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Biola Magazine
Pandemic Redux: Redeeming the Time
Barry Corey — June 30, 2021
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...
Biola Magazine
Suzy Crowell, 1939–2020
Remembering the namesake of Crowell School of Business and descendant of Biola founder
Barry Corey — June 30, 2021
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
Biola’s Biblical Approach to Racial Justice
Amid racial pain and division, Scripture calls us to godly discernment and gospel faithfulness.
Barry Corey — December 14, 2020
On March 11, just a week before we began emptying the campus in response to Covid-19, about 100 of us sat in a circle at Biola’s Calvary Chapel...
Biola Magazine
Biola Through the Lens of President and Parent
Book excerpt from 'Make the Most of It' by President Barry H. Corey
Barry Corey — March 25, 2020
Four years after starting my job as the university’s president, our oldest graduated from high school and decided to attend Biola. Given my role at...
Biola Magazine
A Mother’s Letter
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 09, 2019
Labor Day weekend brought the campus back to life. After a quiet summer, hundreds of jammed cars, SUVs and trailers hauled in the stuff of our...
Biola Magazine
The Virtue of Boredom
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — May 15, 2019
We need oxygen to live, not a phone. Some think it’s both. Paula and I were having dinner in Lower Manhattan when we were reminded of this. At one...
Biola Magazine
Unwavering ‘Wind Discerners’
Barry Corey — February 20, 2019
Jesus said in Luke 12, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. And when the south wind...
Biola Magazine
The Rebirth of Biola's Calvary Chapel
Barry Corey — October 22, 2018
Biola students returning to campus this fall encountered a Calvary Chapel that has beenartistically transformed. This summer, the renowned Danish...
Biola Magazine
A Centered University
Barry Corey — June 20, 2018
In the Australian outback, cattle are kept on a ranch by either building a fence around the perimeter or building a well in the center. The first...
Biola Magazine
Anchored in the Word
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 31, 2017
Ten years ago, when I started at Biola, I could not have predicted so much of what has happened. More and more, I find myself pondering Biola’s...
Biola Magazine
On Higher Ground
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 29, 2017
Come July, Paula and I will have been at Biola University for 10 years. A lot of wonderful developments have happened during that decade, most of...
Biola Magazine
God’s Need in God’s Time Will Not Lack God’s Supply
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — March 20, 2017
The 60 months of our fundraising campaign, “A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage: The Campaign for Biola University,” have been a journey for...
Biola Magazine
A New Day
Empowered by a historic campaign that raised $214 million, Biola University is poised to begin a bold new chapter
Barry Corey — March 20, 2017
On a January day a little more than five years ago, the Biola Board of Trustees cast a vote that made me feel both exhilarated and daunted. By...
Biola Magazine
On Senate Bills and a Better Story
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — October 31, 2016
I have to be honest. If you had told me nine years ago, when the moving truck was settling our family into California, that the state legislature...
Biola Magazine
Conviction, Courage and Civility: Three Virtues for a Vitriolic Age
Barry Corey — June 01, 2016
This spring, Biola University's Center for Christian Thought (CCT) and Center for Marriage and Relationships (CMR) hosted a one-day symposium on...
Biola Magazine
The Radical Call of Kindness
Why the church must recover Christian compassion in an age of incivility
Barry Corey — June 01, 2016
I held the hand of the kindest man I everknew, sitting by his bedside in silent reverence while he lay shrouded in sheets bleached white. We were...
Biola Magazine
Serious About Faith, Serious About Science
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 31, 2015
One of my great joys is serving at a university where 1,022 students are majoring in the sciences, planning for vocations in fields from research...
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 — June 14, 2015
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...
Biola Magazine
The Journey Through Yosemite
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — March 26, 2015
Someone recently told me Christians need to stop using the journey motif because it’s tired and hollow. I get it, in part. Platitudes about “life...
Biola Magazine
A Receivable University
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — December 07, 2014
It’s a story far longer than I have time to tell entirely, but one day when I was in my late 20s and trying to make sense of the world, my father...
Biola Magazine
Firm Centers and Soft Edges
Barry Corey — September 02, 2014
Last summer I received a letter from a Biola dad whose son graduated that year. John, the dad, is an investment broker from the East Coast whose...
Biola Magazine
A Psalm for South Korea
Barry Corey — May 30, 2014
Being invited to grieve alongside the bereaved is one of life’s highest but least acknowledged honors. Quiet grieving in the company of the bereft...
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A Psalm for South Korea
Barry Corey — May 05, 2014
Quiet grieving in the company of the bereft — neither providing answers nor hasty words about “being in a better place” — is among the highest and humblest ways we live out our Romans 12 calling to “weep with those who weep.” It’s even true when we comfort the profoundly grief-stricken who are complete strangers. This is what I told 35 Biola Chorale students as we rode through the night’s rain toward Jindo Island on Monday, April 28, 2014.
Biola Magazine
Partnership Lessons from China
Barry Corey — March 19, 2014
About 60 of us are gathered in the Majesty Plaza ballroom, a chandeliered hall in a downtown Shanghai hotel. I’m writing this column from that...
Biola Magazine
A Lesson from the Back of the Plane
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — November 04, 2013
This past academic year I was on a flight from Chicago to New York, seated in 29D. As I boarded the plane, I noticed a handful of Orthodox Jewish...