wrote in the book’s afterword, “[Jan] has practiced the art of spiritual friendship, ‘always present, always caring.’ She is the most practical theologian I know. Through the deeply personal friendships she has invested herself in over the course of a lifetime, she has become more her God-created self in the company of others. As I have in hers.”

NavPress publisher Don Pape says, “I’ll never forget the gathering of pastors in the Petersons’ home and Jan’s very quick response to one of them when asked if she had written a book. She assured the group that Gene was the writer in the family. And then as we left she presented me with a tattered old brown binder with her writings. What a surprise. What a gift. This book is a treasure trove of practical life skills that comes from a faithful life, a life committed to her Lord and her family. She really is a good friend to have!”

For media inquiries, please contact Katie Dodillet at Tyndale House Publishers, katiedodillet@tyndale.com.

The NavPress mission is to advance the calling of The Navigators by bringing biblically rooted, culturally relevant, and highly practical products to people who want to know and love Christ more deeply. Through The Message Bible and other insightful resources, NavPress seeks to bring positive spiritual movement to people’s lives. In January 2014, NavPress entered into an alliance with Tyndale House Publishers to strengthen and better position NavPress and its rich content for the future. NavPress provides books and other content that bring spiritual impact and life transformation and help lead in the mission of making disciples.

 

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Lillian Miao returns to Paraclete Press as Director

November 5, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

Paraclete Press is pleased to announce that, starting November 1, 2018, Lillian Miao, CJ, has returned to the publisher after a ten-year absence, as Director. Miao was CFO and then CEO of Paraclete Press from 1987–2008, during which time she was active in the religion publishing community, including a term as the first chairwoman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). During her time away from the press, she has been active in leadership at the Community of Jesus, to which she belongs, and which owns and operates Paraclete Press. She and her husband, Andrew, also spent most of the last two years living and working abroad in Taiwan.

Miao joins an experienced team at Paraclete, including Jon M. Sweeney, Publisher; Robert Edmonson, President; and Laura McKendree, Director of Marketing and Sales.

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Eugene H. Peterson: A Life Well Traveled

October 29, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

The End of Death-as-the-End for Eugene Peterson (1932–2018)

We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.  —Romans 6:6-11, The Message

CAROL STREAM, Ill. (October 22, 2018) — “I’ve always liked Billy Sunday’s formula for the ideal Christian life,” Eugene Peterson wrote in the opening lines of his book, Living the Resurrection.

“Hit the sawdust trail, fall on your knees, and receive Christ as your Savior. Then walk out of this tent into the street, get hit by a Mack truck, and go straight to heaven.” You must admit, I think, that it’s a wonderful formula for getting to heaven the quickest and easiest way.

Of course, he was being ironic. “Quick and easy” has never defined Eugene Peterson. He is better known and greatly loved for the way of “a long obedience in the same direction,” a deliberate and gracious way of living that is shaped and strengthened by the reality of the Incarnation—life in a universe crafted by a God who “became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood” (John 1:14, The Message)—and a vision of the Resurrection—the defeat of death by the God of eternity.

On October 22, 2018, at the age of 85, Eugene has completed his journey along the sawdust trail and has entered the life to come in “the new country of grace—a new life in a new land!” (Romans 6:1-3, The Message). He is survived by his wife, Jan, his three children, and many grandchildren.

Eugene is perhaps best known as the translator of The Message, a rendering of the Scriptures into contemporary language. His high regard for the Scriptures led him to this work as a by-product of his decades-long pastoral ministry. As he wrote in the preface to The Message,

There’s hardly a page in the Bible I did not see lived in some way or other by the men and women, saints and sinners, to whom I was pastor. . . . Many of the people I worked with now knew virtually nothing about it, had never read it, and weren’t interested in learning. Many others had spent years reading it but for them it had gone flat through familiarity, reduced to clichés. Bored, they dropped it. And there weren’t many people in between.

Eugene has always seen his principal vocation as that of a pastor, and this pastoral concern for the formation of his congregation was the driver of his unique rendering of first the New Testament (in 1993) and later the Old Testament (in 2002). Having sold more than 20 million copies, The Message is one of the most significant versions of the Bible to be published in the past 50 years.

Doug Nuenke, US president of The Navigators, whose publishing arm, NavPress, has been the home of The Message since 1993, considers Eugene “forever connected to the ministry of The Navigators.”

He is so often identified as “the author of The Message,” which is the heart of our NavPress ministry. But Eugene was more than that. He was a pastor of pastors. He showed us all what it means to love a community of people. His leadership legacy is not one of tools or tactics, but one of humble service, devotion to the Word of God, and a commitment to caring well for God’s people.

NavPress publisher Don Pape developed a friendship with the Peterson family over the past four years. He writes of Eugene,

Eugene was more than The Pastor. He was more than The Author. Truly this man lived and breathed and smiled Jesus. Whenever I was privileged to be with him I caught a glimmer of what it means to walk with your Savior. What a living example he was. Even in his death he showed me his Christlikeness. I am ever grateful to have known Eugene.

