http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/ en-us 2012-01-31T09:25:05-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/a_favorite_from_2011_and_a_cha.php It's no secret that we at IVP are Margot Starbuck fans. And really, what's not to like? She's funny, she likes to paint polka dots on the rims of her glasses, and she's serious about justice--all reasons why her newest book, Small Things with Great Love, is one of my favorite IVP books of 2011. Stuff About Books Lisa Rieck 2012-01-31T09:25:05-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/a_more_objective_vote_for_2011.php Well, we hate to brag. But we're going to anyway, of course. Stuff About Books Lisa Rieck 2012-01-26T17:39:50-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/more_subjective_treatments_for.php "Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one," says Anne Lamott. "If they didn't, they would get a new one." It's one of my favorite quotes, and the one that keeps running through my head as I try to put... Suanne Camfield 2012-01-24T16:02:53-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/creative_maladjustment_practic.php In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we thought we'd post an excerpt from Adam Taylor's Mobilizing Hope, a book that, inspired by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, aspires to unleash a generation of "transformed... Dave Zimmerman 2012-01-16T11:09:41-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/honest_faith_survivors_guilt_o.php Two years ago today IVP was still celebrating the successful December launch of Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle, Kent Annan's mission memoir of his time living and working in Haiti. We had introduced Kent to the world... Likewise Books Dave Zimmerman 2012-01-12T08:02:22-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/for_the_feast_of_epiphany.php Dave Zimmerman 2012-01-06T10:45:32-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2012/01/best_of_2011--an_entirely_subj.php Likewise Books Dave Zimmerman 2012-01-04T08:36:11-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/12/the_fruit_of_silence.php Imagine not being able to talk. For some of us, that's more wish-dream than imagination; talking too often seems to get us into trouble or to open doors for people to mock us. For others of us, not being able... Dave Zimmerman 2011-12-21T06:33:20-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/12/strangely_dim_hacked.php If you weren't there, let me be the forty-fifth person to tell you that at the IVP Christmas party (at the well air-conditioned Lindner Center on the campus of Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois), in the middle of an improv... Dave Zimmerman 2011-12-11T08:12:03-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/11/welcome_to_ivp_may_i_take_your.php Dave Zimmerman 2011-11-28T11:48:48-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/11/the_beauty_of_being_present.php In case you haven't noticed, we have a little hospitality theme cooking here at Strangely Dim. To be honest, I've struggled for more than a month to come up with something (okay, anything) that I thought might enhance the theme.... Likewise Books Suanne Camfield 2011-11-23T08:20:09-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/11/the_work_of_welcome.php I've never been especially corporate-minded. I remember a conversation with my brother and my dad in which each of them shared some examples of their company's culture that made me spit out my gum. Then I shared some examples of... Dave Zimmerman 2011-11-18T16:41:42-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/11/behind_the_booklet_my_heart--c.php In 1947, among such earth-altering events as the partitioning of Palestine to incorporate the modern state of Israel and the formal establishment of the United Nations, two relatively inauspicious events took place: "The board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the... Dave Zimmerman 2011-11-17T06:50:26-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/11/behold--ive_come_to_fix_the_si.php Well, I've learned a few things over the past couple of weeks. If there's a sucker born every minute, then I've been born again and again and again. I have a handful of talents, but none of them is home... Dave Zimmerman 2011-11-07T11:15:25-06:00 http://strangelydim.ivpress.com/2011/10/the_hospitality_of_openness.php Hospitality has been on our minds here at Strangely Dim this month, and I'm guessing it's been on some of your minds recently too. Especially with Halloween coming, and with it the pressure to figure out what candy will make you the most popular house on the block. Hospitality Lisa Rieck 2011-10-28T09:57:30-06:00