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  • Biola Magazine

    The Adventure of Giving

    Virginia Moats

    Brett McCracken — 

    In 1973 Virginia Moats was advised to purchase 200 shares of stock in a new company with an unknown product called “WD-40.” Following the death in...

  • Biola Magazine

    Because Gladys Gave

    Marilyn Meyer

    Brett McCracken — 

    For Marilyn Meyer, Gladys MacKenzie (’45) was more than just a Sunday school teacher; she was the embodiment of the love of Jesus. Marilyn only...

  • Biola Magazine

    Student Helping Students

    Evan Tan (’14, M.A. ’16)

    Brett McCracken, Kristina Nishi — 

    Evan Tan is a recent Biola graduate, current Talbot student and a member of the President’s Circle giving society. He knows very well the...

  • Biola Magazine

    Funders and Family

    Dave and Shirley Karnes

    Brett McCracken — 

    Dave and Shirley Karnes have been investing in Biola students for nearly three decades. To date, 23 students (and counting) have received help...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola Booster

    Vincent Huang

    Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — 

    As a business leader in the growing mobile technology industry, Vincent Huang is encouraged that Biola University is taking steps to bolster its...

  • Biola Magazine

    In Memory of Missy

    Steve and Wanda Belton

    Stephanie Kim — 

    Supporting the Biola Conservatory of Music strikes a very special chord with Steve and Wanda Belton. Their daughter Missy, an accomplished oboist,...

  • Biola Magazine

    Parents and Apologists

    John and Claudia Kalmikov

    Brett McCracken — 

    John and Claudia Kalmikov are a rarity for Biola parents: both are also Biola students. The donors and current campaign cabinet members are...

  • Biola Magazine

    Sacrificing for Students

    Matthew Weathers (’93)

    Stephanie Kim — 

    Matthew Weathers (’93) wears many hats at Biola; he’s a donor, a popular professor, a staff member and an alumnus. Weathers has been tied to Biola...

  • Biola Magazine

    Recruiting Students and Giving Back

    Miles Bocianski (’13) and Daniel Parham (’13)

    Brett McCracken, Kristina Nishi — 

    Having both been Biola students and now admissions counselors, Miles Bocianski (’13) and Daniel Parham (’13) know well the challenges of...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Product of Faithfulness

    Meleca Consultado (’09)

    Stephanie Kim — 

    Even though she is still paying off her own student loans, resident director Meleca Consultado (’09) donates to the Biola scholarship fund. Why?...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Warm Welcome

    Loy Chiu

    Jason Newell, Kristina Nishi — 

    As a teenager in the late 1940s, Loy Chiu figured he didn’t have the grades or the money to attend college. But he applied to Biola anyway, just...

  • Biola Magazine

    Historic $12 Million Gift Supports New Science Building

    Alton Lim seeks to ‘return back to God what is originally his’ with largest cash gift in Biola’s history

    Jason Newell — 

    For much of his adulthood, Alton Lim sensed that something — or someone — was guiding his life. As a Chinese immigrant who started with little,...

  • Biola Magazine

    Leading the Way

    Campaign cabinet helps to spearhead fundraising efforts

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    How does a university like Biola even begin to raise $180 million? In addition to plenty of prayer and planning, it takes a whole lot of help from...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Soul, A Voice and A Vision

    Reflections on the theme of Biola University’s largest ever fundraising campaign:
 “A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage”

    Brett McCracken — 

    Our world isn’t lacking in voices. Every day we are bombarded by a chorus of opinions, tweets, texts, ads, blogs and more. But where are the voices...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Historic Night

    Conviction and Courage Gala launches campaign, raises nearly $4 million in one evening

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    With the message “Jesus Saves” glowing brightly in the skyline above, hundreds of Biola friends and supporters gathered on May 9 for one of the...

  • Biola Magazine

    Making History by Shaping the Future

    How a $180 million campaign will transform Biola University and its students

    Jason Newell — 

    This is a historic moment for Biola University. It is, to hear university leaders tell it, a point in time that future generations of Biolans will...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage

    President Barry H. Corey offers his perspective on the launch of The Campaign for Biola University

    Barry Corey — 

    B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! The five-lettered chant — with a force on the O — is a common student refrain in our Chase Gymnasium as they...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Is “Fine-Tuning” Question-Begging?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear William Lane Craig, I am a philosophically unsympathetic fan of yours. I very much admire your philosophical learning, your rhetorical skills and your ingenuity in defense of your faith; at the same time, I reject both your faith itself and the apologetic project at the center of your work in philosophy. I'm sure this is a combination you're already familiar with. What interests me at the moment is something in your recent podcast on Tim Maudlin and the fine tuning argument, and I hope you don't mind considering these short comments ...

  • Biola News

    Biola Finishes 24th in Directors' Cup

    Biola earns a 7th-straight top-30 national finish.

    Neil Morgan — 

    Directors' Cup Release| Complete Rankings| GSAC All-Sports Award Release Four-hundred and twenty-nine total points is enough to get Biola its...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Justin Martyr: The First Great Apologist of the Christian Church

    Doug Geivett — 

    Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165 AD) is considered by many to be the first great apologist of the Christian church. The apostle Paul is surely a better candidate for that distinction. But Paul was an inspired author of Scripture. This is not true of any of the other great Christian apologists. And Justin apparently was the first of these. Certainly, he is the first whose writings have survived and are available in English translation ...

  • Biola News

    Christine Tixier Named Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year

    Tixier earns highest national academic honor.

    Neil Morgan — 

    AUSTIN, Texas --- Christine Tixier set another landmark during her highly-decorated career as a student-athlete at Biola when she was selected the...

  • Biola News

    Sean Henning Named New Track & Field/Cross Country Coach

    Biola names Sean Henning, former CBU Assistant, as new T&F/XC Head Coach.

    Neil Morgan — 

    A nationwide search for Biola University’s new Track & Field and Cross Country head coach came to a conclusion when Sean Henning accepted the...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Why Can’t God Be Just the Greatest Being?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Hello Dr. Craig. My question was awakened after having been listening to your class on ''The Ontological Argument''. My question to you is: Does a maximally great being, necessarily have be what we humans are able to imagine as the greatest being? Can it not just be that the being (God) who is in reality the greatest of all beings (since no greater being exists in reality), is the greatest conceivable being. Why do our imagining of a greater being need to devaluate the greatness of the already greatest being. Even if we could imagine a greater being, can it not just be that those ''greater/higher attributes'' are unnecessary and therefore not really greater attributes?

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Emotions of Jesus, Part 2: Outrage

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    To see and experience something of Jesus’ emotions, let us join eighty to a hundred thousand religious pilgrims on their trek to the sacred city to worship at the Jewish Temple. It is Passover week. In order to participate in the traditional Temple offerings, people need doves or pigeons. Since worshippers need these birds, they were sold at the Temple at a premium price. You could get a more economical bird outside the Temple courts or lug one from home through the hot desert. However, every bird used in Temple rituals had to pass the rigid purity standards of the Temple’s in-house animal inspectors. Only inflated Temple-sold birds had the guaranteed certification of the scrupulous inspectors. In this way, the house of prayer had become a classic case of what economists call a “captive market.

  • Biola News

    Fifteenth in Thailand's Tennis League Finishes First Year on Biola University's Tennis Team

    Freshman Philip Westwood reflects on what it means to be a Biola athlete

    Kayla Mele — 

    Philip Westwood, Biola University freshman and men’s tennis team member, ranked 15 out of 1,000 athletes for tennis in Bangkok, Thailand....