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  • Biola Magazine

    Get to Know: Summer 2014

    Octavio Esqueda, country-crossing researcher and futbol fan

    Amber Amaya — 

    Octavio Esqueda doesn’t buy into the culture of busyness. “Tiempo es oro,” he says. “Time is gold.” Time is precious. The veteran professor values...

  • Biola Magazine

    Living Life Under the Sun

    Diane Vincent — 

    This issue’s Last Word comes from the Torrey Honors Institute’s Scriptorium Daily blog (scriptoriumdaily.com), where it was originally published...

  • Biola Magazine

    The Need for ‘Urban Apologetics’

    'To many of my urban pastor peers, apologetics seemed far too detached from the church work they were doing on a daily basis'

    Christopher Brooks — 

    When I first became active in apologetics — the art of commending and defending the Christian faith — I quickly realized that in the minds of most...

  • Biola Magazine

    How Can We Be Better Disagree-ers?

    Professor Tim Muehlhoff, author of I Beg to Differ, shares how to tackle tough conversations

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Whether in the boardroom or the bedroom, on Twitter or TV, disagreement is a fact of life. And unfortunately, it’s often handled badly — resulting...

  • Biola Magazine

    The Fundamentals vs. 'fundamentalism'

    The Fundamentals publishing project is a part of the history of fundamentalism in America, to be sure, yet the two words are also different in important ways

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    When talking about The Fundamentals, it’s important to recognize a distinction from “fundamentalism” as it is understood both in history and in...

  • Biola Magazine

    The Untold Story of The Fundamentals

    A century ago, Biola founder Lyman Stewart anonymously funded a hugely influential set of essays known as The Fundamentals. Archived letters and documents shed light on how Stewart and others helped to shape the face of evangelicalism today.

    Paul Rood — 

    A remarkable literary project of the early 20th century, The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, is soon approaching the 100th anniversary of...

  • Biola Magazine

    Home Away From Home

    The Collegium, which opened 10 years ago this fall to serve Biola’s growing off-campus community, is one of the most elegant and inviting spaces on campus

    Jason Newell — 

    For many years, Biola’s commuter students didn’t have much of a place to go between classes, meaning they often had to resort — resort to hang out...

  • Biola Magazine

    Spring Sports Highlights

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Softball Biola’s softball team made the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) postseason for the first time since 2002, but was...

  • Biola Magazine

    Deep Roots, Deep Faith

    Suzanne Crowell honored with Ruby Award for commitment to Biola

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    Spend an afternoon with Suzanne Crowell and it’s easy to see why she is this year’s Anna Horton Ruby Award recipient. Her tenacity and commitment...

  • Biola Magazine

    Crowell School of Business Welcomes New Dean

    Six things to know about Gary Lindblad

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    On July 1, Biola’s Crowell School of Business welcomed Gary Lindblad as its new dean. Lindblad, who has directed the MBA program at the Paul Merage...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola’s First Feature Film Wins Top Prize at Festival

    Professor and filmmaker Dean Yamada talks about the success of Cicada

    Brett McCracken — 

    This spring, Biola University premiered its first-ever feature-length film, Cicada , produced by faculty, students and alumni of the cinema and...

  • Biola Magazine

    Back to the #ProtFuture

    ‘Future of Protestantism’ discussion draws crowd, sparks online discussion

    Brett McCracken — 

    La Mirada felt a little bit like Wittenberg or Geneva on April 29. The eyes of the evangelical theological world focused on Biola’s Calvary...

  • Biola Magazine

    Warrens Inspire Graduates, Receive Honorary Degrees

    Chuck Colson also honored posthumously at spring commencement ceremony

    Brett McCracken — 

    Biola celebrated the largest graduating class in university history in May, awarding nearly 1,000 degrees during a spring commencement that...

  • Biola Magazine

    Firm Centers and Soft Edges

    Barry Corey — 

    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

    Blest from the Past

    Editor's Note

    Jason Newell — 

    The cracked and worn booklets that grace this issue’s cover may not look like much today. But a century ago, their humble pages were helping to...

