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• Biola Magazine

  Shepherds with Hammers

  How professor Albert Yee thinks biblically about engineering

  Brett McCracken — March 26, 2015

  If you put an ichthys sticker on a hammer, does that make it a “Christian hammer”? That’s a question that helped Albert Yee, associate professor...

• Biola Magazine

  Can Multiethnic Churches Become the ‘New Normal’?

  Alumnus Bryan Loritts is leading a movement to build multiethnic unity in the body of Christ

  Biola Magazine Staff — March 26, 2015

  In late 2014, race became the conversation in America. A pair of controversial decisions not to prosecute police officers for the high-profile...

• Biola Magazine

  Captain America

  Amy Weststeyn named national volleyball player of the year

  Neil Morgan — March 26, 2015

  Amy Weststeyn is known for going vertical for Biola on the volleyball court, and in December she reached a new all-time high for the university’s...

• Biola Magazine

  Online Giving Made Easy

  With rise in philanthropy, Biola debuts new giving website

  Biola Magazine Staff — March 26, 2015

  Universities today produce some of the most compelling people and inspiring thoughts. Yet most universities have decidedly uninspiring giving...

• Biola Magazine

  Biola to Launch Master’s Program in Professional Accountancy

  New graduate degree equips future CPAs

  Jason Newell — March 26, 2015

  Biola University will launch a Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcc) degree this fall — a new graduate program designed to prepare students...

• Biola Magazine

  Starting Them Young

  Biola launches new K-12 “satellite program” for homeschool students

  Jason Newell — March 26, 2015

  As thousands of families already know, Biola University isn’t just for university students. For the past two decades, Biola Youth has been...

• Biola Magazine

  Opening the Gates

  To attend her dream school, Mary Tatlock hoped for a dream scholarship

  Biola Magazine Staff — March 26, 2015

  Good Friday 2014 was especially good for Mary Tatlock. It was the day the freshman intercultural studies major received mail that would change her...

• Biola Magazine

  The Chimes Earns National Recognition

  Student newspaper wins Online Pacemaker award for second consecutive year

  Biola Magazine Staff — March 26, 2015

  Biola’s student newspaper, The Chimes , won the Online Pacemaker Award on Nov. 1 at the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and College Media...

• Biola Magazine

  L.A. Stands for 'Locating Atonement'

  Biola hosts third annual Los Angeles Theology Conference

  Brett McCracken — March 26, 2015

  How should Christians understand the doctrine of the atonement in a broader systematic theological context? This was the question of the moment...

• Biola Magazine

  Biola Grieves Death of Student on Mission Trip

  Jason Newell — March 26, 2015

  Hasiet Joy Negash spent her final days on earth living out a dream. Alongside a team from Biola’s Student Missionary Union, Negash traveled to...

• 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

  Sizing Us Up

  Editor's Note

  Jason Newell — March 26, 2015

  If you’re a regular reader of Biola Magazine, you may have already noticed some differences in this issue. For one thing, you’re not having to...

• The Good Book Blog

  How I Remember My Father

  Mark Saucy — March 26, 2015

  There are many memories I will treasure of my father, Robert Saucy, but I will write about only one now that has most profoundly impacted me—I believe, for all eternity. It was Dad’s passion for God’s Word.

• Biola News

  University Hosts 10th Annual Visual Arts Conference

  Conference attendees explored relationship between technology and art

  Mystiana Victorino — March 23, 2015

  Instagram has 300 million active users, garnering about 70 million posts per day, and instructional books have been written on the craft of...

• The Good Book Blog

  Is Worship of Jesus Idolatry?

  William Lane Craig — March 20, 2015

  Hello Dr. Craig, ... I am a student of philosophy looking to go into apologetics ministry. In my studies and my time witnessing I've had to address many of the common objections to Christianity. One of the more recent objections has come from a Jewish man that I am witnessing to. It seems that one of the crucial things that is holding him back is the worship of Jesus. He couldn't see any way how this wouldn't end up being idolatry because, as he claimed, “you would be worshiping man rather than God”. Of course, I tried to point out that Jesus has two natures but it seems like this point was missed. Do you have any helpful ways to explain our worship of Jesus in a way that bypasses this objection? How should we understand our worship of Jesus? Do we worship him in deity and merely admire his humanity? ...

• Biola News

  Biola Honors Four Women During National Women's History Month

  The 8th annual Ruby Awards ceremony and luncheon featured alumna, author Halee Gray Scott

  Kayla Joy Mele — March 20, 2015

  Biola University honored four women with one of four Ruby Awards at this year’s women’s conference, “Dare Mighty Things,” in honor of National...

