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  • 2018 Winter

    Monitoring a Movement

    Brad Christerson researches growing influence of ‘INC’ churches

    Joanna Wu — 

    Denominational churches are in decline, with far fewer members every year. But there is one group in particular within Christianity that is...

  • 2018 Winter

    A Grave Reality

    We Were All Born “Auschwitz-Enabled”

    Clay Jones — 

    Many years ago, when I first started preparing for my book, Why Does God Allow Evil? , I began to study genocide because I didn’t want anyone to...

  • 2018 Winter

    Biola For Everyone

    New online platform Biola LEARN offers low-cost courses to anyone, anywhere

    Melissa Hedrick — 

    At age 76, Nancy Longmire may not look like a typical Biola University student. But as one of the first participants in an innovative new program...

  • 2018 Winter

    Renewing the Rivalries

    In their first season of NCAA Division II competition, the Biola Eagles are facing familiar foes once again

    Jason Newell — 

    Pepsi vs. Coke. Apple vs. Microsoft. Star Trek vs. Star Wars. Biola vs. APU. After a five-year pause, one of the best rivalries in the world (or...

  • 2018 Winter

    Live from Los Angeles

    Anabel Muñoz (’10) reports from across Southern California for ABC7 Eyewitness News

    Joanna Wu — 

    One of Anabel Muñoz’s (’10) most memorable experiences to date as a television news reporter began with a phone call. A young woman named Crystal,...

  • 2018 Winter

    Leaving a Legacy Beyond Dollars and Cents

    Economic thought leader David McAlvany (’97) helps others create a meaningful family culture

    Kathryn Toombs — 

    As a second-generation business owner, David McAlvany (’97) is no stranger to the idea of legacy. The CEO of the McAlvany Financial Companies,...

  • 2018 Winter

    Think You’re Smart?

    Matt Fisher (’11) makes international headlines with research on intellectual humility

    Kristen Hartman — 

    Using Google can make people think they are smarter than they actually are. Want proof? Do a quick search for “Google” and “smarter than they...

  • 2018 Winter

    People Matter Most

    Book excerpt from 'Our Deepest Desires' by Professor Gregory E. Ganssle

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    September 11, 2001, marks our shared consciousness. We were all glued to our television sets. The memories are burned into our minds and hearts....

  • 2017 Summer

    A Warm Welcome

    New Welcome Center creates inviting space for future Biolans

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    New visitors to Biola’s campus are getting the red-carpet treatment — make that red-wall treatment. In April, the university debuted a new...

  • 2017 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How it Ends, and Everything Important That Happens In Between, by Gregory Koukl (M.A. ’06), Zondervan,...

  • 2017 Summer

    Jason Newell — 

    Brexit. The Ban. The Wall. Over the past year, these small words have come to occupy a big place in our national and international consciousness....

  • 2017 Summer

    Borders and the Bible

    How can scriptural wisdom inform ongoing debates over immigration?

    Brett McCracken — 

    For Nohemi, a senior communications studies major at Biola, immigration is more than just a topic of debate. It’s real life. Nohemi’s mom was eight...

  • 2017 Summer

    On Higher Ground

    President's Perspective

    Barry Corey — 

    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...

  • 2017 Summer

    ‘Weekend With the President’ Raises $4.2 Million

    Gathering breaks university’s single-day fundraising record

    Brett McCracken — 

    Two years ago Biola’s “Conviction and Courage Gala” in downtown Los Angeles set the record for the most money donated to the school at a single...

  • 2017 Summer

    Another Successful Startup

    Student-alumni team wins $25,000 to launch socially conscious publishing company

    Joanna Wu — 

    Getting knocked out of the first round of the Biola Startup Competition in 2015 didn’t stop senior Jordan Perkins (’17) and alumnus John Terranova...

  • 2017 Summer

    Mobilizing Students for Kingdom Work

    Kristina Lowen pursues her calling as Student Missionary Union’s next president

    Joanna Wu — 

    In a few short months, Kristina Lowen will step into a key role as president of the Student Missionary Union at Biola — a college she wasn’t...

  • 2017 Summer

    Joanna Wu — 

    Joni Eareckson Tada, an international advocate for people with disabilities and the founder and CEO of Joni and Friends, became the fourth...

  • 2017 Summer

    Joanna Wu — 

    Christian social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and executive pastors now have a program that can equip them to take their organization to the...

  • 2017 Summer

    Winter Sports Roundup

    Biola Finishes Strong in Final NAIA Year

    Neil Morgan — 

    Biola’s successful winter sports season was good enough to keep the Eagles ranked sixth in the nation in the 2016–17 Learfield Directors’ Cup,...

  • 2017 Summer

    How Does Seminary Affect Students’ Character?

    Professor David Wang leads effort to study spiritual maturity of seminarians

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    How does going to seminary actually grow a person’s character? Rosemead School of Psychology professor David Wang is trying to answer just that....

  • 2017 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    As Western culture continues in its post-Christian trajectory, with growing hostility to Christian values and biblical orthodoxy, how can...

  • 2017 Summer

    The 'Withered Leaf' and the 'Garden'

    Book excerpt from ‘REFLECT’ by professor Thaddeus Williams

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “What we are worshiping we are becoming.” In other words, our deities shape our identities. Let us call this...

  • 2017 Summer

    Translating the Text

    Q&A with Darian Lockett, translation oversight committee member for the Christian Standard Bible

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    A brief interview with Darian Lockett (associate professor of biblical and theological studies), who served on the translation oversight committee...

  • 2017 Summer

    T. Kurt Jaros — 

    Five hundred years ago, the Protestant Reformation led the way out of the supposed theological dark ages and brought us ad fontes, back to the...

  • 2017 Summer

    Showing God’s Love Through C-Sections

    Sarah Villegas (’04) trains doctors in underdeveloped countries

    Joanna Wu — 

    Sarah Villegas (’04) is determined to decrease the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Kenya. As a doctor and global health leadership fellow at...