Articles by Barry Corey

• 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...

• The Good Book Blog

  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...

• Biola Magazine

  How Should We Then Learn? Biola’s Response to the Digital Revolution

  Barry Corey — June 27, 2013

  If you asked me what course had a significant impact on my undergraduate education, I would tell you about the one taught by Professor Twila...

• Biola Magazine

  Biola, Continuing the Great Intellectual Christian Tradition

  President's Perspective

  Barry Corey — May 29, 2013

  A generation ago, back in the ’70s, Christian leaders like Bill Bright, Loren Cunningham and Francis Schaeffer were imagining a generation of...

• Biola Magazine

  From ‘Glad Tidings’ to ‘Good News’

  President's Perspective

  Barry Corey — December 31, 2012

  My journey began in a blue-collar hard-scrabble community south of Boston. There my father was a preacher in a local church where people came to...

• The Good Book Blog

  O Little Town of Newtown

  Barry Corey — December 21, 2012

  Oh! Little town of Newtown, how still and sad we see thee lie. Newtown. About 100 miles from the little town where I grew up. That Connecticut bedroom village where local industries long manufactured fire hoses and folding boxes. The town where the game Scrabble began. The bucolic community where pizza places are called Carminuccio’s and elementary schools are called Sandy Hook. The New England hamlet where names of streets describe its pastoral landscape, names like Head of Meadows, Boggs Hill and Deep Brook.