Helping You Build the Future
Because of our commitment to Christian education, BJU Press produces textbooks and materials that support Christian educators in the crucial role they play in teaching students. We shape each textbook according to our core distinctives.
We exist to empower Christian educators to have an impact on the world for Christ by producing Christian educational materials with academic excellence from a biblical worldview.
Our Distinctives
Biblical Worldview Shaping
Biblical worldview shaping is at the heart of all the materials we design. Students learn how the Bible is relevant to every academic subject because each textbook includes biblical worldview shaping. Instead of beginning with man’s assumptions and then refuting them with God’s truth, we start with God’s truth as the standard. Scripture serves as a blueprint for how we put together our textbooks so that every lesson begins with truth.
Academic Rigor
Education involves both head and heart. Students’ thinking must be shaped by a biblical worldview in the academic disciplines in a way that is academically rigorous. Academic rigor is the educational experience that engages students in content appropriate to their academic level and helps them learn to analyze, evaluate, and ultimately create. We consult state and national standards and current educational research to help BJU Press products incorporate educational best practices.
Critical Thinking
An academically rigorous learning experience doesn’t just teach students what to think; it teaches them how to think. Analysis, evaluation, and creation are critical-thinking skills and are essential to 21st century teaching and learning. We want to equip teachers with strategies and tools to engage students with content, instruct students in content, and develop critical-thinking skills so that students can discover the joy of learning.
Technology Solutions
Relevant 21st century education requires the integration of technology, both by the teacher in instructional pedagogy and by the student in value-added learning experiences. BJU Press offers a variety of digital resources crafted to complement our BJU Press textbook products and designed to enhance and encourage optimal student learning. We offer instructional resources, professional development, differentiated activities, homework help, test curation, and much more across our easy-to-use, affordable technology platforms.
Our History
Fifty years ago, BJU Press had one textbook for sale, was operated largely by volunteers, and housed in a single 6 x 10 foot room.
Now, BJU Press produces a full complement of Pre-K through grade 12 educational materials with a biblical worldview that supports Christian students, teachers, and parents. As an industry leader in education, BJU Press spans four primary facets of publishing—content development, technology solutions, digital media production, and print production. We have over 450 employees and operate from facilities with over 190,000 square feet of space.
1970s
Our first textbook, Physical Science, written by George Mulfinger and Emmett Williams, was published by the University Press. The success of that book ultimately launched Bob Jones University Press and our mission to publish biblical worldview textbooks.
1980s
We opened Testing and Evaluation with a variety of standardized tests. We also released our first youth novel, Jenny Wren, under the imprint Books for Young Readers, which was later rebranded as Journey Books and then finally as JourneyForth.
1990s
The introduction of our new web press increased our printing by more than 1,000%. However, printing wasn’t our only big push in the 90s. The era called for us to launch our first digital learning through a satellite broadcast system that delivered real-time classes to Christian schools. The end of the decade brought a surge in demand for Christian educational materials, so we built a warehouse to help us better meet educators’ needs.
2010s
With the world moving more digital every day, we converted our video recording studios from tape to digital recording equipment. By 2012, we widened our digital footprint by adding Teacher Tools Online and Christian Classroom Online to our product lineup for the Christian school market. A year later, we released our first student edition eTextbooks and produced an entire class in HD for the first time. By the end of 2019, we had four recording studios and a new digital press, which allowed us to print on demand for the first time.
2020s
Nearly 50 years later, we released the 6th edition of our original textbook, Physical Science. We also installed the PageWide digital press, increasing our production speed an additional 300%. In addition, we made significant strides in enhancing educational tools and resources. BJU Press Be CyberSmart! was introduced as an instructional aid that teaches digital citizenship through a biblical worldview. We also invested in an HP t485 printer and binding system, which significantly boosted our production. In 2024, BJU Press Trove was launched, a premier learning platform designed for teachers and students using BJU Press materials.
Our Future
We aspire to enrich the lives of everyone we connect with, from our textbook and video production teams to the educators and students we serve. Academic excellence with a biblical worldview is at our heart, inspiring our craft and driving our innovation. We are looking for new ways to bring the BJU Press experience to the next generation, including the development of new digital learning platforms like BJU Press Trove™.
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