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Category: 2021 Spring

  • More Than a Film School

    How Biola’s School of Cinema and Media Arts is expanding its impact in Hollywood — and beyond

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola’s School of Cinema and Media Arts is a rising star in the entertainment industry. So say a growing number of industry leaders and...

  • Barry Corey — 

    When I read the Biola notice from 103 years ago, it seemed eerily familiar, at least in part. Posted in our periodic newsletter, The King’s...

  • Sarah Dougher — 

    Biola received the national honor of being selected as a member of the 2021–22 First-gen Forward cohort by the Center for First-generation Student...

  • Joe Conway — 

    Andrew van der Bijl — better known as “Brother Andrew” — was recognized this spring with Biola University’s 2020 Charles W. Colson Conviction and...

  • Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola’s top campus safety official was recognized by several law enforcement organizations this spring for his exemplary leadership and dedication...

  • A Leader on the Court: Spring 2021

    Senior Jazz Benn leads the women’s basketball team in the midst of a pandemic

    Zachariah Jimison — 

    Jazmin Benn is a role model on campus, a beauty care model off campus, and one of the most successful women’s basketball players in Biola history....

  • Why We Gave: Spring 2021

    Business owners Vincent Huang and Jovy Cheng make seven-figure gift to Biola Fund

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Vincent Huang and Jovy Cheng recently gave a seven-figure gift to the Biola Fund — providing critical support to students during a particularly...

  • Biola Introduces New Diversity Strategic Plan

    University roadmap identifies initiatives to build ‘unity amidst diversity’

    Jason Newell — 

    Biola marked a major milestone this spring in its ongoing efforts to embrace and embody biblical diversity, launching a long-awaited “...

  • Dr. 1,000

    Basketball coach Dave Holmquist reaches historic milestone

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Dave Holmquist has become just the fifth head coach in four-year college men’s basketball history to earn 1,000 career coaching victories, reaching...

  • Jenna Loumagne — 

    As society has increasingly become socially fragmented and polarized, more Christians are feeling disconnected and struggling to grow spiritually....

  • 30 to Watch (Literally)

    Meet some of the recent Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts alumni whose work you’ll want to follow

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The rising reputation of Biola’s Snyder's School of Cinema and Media Arts is a major credit to the many alumni who are making an impact through...

  • Softball Finishes as National Runner-Up

    Team makes impressive statement in first season of playoff eligibility

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The Biola softball team came within one win of capturing the NCAA Division II national championship this spring, falling just short in the final...

  • Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola is now accepting applications for several new online programs launching this summer and fall — including options at both the graduate and...

  • Think About It: Spring 2021

    A roundup of recent videos, podcasts and other resources on Christianity and culture

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Rocky Seto at Chapel (YOUTUBE) Rocky Seto, former assistant head coach for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, spoke at a recent Biola chapel. The now...

  • Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Where Prayer Becomes Real, by Kyle Strobel (M.A. ’02, M.A. ’05, associate professor of spiritual theology) and John Coe (’79, M.A. ’83, professor...

  • Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Questions of social justice have become highly combustible among Christians. Part of the problem stems from the triggering term “social justice.”...

  • Hope in Community

    Nursing alumna Michelle Howe uses her skills to combat Covid-19

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    When the Covid-19 vaccine race kicked into gear, alumna Michelle Howe (‘08) joined the cause as a study nurse assisting in the Pfizer-BioNTech...

  • Encountering God for the First Time Again

    Jeff White writes the first illustrated story Bible for adults

    Zachariah Jimison — 

    For those who have heard the stories of Abraham, David and Jesus their whole lives, it can be difficult to approach the Bible with a new set of...

  • Serving Servicemembers

    Psychologist Katie Kopp has spent the past 13 years working with military veterans

    Sarah Dougher — 

    Capt. Katie Kopp (M.A. ’05, Ph.D. ’08) was drawn to the Southern California sun when applying for Rosemead School of Psychology in the middle of an...

  • Biola Magazine Staff — 

    In fall of 2018, I came to my friend with the idea of a dinner club. It had been two years since I moved to New York City to pursue a career as a...

  • Suzy Crowell, 1939–2020

    Remembering the namesake of Crowell School of Business and descendant of Biola founder

    Barry Corey — 

    On the last day of 2020, I received word that Biola had lost a great friend, Suzanne “Suzy” Crowell. For Paula and me, it was a sad New Year’s Eve....

  • Wordsmithing the Word

    Biola professors help update the New American Standard Bible (NASB) for 2020

    Zachariah Jimison — 

    About six years ago, New Testament professors Moyer Hubbard and Alan Hultberg received an email from the Lockman Foundation that went something...