The NavPress mission is to advance the calling of The Navigators by bringing biblically rooted, culturally relevant, and highly practical products to people who want to know and love Christ more deeply. Through The Message Bible and other insightful resources, NavPress seeks to bring positive spiritual movement to peoples’ lives. In January 2014, NavPress entered into an alliance with Tyndale House Publishers to strengthen and better position NavPress and its rich content for the future. NavPress provides books and other content that bring spiritual impact and life transformation and help lead in the mission of making disciples.

NAVPRESS is a registered trademark of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO. The NAVPRESS logo is a trademark of NavPress, The Navigators.

Contact: Katie Dodillet, Director of Public Relations, Tyndale House Publishers, katiedodillet@tyndale.com, 630.784.5275

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Eugene Peterson, beloved pastor and “Long Obedience” author, passes

October 29, 2018 by Sheri Toomb

WESTMONT, IL— Beloved pastor and poet Eugene Peterson, 85, passed away Monday morning, October 22, a week after entering hospice care for complications related to heart failure and dementia.

Peterson (1932–2018) wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language and bestselling spiritual formation classic A Long Obedience in the Same Direction.

Cindy Bunch, associate publisher and director of editorial at IVP, said, “Eugene Peterson was a teacher who pointed us to the essentials of faith, worship, church life, Scripture, and obedience. I am grateful that InterVarsity Press has had the opportunity to publish his words of exhortation not just for pastors but for all believers. He wrote, ‘Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim.’ We need his prophetic words now more than ever.”

Peterson was born in East Stanwood, Washington, and grew up in Kalispell, Montana. He was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in 2006.

Peterson’s The Message paraphrase and writings on spirituality inspired evangelical leaders and Christians around the world. His popularity even reached U2 front man Bono, and they formed a friendship around their common interest in the Psalms.

“In the last few years, Eugene’s writing has kept me sane,” said Bono. “Run with the Horses has been a powerful manual for me. It includes a lot of incendiary ideas. I hadn’t really thought of Jeremiah as a performance artist. Why do we need art? Because if we’re honest, the only way that we can approach God is through metaphor, through symbol. Through Run with the Horses I learned about the prophet’s work and it really changed me.”

Peterson published several books with IVP including Run with the Horses, Earth & Altar and Traveling Light. His first book, published with IVP in 1980, was A Long Obedience in the Same Direction.

“When I wrote A Long Obedience twenty years ago, I was a parish pastor writing for my parishioners, the people I knew best in the place I knew best, a few acres of Maryland piedmont on which we were camped for a few years in our wanderings through the North American wilderness,” Peterson wrote in the epilogue to A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. “I was doing what pastors do—trying to get this gospel of Jesus Christ into the lives of these men and women with whom I was living, and doing it the only way I knew, through Scripture and prayer, prayer and Scripture. I preached and taught the Scriptures that revealed Jesus. I prayed with and for this mixed bag of saints and sinners that was my congregation, prayed in the name of Jesus.”

He further explains that seventeen publishers initially rejected the book, saying there was no “niche” for it. IVP’s risk in picking it up gave him confidence to continue in his work and his writing.

“Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in the Same Direction vibrantly and powerfully opened up the wonder of the Psalms and its Songs of Ascents to me very early in my journey of faith,” Jeff Crosby, IVP’s publisher, said. “And that book, in turn, prompted me to follow Eugene’s written work over the past three decades, from his essay on the classic literature of Fyodor Dostoyevsky to his spiritual theology from Eerdmans publishing and, of course, his work on The Message which I have used devotionally since its publication. His voice was one of great wisdom, his life an example of Christian fidelity, and his witness of obedient discipleship a challenge to us all.”

The family statement on Monday said Peterson remained joyful and smiling in his final days.

“It feels fitting that his death came on a Monday, the day of the week he always honored as a Sabbath during his years as a pastor. After a lifetime of faithful service to the church — running the race with gusto — it is reassuring to know that Eugene has now entered into the fullness of the Kingdom of God and has been embraced by eternal Sabbath,” according to the statement.

In an interview with Religion News Service last year Peterson said that he did not fear death. “I don’t think it’s anything to be afraid of,” he said. “I have no idea how it’s going to work out. But I’m not afraid, I’ll tell you that. I’ve been with a lot of people who are dying. I think those conversations are some of the best I’ve ever had. These are people who have lived a good life and who have embraced their faith. They’re not afraid.”

“We do know what’s going to happen, those of us who believe in the Trinity,” Peterson said. “For us, there’s something quite . . . I don’t want to use the word ‘miraculous’ in a sloppy way. But there are people who die well, and I want to be one.”

Peterson’s family stated, “With full and overflowing hearts, we give thanks for the gift of his life, knowing that his joy is now complete.”

To see IVP’s tribute to Peterson, please visit www.ivpress.com/eugene-h-peterson.

Founded in 1947 as an extension of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, InterVarsity Press serves those in the university, the church, and the world by publishing thoughtful Christian books that equip and encourage people to follow Jesus as Savior and Lord in all of life. For more information, visit ivpress.com.

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