James Hoover (MDiv, Gordon Conwell) is the organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Downers Grove, Illinois. He has retired from his thirty-five-year role as IVP's associate editorial director and senior editor for IVP Academic. He served as IVP's in-house editor in the area of patristic studies, overseeing editorial work on the 29-volume Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, the 5-volume Ancient Christian Doctrine series, the 15-volume Ancient Christian Texts series, and the Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity.