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  • Biola Magazine

    Where Are They Now?: Fall 2014

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    In 1959, Rose ( Loukojarvi , ’60) Dane was one of the first students to attend Biola’s brand new campus in La Mirada, after having attended the...

  • Biola Magazine

    Get to Know: Fall 2014

    Carolyn Kim, cookie-baking PR professional

    Kristina Nishi — 

    As the driving force behind the new public relations major — which she launched and currently leads — journalism professor Carolyn Kim plays a...

  • Biola Magazine

    ISIS at the Door

    An interview with David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, about Christian persecution across the world

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Religious freedom and persecution are challenges starting to face believers in the West, but it has been a reality for Christians globally for a...

  • Biola Magazine

    Unspeakable Joy

    Betsy Barber — 

    Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah, and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted...

  • Biola Magazine

    Three Athletes Inducted into Biola's Hall of Fame

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The Biola University Athletics Department inducted its third set of distinguished athletes into its Hall of Fame on Sept. 13, 2014. The newest...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola and Christian Community Credit Union Form Alliance to Fund Scholarships

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola University has formed an alliance with Christian Community Credit Union to offer Biolans a new opportunity to help support scholarships....

  • Biola Magazine

    Did Luke Mess Up on the Timing of the Christmas Story?

    Mikel Del Rosario — 

    Each Christmas, I hear the story of Jesus’ birth read publicly from the Gospel of Luke. And it often seems like the timing of Jesus’ birth and the...

  • Biola Magazine

    How Can We Build Better Marriages?

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    It’s no secret that marriage is on the decline in America. But even for those who know the general trends, the statistics can be surprising....

  • Biola Magazine

    Quick View

    The Freedom to be a Christian College

    Brett McCracken — 

    The philosophical question Are Christian institutions free to practice their faith as they believe Scripture calls them to, without government...

  • Biola Magazine

    At Secular Universities, How "Christian" Can Christian Clubs Be?

    Brett McCracken — 

    Nowhere is pluralism more frequently preached as a prized value than on today’s secular college campuses. And yet some Christian campus...

  • Biola Magazine

    The Freedom to be a Christian College

    Brett McCracken — 

    As religious convictions are met with new legal challenges, what's at stake for schools like Biola? What happens when the Christian conscience...

  • Biola Magazine

    Athletic Booster Club Debuts

    Eagles Athletic Association seeks to raise support for Biola's student athletes

    Brett McCracken — 

    For the nearly 300 student athletes playing on Biola University’s 19 athletics teams, winning on the field is only half the battle. Affording to...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola Named Among America's Top 'Up and Coming' Schools

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    U.S. News and World Report has identified Biola University as one of America’s top 10 “up and coming” national universities — an honor given...

  • Biola Magazine

    Sculpted Scripture

    New public sculpture offers an artistic call to action

    Heather Leith — 

    When Tom Tsuchiya was asked to submit an entry for a contest to create the first permanent public sculpture at Biola, he first looked at his...

  • Biola Magazine

    Cook School of Intercultural Studies Welcomes New Dean

    Nine things to know about Bulus Galadima

    Heather Leith — 

    On July 15, Biola’s Cook School of Intercultural Studies welcomed Bulus Galadima as its new dean. A native Nigerian, Galadima brings four degrees...

  • Biola Magazine

    Forming More Perfect Unions

    Biola launches new Center for Marriage and Relationships

    Lauren Frey — 

    This fall, Biola University launched the Center for Marriage and Relationships, a new endeavor that seeks to address one of the most pertinent...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Receivable University

    President's Perspective

    Barry Corey — 

    It’s a story far longer than I have time to tell entirely, but one day when I was in my late 20s and trying to make sense of the world, my father...

