Posts by Barry Corey

Barry Corey

Dr. Barry Corey (Ph.D.) is President of Biola University.

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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...
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.
Biola Magazine
Good Works are a Means, Not an End
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — October 31, 2012
I sat at a breakfast table a few months ago overlooking lower Central Park in Manhattan. Across the table was Lamar Vest, president of the American...
Biola Magazine
A Christian Worldview Champion Hands Off the Mantle
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 18, 2012
I made the mistake a few years ago — before I came to Biola — of doubting an idea Charles Colson shared with me. At the time I was serving as dean...
Biola Magazine
What Would Our Founders Think of Biola Today?
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — April 22, 2012
Since coming to Biola, I’ve frequently used the language of conviction and courage. Conviction points us back to our core beliefs. Courage is...
Biola Magazine
Talbot’s New Building: Built on a Sure Foundation
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — January 20, 2012
Oct. 14, 2011, was a historic day at Biola University. It was a day of remembrance, thanksgiving and reflection on the blessings God has bestowed...
Biola Magazine
2011-12: The Year of the Arts
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — September 18, 2011
Biola University’s mural, "The Word," has for 20 years stretched from top to bottom of Bardwell Hall, our science building. Painted by renowned...
Biola Magazine
The Soil of the Soul of our Students
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — June 30, 2011
Paula and I have three children, and the oldest of them will be starting college in the fall. He looked at colleges from coast to coast and landed...
Biola Magazine
A 29-Year-Old Question Finally Answered
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — April 07, 2011
A Biola University facility administrator, Ken Bascom, had an idea 29 years ago. Before Sam Sutherland — Biola’s president from 1952 to 1970 —...
Biola Magazine
Four Extraordinary Lives, One Great God
President's Perspective
Barry Corey — January 19, 2011
This October, Paula and I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to participate in the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, and from...