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  • Biola News

    Biola Shakes it Out with Full-Scale Earthquake Drill

    The State Office of Emergency selected Biola as this year's featured Great ShakeOut exercise

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Biola University at 9:40 a.m. this morning — at least hypothetically. Biola hosted a full-scale mass casualty...

  • The Good Book Blog

    ¿Cómo Disentir Sin Ofender? / How Can We Kindly Disagree?

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    Recuerdo que mi padre solía decir con frecuencia “cada cabeza es un mundo” cuando se refería a las diferentes maneras de pensar y actuar entre las personas. Por esta razón, la comunicación es parte básica de las relaciones humanas. No se puede establecer ninguna relación importante y duradera sin que exista una comunicación fluida en la que se intercambien ideas y opiniones. La diversidad de percepciones nos abre la puerta a las relaciones saludables a través de la comunicación, pero al mismo tiempo crea la posibilidad de conflicto. Así que, es importante que todos en general, pero esencial para los líderes, que aprendamos a disentir sin ofender.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Teaching Bible Fluency: Using Classes and Videos

    Kenneth Berding — 

    Are you as concerned about the growing problem of biblical illiteracy as I am? We Christians have more Bible-focused resources available to us than has any generation of Christians in the history of the world. Despite this we are literally—from a spiritual standpoint—starving ourselves to death. Would you like your church, adult Bible class, youth group, or small group to reach Bible fluency by pursuing an Old Testament Fluency in 12 Weeks class or a New Testament Fluency in 12 Weeks class using the free resources at biblefluency.com? Here’s how.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Does the Atonement Imply Universalism?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dr Craig, I'm growing more skeptical about Christianity and was wondering if you could answer a question about the gospel. When Jesus was on the cross He either paid for all sin or some sin. To pay for some sin would mean limited atonement which is not what scripture teaches. But if Jesus paid for all sin then why are some people who are in Hell paying for their sin? ...

  • Biola News

    Senior Becky Hartung’s Debut Novel to Publish this Winter

    Student to speak at the 79th Annual Torrey Conference.

    Stephen Day — 

    Senior communications major and Torrey Conference speaker, Becky Hartung, recently self-published her first novel “Running in the Dark” — an...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Efesios 4 y la Descripción Sobre Cómo Debe Funcionar la Iglesia de Dios / Ephesians 4 and How the Church Should Function

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    La carta del apóstol Pablo a los Efesios representa uno de los documentos doctrinales más importantes del cristianismo. En los primeros tres capítulos Pablo explica lo maravilloso del amor y la gracia divina que nos dio vida a través de Jesucristo cuando todos estábamos muertos en nuestros pecados. En Jesús también, el Dios de toda gracia nos ha bendecido con toda bendición espiritual. Los cristianos somos adoptados en la familia de Dios, encontramos aceptación, redención, perdón, sabiduría, una herencia eterna que está garantizada por el Espíritu Santo.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Achieving Bible Fluency: Using Music, Visuals, and a Workbook

    Kenneth Berding — 

    What does it take to achieve Bible Fluency? In my next two posts I will guide you through how to use a brand new free resource called Bible Fluency: Sing it, See it, Study it, found at biblefluency.com. This first post seeks to answer the question: How can I use music, visuals, and a workbook to help me learn to think my way through the Bible?

  • The Good Book Blog

    A Review on Left Behind

    Alan Hultberg — 

    I recently previewed the upcoming Nicholas Cage film, Left Behind, based on the books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The film centers on the chaos that ensues after the instantaneous disappearance of millions of people worldwide due to the coming of Christ for his church, an event known as “the rapture.”

  • Biola News

    Biola University Ranked One of the Nation's Top 5 Safest Schools

    Nationwide Survey Ranks Biola Fourth Safest School in the Nation

    Daniel Batchman — 

    Biola University has been ranked the fourth-safest university in the United States by Niche, an organization that provides rankings and statistics...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Does Quantum Mechanics Indicate an Eternal Universe?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Q: I listened to your debate with Sean Carroll, read your post-debate threads, interacted with Aron Wall and Luke Barnes, and have determined that you haven't yet responded to Carroll's Quantum Eternity point against premise 2 of the kalam, "under conventional quantum mechanics, any universe with a non-zero energy and a time-independent Hamiltonian will necessarily last forever toward both the past and the future." Aron Wall confirmed that this point is independent of one's stance towards an A or B theory of time. Wall mentions on his blog that one could try to argue that the total energy of the universe is zero, but Barnes and others don't think this is the case. Do you have any response yet to Carroll on this? Even better would be a response that presupposes that the net energy of the universe is non-zero.

  • Biola News

    Random Acts Of Culture Brings Music and Art to the Heart of Biola

    Biola's Conservatory of Music and Center for Christianity, Culture, and the Arts merge to create dynamic acts of culture around campus.

    Grace Hansen — 

    A quiet Friday morning on Biola’s campus in September was interrupted by the tinkling of a toy piano. As the unusual sound drew a crowd, Jonah...