• The Good Book Blog

  Memorial Service for Dr. Robert L. Saucy

  The Good Book Blog — March 19, 2015

  A memorial service for Dr. Robert L. Saucy will be held on Sunday, March 29, 2015, 2-4 p.m. in the Chase Gymnasium at Biola University. A reception will immediately follow. For those who would like to attend and cannot be physically present, the service will be streamed live at http://watch.biola.edu/bobsaucy ...

• Biola News

  Biola Student Elected as President for National Public Relations Association

  Laura Daronatsy is first Biola student elected to serve as president for Public Relations Student Society of America

  Quinn Clark — March 19, 2015

  Biola University junior Laura Daronatsy has been elected to serve as the 2015-2016 national president for the Public Relations Student Society of...

• The Good Book Blog

  Have We Been Sold a Homiletical Bill of Goods? (Using Biblical Illustrations)

  Don Sunukjian — March 17, 2015

  The time to teach a biblical story is when it is the primary passage for your message, not when it is a secondary illustration of another passage. In other words, you should preach the story Joseph and his brothers as part of a series through Genesis, and not as an illustration of Romans 8:28.

• The Good Book Blog

  My Dad: Five Years After He Passed Away

  Octavio Esqueda — March 16, 2015

  It has been five years since my dad, Javier Esqueda, passed away unexpectedly. The huge hole my family have without him will continue for the rest of our lives and it has been very hard to get used to the idea that he is not with us anymore. I still struggle to refer to my dad in the past tense when in casual conversations his name comes up, but I am sadly conscious that the present and the future will continue without him. My mom could have celebrated her 45 wedding anniversary last December, my two brothers could have celebrated their college graduations with their proud dad, my two children could have enjoyed their granddad (who I am sure would have spoiled them a lot), and I could have had the total support of a man who would advise me always, looking for my best interest; but all of these things were not and will never be possible.

• The Good Book Blog

  Mi Papá: Cinco Años Ya de Su Partida / My Dad: Five Years After He Passed Away

  Octavio Esqueda — March 16, 2015

  Hace ya cinco años que mi papá, Javier Esqueda, falleció inesperadamente. El gran vacío que nos dejó sigue y seguirá presente por el resto de nuestras vidas y es muy difícil resignarse a su ausencia. Cuando en conversaciones casuales sale el tema de mi papá me cuesta trabajo referirme a él en el pasado, pero estoy tristemente consciente que el presente y el futuro seguirán sin su presencia. Mi mamá habría celebrado 45 años de casada el pasado diciembre, mis dos hermanos habrían celebrado sus graduaciones de la universidad con su orgulloso papá, mis dos hijos se habrían gozado con su abuelito que estoy seguro los habría consentido muchísimo y yo tendría el apoyo y el oído total de un hombre que me amara incondicionalmente y me daría sus consejos totalmente desinteresados buscando siempre lo mejor para mí, pero todo esto no pudo ni podrá ser ...

• Biola News

  Professor Named Journalism Educator of the Year by the California Journalism Educators Coalition

  Michael Longinow recognized for excellence as an educator at the annual Associated Collegiate Press West Coast Convention

  Rachel Allan — March 16, 2015

  Biola University journalism professor Michael Longinow was named the university division Journalism Educator of the Year by the California...

• Biola News

  Biola Journalism Department Partners with Nonprofit to Establish Journalism Program in Haiti

  A team of journalism students and faculty travel to Haiti to train students in visual media skills

  Rachel Allan — March 16, 2015

  For the first time ever, Biola University’s journalism and integrated media department has partnered with New Missions, a Florida-based nonprofit,...

• The Good Book Blog

  A Tribute to Dr. Robert Saucy

  The Good Book Blog — March 13, 2015

  A tribute to our beloved brother in Christ, Dr. Robert Saucy, who went home to be with the Lord on March 12, 2015.

• The Good Book Blog

  What to Do Now that I'm Convinced?

  William Lane Craig — March 13, 2015

  I am a physician (pulmonology) and, until recently, a lifelong atheist, although one who saw great non-religious value in Judeo-Christian culture and civilization. I became increasingly convinced by the moral arguments that atheism could not lead to a society with moral values and thus by the moral arguments for God. Your site, and debates and your Reasonable Faith book, along with CS Lewis and other reading, now have me convinced in at least the likelihood of Christianity. My question is what are the next best steps for someone who has taken this rarer intellectual path towards Christianity? As someone who never attended Church, who has no preferred denomination or family tradition, it is a bit hard to know where to begin. Any advice would be welcomed. Thank you very much for your incredibly useful site and work and the clarity of thinking behind it ...