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• The Good Book Blog

  Crossing the Heath with William Paley (1743-1805)

  Doug Geivett — June 22, 2015

  On May 25, 1805 the Christian church lost one of its ablest and most-remembered defenders. William Paley—Anglican minister, professor, and author—is permanently associated with the analogy of a watchmaker and the God of personal theism. He wrote that “the contrivances of nature . . . are not less evidently mechanical, not less evidently contrivances, not less accommodated to their end or suited to their office, than are the most perfect productions of human ingenuity” (Natural Theology, 1802). Paley mined the riches of biology for samples of such contrivance. In his day, the state of scientific knowledge in the field of biology permitted comparatively easy inference to the appearance of teleology in the natural world. Critics today forget this. The “demise” of Paley’s design argument for the existence of God is credited especially to a development that was to happen some 60 years later—the emergence of the new theory of evolution, beginning with the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) ...

• The Good Book Blog

  Work and Worship

  William Lane Craig — June 19, 2015

  Dr. Craig, I wanted to ask you a question as someone who is simply curious about Christianity. Can you explain what I consider to be the two "W"s of life under your God. These are work and worship ...

• Biola News

  Dr. Bethany Miller Named Associate Athletic Director

  Head Women's Basketball coach becomes full-time athletic administrator.

  Neil Morgan — June 18, 2015

  Biola Head Women’s Basketball Coach Dr. Bethany Miller will transition roles within the athletic department this summer, necessitating her...

• The Good Book Blog

  The Emotions of Jesus, Part 3: Compassion

  Thaddeus Williams — June 15, 2015

  If we peer underneath Jesus’ table-flipping rage at the Temple (explored in Part 2), we find a still deeper emotion to reflect. Matthew’s account tells us that immediately after protesting the poor-oppressing, God-mocking Temple system, “the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them" (Matthew 21:14). What a beautiful moment. In it we see that Jesus was outraged not in spite of His care for people but precisely because of it. The very people marginalized and trampled under the religious power structure are brought into the spotlight and elevated by Jesus. (He has a way of doing that.) He didn’t take anything from them or treat them like chumps in a captive market. He gave them vision and sound bodies. He treated them like the intrinsically valuable human beings they each were—and all for free.

• Biola Magazine

  Biola Changes Lives

  An investment in Biola can make a lifelong impact — just ask these students, alumni and supporters

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  “Biola University truly is unique. There is no other school that offers what it offers in the area of philosophy, apologetics, so many other...

• Biola Magazine

  The Shovels in my Office and the Excitement in my Heart

  Rick Bee — June 14, 2015

  Are you as excited as I am? I look through the amazing stories in this issue of Biola Magazine and I am overwhelmed by God’s provision and...

• Biola Magazine

  Called to Stewardship

  The biblical principles guiding Biola’s campaign

  Adam Morris — June 14, 2015

  God, Giving and Asking at Biola University. That’s the title of a booklet we’ve been sharing with alumni, parents and friends who are considering...

• Biola Magazine

  How to Help

  Six ways to get involved in The Campaign for Biola University

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  Biola University was built on the prayers, generosity and support of people like you, who saw the vision of a school endeavoring to carry out a...

• Biola Magazine

  Biola for the World

  Taking Biola’s biblically centered resources to the ends of the earth

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  For as long as Biola has existed, it has been an institution with an outward focus, looking for ways to bless people around the world with...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 4: Extend Biola’s Global Reach

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  Never before have more opportunities been available for Biola to realize its vision of being a university of global impact. Technological advances...

• Biola Magazine

  Front and Center

  A guide to Biola’s three academic centers

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  As part of the university’s goal to attract and develop outstanding Christian scholars and to have a more pronounced impact in the broader world...

• Biola Magazine

  Giving Voice to the Wisdom of Jesus

  Three years in, Biola’s Center for Christian Thought is seeking to contribute to a renaissance of the evangelical mind

  Evan Rosa — June 14, 2015

  Ideas are powerful. Perhaps they’re the most powerful thing in the world. But ideas also have a weakness: They need a voice. A voice to actualize...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 3: Influence the World of Ideas

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  Biola’s ambition is to become a global center for Christian thought — an institution that cultivates and disseminates influential scholarship,...

• Biola Magazine

  A New Era for the Sciences

  Why focusing on science, technology and health is a key priority of The Campaign for Biola University

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  Throughout history, the discoveries and applications of science — electricity, DNA, penicillin, the mapping of the human genome — have changed the...

• Biola Magazine

  A Transformed Campus

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  Click for full-size map Over the past five years, Biola and its supporters have invested tens of millions of dollars to transform our La Mirada...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 2: Provide Facilities That Inspire Learning

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  As Biola’s student body has grown — more than doubling in size over the last two decades alone — so too have the physical needs of the burgeoning...

• Biola Magazine

  Finding Family

  Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  As he counted down the days to his graduation in May 2015, biochemistry major Marcus Olivares-Perez (’15) marveled at the many ways Biola had...

• Biola Magazine

  Truth-Telling in Washington D.C.

  David Baxter, Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  As Katie Watson (’11) reflects on her Biola experience she remembers a professor who said, “Do you want to be a Christian journalist? Then be the...

• Biola Magazine

  Training to Teach in China

  Stephanie Kim — June 14, 2015

  Si Nae Kim (’14) came to Biola against all financial odds. As an international student from China — where her parents serve as missionaries — Kim...

• Biola Magazine

  Preparing for a Medical Career

  Cambria Aviles — June 14, 2015

  Gabby Odudu (’13) has wanted to work in medicine since she was a little girl, when she underwent numerous major surgeries on her eyes. “I basically...

• Biola Magazine

  Serving the Battle-Scarred

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  Like many of his fellow servicemen, Matt Nethers came back from the Iraq War with physical scars. When an IED exploded next to his vehicle during...

• Biola Magazine

  Knitting to Help Educate Girls in India

  Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  During her time at Biola, Sarah (Sjoberg ’14) Evans balanced several jobs during the school year and graduated a semester early to save money....

• Biola Magazine

  Following a Divine Script

  David Baxter, Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  As a publicist in the film industry, Amy Ortega (’12) is convinced that no one but God could have scripted her unlikely journey. Ortega arrived at...

• Biola Magazine

  Reaching the Least and the Lost

  Brett McCracken, Rachel Rohm — June 14, 2015

  When Jonathan Chua (’10) transferred to Biola to receive a degree in intercultural studies, his desire was to bring the gospel to people who had...

• Biola Magazine

  Ministering to At-Risk Kids With Music

  Cambria Aviles — June 14, 2015

  Lindsay Reed believes in the power of music to change lives. And through Biola’s Conservatory of Music, she has been able to witness firsthand the...