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  • Biola News

    Students to be Inducted into Biola University’s Honor Society

    Jessica Airey — 

    Epsilon Kappa Epsilon (EKE), Biola’s honor society, will induct 32 new students this spring during the 2012 commencement ceremony. The following...

  • Biola News

    Student Awarded Full Year’s Tuition

    President’s Scholarship covers 100 percent of tuition for one full year

    Jessica Airey — 

    Biola University annually grants one student a President’s Scholarship that covers tuition expenses for a full year. During a campus chapel service...

  • Biola News

    'Five Stories Up' Student Created Web Series Highlights Campus Talent

    Student web series wins two LA Web Fest awards

    Mark Nesbitt — 

    Good music has the ability to get people dancing, mend broken hearts, bring people together and cause quite the stir on YouTube. Two Biola students...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Everybody Can Learn!

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    Formal education at educational institutions has become in many ways the most popular understood form of education that in general we have the tendency to equate our ability to learn with our GPA or success at school. In this way, if adults earned good grades at educational institutions, it is assumed they “know” how to learn because they were good students. For this reason, this kind of people perceive favorably words like “Bible study” or “Sunday school” and usually they like to be involved in them.

  • Biola News

    Sacred Spaces of Los Angeles Bus Tour – Sat April 21, 2012

    Don Bernstein — 

    What a fascinating day students, friends and alumni spent in April touring four different worship spaces in the Los Angeles area. From St. Mark’s...

  • Biola News

    Students discuss presidential election with KKLA’s Frank Pastore

    Scott Waller and four students shared their thoughts on big ticket items of presidential election

    Abbey Bennett — 

    Professor of political science, Scott Waller, invited four of his students to join him on the Frank Pastore Show May 17, 2012. The students each...

  • Biola News

    Pastor Appreciation Lunch Attracts 450 Pastors

    Biola hosts two KKLA events in one day

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    CEO and cofounder of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, addressed more than 450 pastors at the 14th annual KKLA pastors luncheon hosted by Biola...

  • Biola News

    Grateful Seniors Reflect on their Biola Experience

    Video: Graduates express gratitude for their college education

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Life long friendships, professors who care and unforgettable dorm experiences are just a few of the reasons Biola students are thankful for their...

  • Biola News

    Biola basketball star shines on and off the court

    Andre Murillo seeks Christ in everything since his radical transformation

    Mark Nesbitt — 

    Each week, as the Biola basketball team charges up and down the court, junior captain Andre Murillo pours his heart and soul into the game. But it...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Where's the Gift?

    John McKinley — 

    I heard recently that the Jewish and (East) Indian mentalities expect life to be full of difficulties and pain as a matter of course. The American mentality expects the opposite: a happy life overall, and usually an improvement over the previous generation. Americanism includes the idea that we may, through hard work, ingenuity, and divine blessing, avoid pain and lack that others suffer. Some American Christians have even preached that material prosperity in this life, including healing of all physical ills, is God’s will for His people. Reality, however, counts against the so-called prosperity gospel.

  • Biola News

    Women’s volleyball and tennis teams use sports to serve

    Biola athletics impact the local community

    Tenielle Schroeder and Ashleigh Fox — 

    The women’s tennis and volleyball teams have eagerly adopted Biola’s mission to impact the world for Christ by using their God-given talents to...

  • Biola News

    Best of #BMC12 Tweets

    Mark Nesbitt — 

    Biola Media Conference inspires Christians in the film industry.

  • Biola News

    'Sparkle’ Producer, DeVon Franklin, Receives Biola Media Award

    VP of Columbia Pictures honored at annual Biola Media Conference

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Producer, author, writer and filmmaker, DeVon Franklin, was awarded the Biola Media Award — an award honoring Christian individuals who reflect...

  • Biola News

    Biola commemorates Rwandan Genocide and Jewish Holocaust

    Professor Judith Rood welcomed renowned guests for second annual awareness week

    Abbey Bennett — 

    Those affected by genocide and holocaust are in our midst here at Biola. Students, professors and even alumni have personal stories about their...