  • Biola News

    Biola Feature "Cicada" Wins Grand Jury Prize at Guam International Film Festival

    Cinema & Media Arts Professor Dean Yamada’s "Cicada" continues its film festival tour as he works on his second feature project

    Stephen Day — 

    Biola University's student-produced feature film “Cicada” won the grand jury prize for Best Narrative Feature at the Guam International Film...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Is the Theistic Anti-Realist in a Predicament?

    William Lane Craig — 

    "First, even though I am an atheist, I have learned a lot from you by reading your responses in Q&A and watching your debates. Even though you sometimes make my blood boil with your views, there are several areas of agreement. One of these is your nominalist (or anti-realist) position concerning abstract objects, which you recently discussed in your Q & A on God and Infinity. My question, however, concerns the implications of your nominalist view, which I think leaves you in an uncomfortable position regarding your ontology of beauty and possibly your moral ontology ..."

  • Biola News

    Professor Monica Cure on Postcards, Fulbright Research and Traveling the Globe

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Professor Monica Cure may be an aficionado of postcards, but her credentials go past connoisseur or collector. As one that has traveled the globe...

  • The Good Book Blog

    If ISIS’s God Were Real, Would I Be Obliged to Follow Him?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear Dr Craig, You may be aware that Frank Turek has a question he will sometimes ask atheists, "if Christianity were true, would you become a Christian"? Well, recently, an atheist flipped this question around and asked me "If the Islamic State were true (by which he means, if the specific type of Allah that IS believe in, existed) then likewise, would you become an IS member?" ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Giving Thanks: Spiritual Formation Assignment, Part 1

    Charlie Trimm — 

    Half of my teaching load each semester consists of teaching the required freshman class Biblical Interpretation and Spiritual Formation. Although I thought the combination of these two topics in one class was strange when I first read the job posting, the class has grown on me and I now love teaching it. I see the connection as leading from proper reading of the Bible to spiritual formation: the very structure of the class helps prevent us from merely reading the Bible in an academic fashion. We spend a large part of the semester looking at the different genres of the Bible (law, prophecy, etc.) and then we reflect on spiritual formation topics related to those genres (such as legalism and idolatry).

  • Biola News

    New Political Science Department and Faculty Strengthens Major Opportunities for Students

    Political science professor Scott Waller leads new department

    Stephen Day — 

    This fall, Biola University announces an independent Political Science department with an emphasis on providing greater resources and...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Why God the Father and God the Son?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Hi Sir, I am very glad to meet you through online... I understood the essentiality of trinity, there is no doubt about why I should believe in triune God. But, I have been thinking what could be the reason for son and father relationship in God’s head ...

  • Biola News

    Biola To Induct Three To Athletics Hall of Fame

    Musa Dogonyaro, Ronn Johnson and Rianne Schorel comprise Biola's third class of Hall of Famers.

    Neil Morgan — 

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

  • The Good Book Blog

    Passing On Our Faith – One Generation to Another

    Dave Keehn — 

    A family had a priceless family heirloom – a vase – that was passed down one generation to the next generation. One day, the parents of the family who had possession of the vase, left the teenagers at home while they went out shopping for the day. When they returned home, their children met the parents at the door, with sad faces, reporting: “Mother, Father… you know that priceless heirloom our family passes down one generation to the next… while our generation just dropped it”

  • The Good Book Blog

    Theistic Ethics and Mind-Dependence

    William Lane Craig — 

    "... I have a question about morality that you'll hopefully be able to answer and clarify your position on. My knowledge of meta-ethics is pretty modest, but I'm actually leaning albeit tentatively towards morality being objective (see, there's at least one thing we agree on!). I'd argue that moral obligation can be objective without God (I won't do that here though), but I'd go even further and say that IF morality is founded in God it is NOT objective. If "objective" means "mind-independent" which might be a rough definition of objective, but let's accept it for now doesn't that make morality founded in God "divinely subjective" rather than objective? ..."

  • The Good Book Blog

    When The Group Comes First

    Joe Hellerman — 

    I recently read a fascinating book by Richard Nisbett, who compares and contrasts contemporary Asian and Western worldviews. It just so happens that the strong-group mentality of Nisbett’s Asian culture corresponds in some important ways to the mindset of people in the New Testament world.

  • Biola Magazine

    In Print: Summer 2014

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Astonished: Recapturing the Wonder, Awe, and Mystery of Life with God, by Mike Erre (M.A. ’04), David C. Cook, April 2014. Jesus should get bigger...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biolans Up Close: Summer 2014

    Brent Mason (’87), finance director for the city of Riverside, Calif.

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Much of Brent Mason’s day-to-day life is spent crunching numbers. As finance director for the city of Riverside, Calif., he’s responsible for...

  • Biola Magazine

    Alumni Files: Summer 2014

    Inbox: Concerns About Costs

    Rick Bee — 

    I hit a nerve with many of you in the last issue of Biola Magazine when I mentioned the topic of debt and the cost of tuition. Thank you for the...