July 2025 | LISLE, IL—InterVarsity Press (IVP) is excited to announce that Preaching in a New Key has been selected as one of the ten finalists for the annual Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.
The Australian Christian Book of the Year Award recognizes excellence in Christian writing by an Australian citizen. Candidates are judged according to the work’s original nature, literary style, design, and contribution made. Winners will be announced during the SparkLit Awards night in Melbourne on August 21, 2025.
Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities teaches expository preaching integrated with creativity, cultural discernment, pastoral health, justice, missiology, and more. Scholar and pastor Mark R. Glanville provides a fresh look into the art of crafting sermons for post-Christian contexts.
“Designed to make faith plausible to a new generation of listeners whose values are disconnected from the church, this book seeks to create communities of witness that are attuned to shifting cultures,” said Sarah Travis, Ewart Professor of the Practice of Ministry and Faith Formation at Knox College, University of Toronto. “This preaching is holistic and integrated, seeking to nurture the health of the preacher and the body of Christ. Concerned with beauty and justice, Glanville’s approach to expository preaching will nourish our shared life.”
Glanville (PhD) currently works as the Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and is the author of five books. He has pastored in creative, justice-seeking churches for fourteen years in both Canada and Australia and has played jazz piano professionally for thirty years. Through a variety of lenses, Glanville shows how the Bible is forming churches that extend the tenderness of Jesus in their particular neighborhoods.
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Contact: Krista Clayton | 630.734.4096 | kclayton@ivpress.com
