Crossway

It claims to have distributed more than 290 million ESV Bibles and 1 billion tracts.

• Founded — 1938 1978 • Founder — Clyde and Muriel Dennis Lane and Ebeth Dennis • Country — United States • Headquarters — Wheaton, Illinois • Keypeople — Josh Dennis (President and CEO) • Publications — Christian books, ESV Bibles, tracts • Url — https: www.crossway.org

In late 1978, Good News Publishers began expanding its reach by establishing Crossway, a publishing division. Beginning under the leadership of Lane T. Dennis (Clyde and Muriel's son), and since 2021, Josh Dennis (his son), Crossway claims that it has published more than 1,500 titles, including books "by Francis A. Schaeffer, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Piper, John MacArthur, Paul David Tripp, Jen Wilkin, J. I. Packer, Chuck Colson, Frank Peretti, Max Lucado, Joni Eareckson Tada, and D. A. Carson." In 2012, Good News Publishers and the American Tract Society entered into a joint publishing agreement regarding publication and distribution of gospel tracts throughout North America.

In 2001, Crossway published the ESV translation of the Bible. The ESV translation committee describes the ESV as a translation that is "essentially literal", following a "word-for-word" philosophy. According to Crossway, the publishing team behind the ESV "has included more than a hundred people." In 2008, Crossway published the ESV Study Bible. In 2016, Crossway made headlines after announcing that the ESV text would be "unchanged forever, in perpetuity" as a "permanent text" edition, following a change of 29 verses. After public discourse about the policy, Crossway announced that it would reverse the decision.