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  • 2016 Summer

    Jason Newell — 

    From my window in Metzger Hall, I’ve got a front-and-center view of a massive pit opening up in the ground near Biola’s main entrance. Don’t worry,...

  • 2016 Summer

    Barry Corey — 

    This spring, Biola University's Center for Christian Thought (CCT) and Center for Marriage and Relationships (CMR) hosted a one-day symposium on...

  • 2016 Summer

    A Groundbreaking Day for the Sciences

    Construction begins on ambitious new science facility

    Jason Newell — 

    Biola broke ground in February on the most ambitious building project in its history, an expansive new science facility that will serve as a home...

  • 2016 Summer

    A Big Year for Biola Athletics

    Five teams win conference championships

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola’s student-athletes competed their way to one of the most successful years in university history in 2015–16, with five separate teams winning...

  • 2016 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Deborah L. Taylor (’93, M.A. ’01), a longtime Biola University administrator and faculty member, was appointed in May as the university’s new...

  • 2016 Summer

    Religious Freedom Scholar Receives 2016 Colson Award

    Paul Marshall is the third recipient of Biola’s ‘Conviction and Courage’ award

    Brett McCracken — 

    On May 27, Biola University awarded its third Charles W. Colson Conviction and Courage Award to Paul Marshall, a religious freedom scholar and...

  • 2016 Summer

    A Precedential President

    Taylor Stribbling serves as Biola’s first Student Government Association president

    Laurie Bullock — 

    Taylor Stribbling’s final year at Biola also marked a big first. The 2015–16 school year marked the debut of the Student Government Association,...

  • 2016 Summer

    Teaching the Write Way

    Professor Christie Curtis’ grammar textbooks are used in classrooms across the U.S.

    Laurie Bullock — 

    Christie Curtis (M.A. ’06) loves language. And as the co-author of a widely popular series of grammar textbooks, the Biola education professor...

  • 2016 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    With the 2016 U.S. presidential election well underway and political rhetoric heating up, perennial discussions about evangelicals and politics...

  • 2016 Summer

    Truth Must be Wedded to Grace

    Faculty/Alumni Book Excerpt

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    During a trip to Breckenridge, a beautiful ski town in the mountains of Colorado, a friend and I decided to get our hair cut at one of the little...

  • 2016 Summer

    Is it Intolerant to Claim Christianity Alone is True?

    Five responses to objections about Christianity’s exclusive claims

    Kenneth R. Samples — 

    A couple of years ago I visited Canada to record television interviews about my book Christian Endgame. Prior to the recording, some of the...

  • 2016 Summer

    The Radical Call of Kindness

    Why the church must recover Christian compassion in an age of incivility

    Barry Corey — 

    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...

  • 2016 Summer

    Offering Refuge

    Amid a worldwide refugee crisis, Biolans are taking bold action to care for those in need

    Charlene Choi — 

    The people of God have always been refugees. The instant we were banished from Eden, we became wanderers. The minute we fled Egypt, we were...

  • 2016 Summer

    One SCORR and 20 Years Ago

    For 20 years, Biola’s annual Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation has celebrated the beauty and engaged the challenges of diversity on Christian college campuses

    Brett McCracken — 

    “Evangelical Colleges’ Diversity Problem.” That was the headline of a January 2016 feature article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which...

  • 2016 Summer

    Leader of the Band

    Music instructor Mitch Bahr (’96) earns title of ‘California Teacher of the Year'

    Laurie Bullock — 

    Fourteen years ago Mitch Bahr (’96) stepped up to the podium to become music director at a rural Northern California high school and brought...

  • 2016 Summer

    Christianity Under a Microscope

    Molecular biologist Anjeanette ‘AJ’ Roberts (M.A. ’15) explores hard questions about faith and science

    Laurie Bullock — 

    As a college student, Anjeanette “AJ” Roberts wanted to dig deeper into the unknown. At the time, that meant viruses. While studying chemistry...

  • 2016 Summer

    No Fear in the ‘Force’

    Rob Bredow (’94) heads technology at Lucasfilm

    Brett McCracken — 

    With the release of The Force Awakens this past December, the building of Star Wars lands at Disney theme parks and the development of at least...

  • 2016 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The Office of Alumni Relations and Biola’s Alumni Board recognized four alumni for their outstanding accomplishments and service during a special...

  • 2016 Summer

    Combating Cynicism

    Four words for cynics: ‘affirm before you criticize’

    Greg Ganssle — 

    This issue’s Last Word comes from The Good Book Blog, the faculty blog of Biola’s Talbot School of Theology. This article is adapted from a post...

  • 2016 Winter

    Brett McCracken — 

    Faculty, students and young alumni are not just learning about science in the classroom. They’re doing science in the laboratory. As Biola...

  • 2016 Winter

    Write Quick: Winter 2016

    Q-and-A with professor Fred Sanders

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    A brief interview with Fred Sanders (professor, Torrey Honors College), author of How God Used R.A. Torrey: A Short Biography as Told Through His...

  • 2016 Winter

    From the Alumni Office: Winter 2016

    How to help our students while honoring a professor

    Rick Bee — 

    As we close in on the $180 million goal of “A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage: The Campaign for Biola University,” we are taking the “show...

  • 2016 Winter

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Confucius for Christians: What an Ancient Chinese Worldview Can Teach Us about Life in Christ, by Gregg Ten Elshof (professor of philosophy),...

  • 2016 Winter

    Jason Newell — 

    A couple of years ago, Biola put up a series of billboards across Southern California, including a large one not far from John Wayne Airport. Each...

  • 2016 Winter

    Barry Corey — 

    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...