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  • Biola Magazine

    ‘God’s Smuggler’ Honored with Colson Award

    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

    Campus Safety Chief Honored for Leadership

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

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

  • Biola Magazine

    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....

  • Biola Magazine

    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 Magazine

    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 “...

  • Biola Magazine

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    Ask the Expert: What Keeps Christians from Experiencing Spiritual Growth?

    Jenna Loumagne — 

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

  • Biola Magazine

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    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

    Biola Launches Spate of New Online Programs

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    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

    Books by Biolans: Spring 2021

    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

    Social Justice: A Christian Approach

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

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

  • Biola Magazine

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    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

    A Recipe for Trusting God

    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...

  • Biola Magazine

    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....

  • Biola Magazine

    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...

  • Think Biblically

    [Bonus] How Archaeology Supports the Bible

    with Joel Kramer

    Sean McDowell — 

    Is there actually good archaeological evidence supporting the Bible? Sean interviews archaeologist Joel Kramer about his recent book Where God Came...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Why Alumna Jasmine Mullally Transferred to Biola Twice

    Character and Career: Stories of Transformation

    Jasmine Mullally, John Tuttle — 

    “When you learn to be okay with not knowing what the future holds because you know that God knows and you can trust him, you will never feel more free or more at peace.”

  • The Good Book Blog

    What Does Greek Grammar Have to Do with Social Justice?

    Clinton E. Arnold — 

    I began teaching Greek at Talbot in the fall of 1987. Part of teaching Greek grammar is in helping students understand the nuances of the Greek...

  • Think Biblically

    The Anatomy of Deconversion

    with John Marriott

    John Marriott, Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — 

    We hear an increasing number of stories — tragic ones — of recognizable Christian leaders abandoning their faith. What contributes to these...

  • GRIT

    Thecla's Last Word

    Thecla Li — 

    When interviewing for GRIT in my sophomore year, I told the team that I didn’t know what it meant to be an empowered woman or what I could do to...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Are You a People Pleaser?

    Kenneth Berding — 

    Are you a people pleaser? Do you do things for others so they will like you, thank you or just not get upset at you? The Urban Dictionary...