  • The Good Book Blog

    What Was Herod Thinking?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear Dr. Craig, In his debate with you and, on pp. 175 & 211 in his book "Jesus is Dead," Dr. Robert Price argues that the notion of resurrections are likely not all that unexpected in 2nd Temple Judaism and/or totally absent from the 1st century Jewish world view. He specifically cites the case of some wondering if Jesus is the resurrected John the Baptist. Beyond your answer that points out Price's essential category error (resurrected mere men are not the same thing as the expectation of a resurrected Messiah), could you please elaborate further as to why the two instances (Jesus mistaken as John resurrected and Jewish allowances for a dying & resurrected God) are wholly distinct?

  • Biola News

    Biola Welcomes New Professors

    Two deans and 22 new professors join the Biola community

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Biola University’s faculty has grown by 24 this fall, including two new deans —Gary Lindblad, dean of Biola’s Crowell School of Business, and...

  • Biola News

    Biola Women's Cross Country Team Starts Season as National No. 1

    For the second year, NAIA names Biola women's cross country as top-ranked program

    Neil Morgan — 

    Biola is no stranger to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' top-25 coaches' poll, but it is rare air to find itself at No. 1 in...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Non-Israelite Followers of YHWH in the Old Testament

    Charlie Trimm — 

    My previous posts have looked at several examples of the different ways God interacted with non-Israelite nations. Ken Berding suggested that I compile a list of the non-Israelite followers of YHWH in the Old Testament. Without further ado, here they are.

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Authority of the Bible, Part One

    David Horner — 

    How could it be reasonable to base my life on an ancient book (the Bible was written between 2000 and 3500 years ago)? Indeed, how could it be reasonable to base my life on any book? I should think for myself. To live by someone else’s instructions is to surrender my own mind and personality. That approach produces mindless drones, cultists and terrorists. Yet for two millennia, followers of Jesus from every culture and language have followed the Bible as their authority, from simple folks to some of history’s most influential scholars and intellectuals, from poor people with no political power to those in positions of great influence. And the world is radically different as a result.

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Reality of Time

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dr. Craig, You have played a vital role in my apologetic development, a long with other philosophers. I am puzzled by the fact that a lot of things are taken for granted although examining their legitimacy is the job of philosophy, thus I need to ask you, why do you believe in time in the first place? Isn't just an idea in our mind that helps us locate an event in relation to our experience? I do not get older because of time, but because of my biological development and entropic reality. These are physical constituents of the Universe that entail space and mass in a dynamical interaction. Moreover, the elements that shape events already exist in our universe, to say the time for x has not yet come, is strictly to say that the physical conditions for x to occur is not satisfied yet by the gathered factors. Can you help me identify what I could be missing here, please?

  • The Good Book Blog

    Jars of Clay

    Joy Mosbarger — 

    Have you ever felt like a failure? Inadequate? Ineffectual? Have you ever examined your heart and glimpsed sin and darkness and defeat? I have. It is discouraging and demoralizing. It makes me wonder what God sees in me. There is no doubt that I am a flawed vessel. But does that mean that I am a useless vessel?

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Morality of the Current Conflict in Israel

    Mitch Glaser — 

    Perhaps the real question our friends are asking is this: “What impact does our faith as Messianic Jews have on our support of Israel?” This is a fair question, and it is a reasonable assumption that most Jews who believe in Jesus support the Jewish state.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Questions about Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear Dr. Craig, I have been arguing with a friend that is an atheist. I am also an atheist or perhaps more correctly, an agnostic about Leibniz’s cosmological argument ... If after sufficient research, Leibniz’s argument proves more plausibly true than false, than on the basis of it and the abductive argument for the historicity of Christ's resurrection, I'm prepared to take Pascal's Wager.

  • Biola News

    New Public Relations Major Expands Student Opportunities

    Industry growth and student interest fuels new public relations major

    Camryn Hudson — 

    Public relations is one of the fastest-growing careers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. With increased employment opportunities in the...