  • Biola News

    Talbot’s MA Philosophy Program Celebrates 20 Years

    Co-founder Scott Rae shares history of philosophy program

    Ashleigh Fox — 

    Twenty years ago, Scott Rae and J.P. Moreland co-founded the philosophy program at Biola’s Talbot School of Theology with a main concern to “equip...

  • Biola News

    Biola professor discusses the similarities between Christian and non-Christian adoption

    Motivation for adopting goes deeper than trendsetting

    Ashleigh Fox — 

    California leads the nation in the adoption count, according to the Intercountry Adoption Bureau of Consular Affairs under the U.S. Department of...

  • Biola News

    Biola provides opportunities for recovery and healing from sexual violence

    Sexual Violence Awareness Week gives voice to victims

    Ashleigh Fox — 

    Biola University participated in Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in April by hosting a Sexual Violence Awareness week on campus April 23-27....

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Futility of Footnotes?

    Kenneth Way — 

    I was recently reflecting on my doctoral training and I realized that I learned a few things (ten, to be precise) beyond the actual subject matter of my discipline. For starters, I learned that footnotes can be overdone.

  • Biola News

    Freshman swimmer breaks NAIA record

    Biola races with success at national championships

    Jessica Airey — 

    With a pair of top eight finishes, the Biola University men’s and women’s swim teams enjoyed a fruitful season ending at the NAIA National...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Paul is not Talking about Himself: Why I take the "pre-Christian" Reading of Romans 7:14-25

    Gary Manning Jr — 

    Earlier this semester, my good friend Ken Berding and I were discussing the different views on Romans 7:14-25 and decided that we would each write a blog post summarizing our reasons for holding opposing views on the passage. Last week, Ken gave a great defense of the view that Romans 7:14-25 is autobiographical and is thus about the Christian struggle with sin. I found Ken’s reasons 3, 6 and 7 very strong (Ken also gave a fine experiential discussion of that struggle in an earlier post). As Ken pointed out, there are many smart people on both sides of this issue, so this is not a “slam-dunk” interpretational problem. Throughout Christian history, there have been several opinions about what Paul meant in this passage. The two main options are 1) Paul is referring to his own experience as a Christian, and therefore the general Christian experience; or 2) Paul is referring to the experience of a pre-Christian Jew trying to obey the Law.

  • Biola News

    Alumna Creates Art Piece for Los Angeles Riots Anniversary

    Museum of Tolerance to host the multi-dimensional art installation

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Wrapping plaster vessels in bubble wrap, artist and alumna Maggie Hazen (’10) prepared to transport her art installation piece commemorating the...

  • Biola News

    Clothing Drive Benefits L.A. Women at The Dream Center

    Biola University women lead project

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    In honor of National Women’s History month and to help unemployed Los Angeles women at the Dream Center, Biola University held a clothing drive to...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Book on Biblical Theology

    Mickey Klink III — 

    In an earlier post I mentioned a book on biblical theology that my colleague and I had nearly finished writing. The book is finally finished, and is entitled: Understanding BIblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice (Zondervan).

  • Biola News

    Kids Tennis Day 2012 draws record number of young students

    Biola’s men’s and women’s varsity tennis teams welcome kids and teach them to play tennis

    Abbey Bennett — 

    On March 30, Biola’s men’s and women’s tennis teams hosted Kids Tennis Day 2012, the largest event of its kind on a college campus. For the third...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Defining a Multi-ethnic Church

    Gary McIntosh — 

    What sounds like a simple task at first often turns out to be much more difficult in practice. Such is the situation when attempting to define a multiethnic church. For example, a brief survey of the current literature reveals four words that are commonly used to describe churches where the people come from diverse backgrounds: “multinational,” “multi-racial,” “multi-ethnic,” and “multicultural.”