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  • Charitable Organizations Connected with IVP Authors

    Charitable Organizations Connected with IVP Authors

    Charitable Organizations Connected with IVP Authors

    Are you looking for ways to tangibly share God's love and kindness with those in your community and around the world? To connect you with practical ideas for giving and getting involved, we've gathered some ministries near and dear to our authors' hearts that are worthy of your support. We're happy to shine a light on these nonprofits in order to bolster the kingdom work they are doing all over the world.

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  • Jean Pond

    Pond is formerly visiting associate professor of biology at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and the M.S. from Oregon State University. An area of emphasis in her master's work was the history and philosophy of science. She received her doctorate in microbiology from the School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. Her doctoral research, which focused on the membrane lipids of a hyperthermophilic bacterium, was followed by postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the University of Florida. Pond is currently retired from teaching, though she recently led a course in the history and philosophy of science at Whitworth College. In 1993 she was awarded the Howard Vollum Writing Award on "Horizons of Science and the Christian Faith" for her article Catholic Frogs. She and her family spent the year 1996-1997 in a rural and disadvantaged area of South Africa, where she and her husband volunteered as teachers in St. Mark's School (a junior and senior high school affiliated with the Anglican Church).

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  • James Emery White

    James Emery White

    James Emery White

    James Emery White is the founding and senior pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is also adjunct professor of theology and culture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he previously served as the school's fourth president. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Serious Times and A Search for the Spiritual.

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  • Samuel Wells

    Samuel Wells

    Samuel Wells

    Samuel Wells (Ph.D., Durham University) is dean of Duke University Chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of several books, including Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics and Speaking the Truth: Preaching in a Pluralistic Culture.

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  • Mark Yaconelli

    Mark Yaconelli

    Mark Yaconelli

    Mark Yaconelli is a writer, speaker, spiritual director and community activist. He is the founder and executive director of The Hearth Community, a nonprofit that assists towns and charitable organizations in cultivating compassion through personal storytelling. His previous books include Contemplative Youth Ministry and Wonder, Fear, and Longing. Profiles of Mark have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News Tonight and Youthworker Journal. Mark lives in southern Oregon with his wife, Jill, and their three children.

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