  • Biola Magazine

    Faithfulness, Not Fear

    Editor's Note

    Jason Newell — 

    In his important and influential 2010 book To Change the World, Christian sociologist James Davison Hunter cautions evangelicals against the...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Faith and Works

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig. "... You might say that there are objective moral values and they need to be followed regardless of the fact that they do affect our salvation or not. Bible and Jesus also teach us to do good deeds. I agree with these assertions but the question still lingers for a person like me and many others (people who are primarily concerned with the bottom line result) that why do we have to take moral commandments/values so seriously when ultimately they are not going to count in our 'scoring sheet' in the hereafter. Of course there are objective moral values and Bible & Jesus Christ teach us to be good human beings. But Bible/Jesus Christ teach us lot of good things and no Christian can claim to fully adhere to these teachings. This is what evangelical Christianity teaches us that whatever good we do, we cannot merit God's salvation which is an unmerited gift and comes with faith alone ..."

  • Biola News

    Biola Tennis Team Hosts 36th Annual Tennis Tournament

    Alumni, wheelchair, and novice players come together to compete and socialize

    Brieana Jordan — 

    Biola University’s tennis program held its 36th Annual Tennis Tournament in November to raise money for its program. A total of 64 players ranging...

  • Biola News

    Art Professor’s Photography Exhibition Receives National Attention

    Kurt Simonson To Display “Northwoods Journals” in Portland’s Newspace Center for Photography

    Stephen Day — 

    Biola University associate professor of photography Kurt Simonson’s “ Northwoods Journals ” exhibit is on display in Newspace Center for...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Fine-Tuning and the Prior Probability of Theism

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig: I'm taking a philosophy class at a local community collage. I wrote a paper on the fine-tuning argument presented by Robin Collins. The fine tuning is improbable given atheism. Here we have all of the number for fine tuning for life given by Collins. But my professor raised an objection that I have never heard before, namely what is the probability of God? His objection is that if have a probability for the fine tuning we need a probability to compare it to. Since we don't have a clear one, why should we conclude that God is more likely than atheistic fine tuning? If you could help me understand this I would greatly appreciate it. I can understand that it seems like a very reasonable thing to think God is not as unlikely as the fine tuning but is there a strong philosophical argument or case to be made here?

  • The Good Book Blog

    Evolution Without God

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig: While taking an anthropology course at San Jose State University about 10 years ago, the instructor took a poll on the first day of class asking students if that we were there because: 1) God created the world that we know including humans in their present form. 2) God guiding evolution to present times. 3) Evolution without God via chance and natural selection. The instructor ended the survey by saying that by the end of the course he would convince the class that #3 is, in fact, the truth. One of the examples that he used was the argument involving vestigial limbs and body parts. He pointed to humans resembling tadpoles with tails in the embryo state, whales with hip joints, dogs with toes high on their legs that are useless, genetic trail showing that a horse's hoof is really the middle toe that continued to grow longer than the others, etc. I would love to hear Dr. Craig's answer to such evidence. I have been strengthened by your ministry and I will continue to support it. Please feel free to paraphrase my question to correct any grammatical errors.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Christmas in November?

    Gary Manning Jr — 

    Merry Christmas! Today, November 18, is Jesus' birthday, according to a few ancient sources. A few years ago, I came across an interesting article about the date of Jesus' birth by Paul Meier, a prominent New Testament scholar. Here is a summary: We celebrate Jesus' birthday on December 25, but it is quite unlikely that he was born on that day. That date was picked out in the fourth century, possibly as a replacement celebration for the winter solstice or other pagan holidays. Paul Meier suggests a birthday in November. This is based on two pieces of data....

  • The Good Book Blog

    Reflexiones del Pasado y Presente Sobre la Reforma en Hispano América

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    Hace unos días tuve el privilegio de participar en el IV Congreso sobre la Reforma Protestante Española que tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense en Madrid, España. Este importante congreso internacional tuvo como tema principal la Reforma en Hispano América. Entre los participantes se encontraban profesores, historiadores y eruditos para dialogar acerca de la influencia del protestantismo en América Latina y su relación con la reforma española. Aunque el número de participantes no eran tan numeroso, el significado de esta reunión y los temas tratados son de suma importancia y son relevantes para nuestros días. Me gustaría compartir en este espacio algunas reflexiones sobre el pasado y el presente basadas principalmente en los temas tratados en este congreso.