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• Biola Magazine

  In Memory of Missy

  Steve and Wanda Belton

  Stephanie Kim — June 14, 2015

  Supporting the Biola Conservatory of Music strikes a very special chord with Steve and Wanda Belton. Their daughter Missy, an accomplished oboist,...

• Biola Magazine

  Parents and Apologists

  John and Claudia Kalmikov

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  John and Claudia Kalmikov are a rarity for Biola parents: both are also Biola students. The donors and current campaign cabinet members are...

• Biola Magazine

  Sacrificing for Students

  Matthew Weathers (’93)

  Stephanie Kim — June 14, 2015

  Matthew Weathers (’93) wears many hats at Biola; he’s a donor, a popular professor, a staff member and an alumnus. Weathers has been tied to Biola...

• Biola Magazine

  Recruiting Students and Giving Back

  Miles Bocianski (’13) and Daniel Parham (’13)

  Brett McCracken, Kristina Nishi — June 14, 2015

  Having both been Biola students and now admissions counselors, Miles Bocianski (’13) and Daniel Parham (’13) know well the challenges of...

• Biola Magazine

  A Product of Faithfulness

  Meleca Consultado (’09)

  Stephanie Kim — June 14, 2015

  Even though she is still paying off her own student loans, resident director Meleca Consultado (’09) donates to the Biola scholarship fund. Why?...

• Biola Magazine

  A Warm Welcome

  Loy Chiu

  Jason Newell, Kristina Nishi — June 14, 2015

  As a teenager in the late 1940s, Loy Chiu figured he didn’t have the grades or the money to attend college. But he applied to Biola anyway, just...

• Biola Magazine

  Historic $12 Million Gift Supports New Science Building

  Alton Lim seeks to ‘return back to God what is originally his’ with largest cash gift in Biola’s history

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  For much of his adulthood, Alton Lim sensed that something — or someone — was guiding his life. As a Chinese immigrant who started with little,...

• Biola Magazine

  Leading the Way

  Campaign cabinet helps to spearhead fundraising efforts

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  How does a university like Biola even begin to raise $180 million? In addition to plenty of prayer and planning, it takes a whole lot of help from...

• Biola Magazine

  A Soul, A Voice and A Vision

  Reflections on the theme of ɫ��ɫ��̳’s largest ever fundraising campaign:
 “A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage”

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  Our world isn’t lacking in voices. Every day we are bombarded by a chorus of opinions, tweets, texts, ads, blogs and more. But where are the voices...

• Biola Magazine

  A Historic Night

  Conviction and Courage Gala launches campaign, raises nearly $4 million in one evening

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  With the message “Jesus Saves” glowing brightly in the skyline above, hundreds of Biola friends and supporters gathered on May 9 for one of the...

• Biola Magazine

  Making History by Shaping the Future

  How a $180 million campaign will transform ɫ��ɫ��̳ and its students

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  This is a historic moment for ɫ��ɫ��̳. It is, to hear university leaders tell it, a point in time that future generations of Biolans will...

• Biola Magazine

  A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage

  President Barry H. Corey offers his perspective on the launch of The Campaign for ɫ��ɫ��̳

  Barry Corey — June 14, 2015

  B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! The five-lettered chant — with a force on the O — is a common student refrain in our Chase Gymnasium as they...

• The Good Book Blog

  Is “Fine-Tuning” Question-Begging?

  William Lane Craig — June 12, 2015

  Dear William Lane Craig, I am a philosophically unsympathetic fan of yours. I very much admire your philosophical learning, your rhetorical skills and your ingenuity in defense of your faith; at the same time, I reject both your faith itself and the apologetic project at the center of your work in philosophy. I'm sure this is a combination you're already familiar with. What interests me at the moment is something in your recent podcast on Tim Maudlin and the fine tuning argument, and I hope you don't mind considering these short comments ...

• Biola News

  Biola Finishes 24th in Directors' Cup

  Biola earns a 7th-straight top-30 national finish.

  Neil Morgan — June 12, 2015

  Directors' Cup Release| Complete Rankings| GSAC All-Sports Award Release Four-hundred and twenty-nine total points is enough to get Biola its...

• The Good Book Blog

  Justin Martyr: The First Great Apologist of the Christian Church

  Doug Geivett — June 10, 2015

  Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165 AD) is considered by many to be the first great apologist of the Christian church. The apostle Paul is surely a better candidate for that distinction. But Paul was an inspired author of Scripture. This is not true of any of the other great Christian apologists. And Justin apparently was the first of these. Certainly, he is the first whose writings have survived and are available in English translation ...

• Biola News

  Christine Tixier Named Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year

  Tixier earns highest national academic honor.

  Neil Morgan — June 08, 2015

  AUSTIN, Texas --- Christine Tixier set another landmark during her highly-decorated career as a student-athlete at Biola when she was selected the...

• Biola News

  Sean Henning Named New Track & Field/Cross Country Coach

  Biola names Sean Henning, former CBU Assistant, as new T&F/XC Head Coach.

  Neil Morgan — June 08, 2015

  A nationwide search for ɫ��ɫ��̳’s new Track & Field and Cross Country head coach came to a conclusion when Sean Henning accepted the...

• The Good Book Blog

  Why Can’t God Be Just the Greatest Being?

  William Lane Craig — June 05, 2015

  Hello Dr. Craig. My question was awakened after having been listening to your class on ''The Ontological Argument''. My question to you is: Does a maximally great being, necessarily have be what we humans are able to imagine as the greatest being? Can it not just be that the being (God) who is in reality the greatest of all beings (since no greater being exists in reality), is the greatest conceivable being. Why do our imagining of a greater being need to devaluate the greatness of the already greatest being. Even if we could imagine a greater being, can it not just be that those ''greater/higher attributes'' are unnecessary and therefore not really greater attributes?

• The Good Book Blog

  The Emotions of Jesus, Part 2: Outrage

  Thaddeus Williams — June 03, 2015

  To see and experience something of Jesus’ emotions, let us join eighty to a hundred thousand religious pilgrims on their trek to the sacred city to worship at the Jewish Temple. It is Passover week. In order to participate in the traditional Temple offerings, people need doves or pigeons. Since worshippers need these birds, they were sold at the Temple at a premium price. You could get a more economical bird outside the Temple courts or lug one from home through the hot desert. However, every bird used in Temple rituals had to pass the rigid purity standards of the Temple’s in-house animal inspectors. Only inflated Temple-sold birds had the guaranteed certification of the scrupulous inspectors. In this way, the house of prayer had become a classic case of what economists call a “captive market.

• Biola News

  Fifteenth in Thailand's Tennis League Finishes First Year on ɫ��ɫ��̳'s Tennis Team

  Freshman Philip Westwood reflects on what it means to be a Biola athlete

  Kayla Mele — June 02, 2015

  Philip Westwood, ɫ��ɫ��̳ freshman and men’s tennis team member, ranked 15 out of 1,000 athletes for tennis in Bangkok, Thailand....

• The Good Book Blog

  Los Hombres y Padres Cristianos Necesitan Más Ánimo

  Octavio Esqueda — June 01, 2015

  Siempre me ha sorprendido el contraste entre las celebraciones del día de las madres y las del día del padre. Generalmente el día de las madres es una gran festividad y un motivo de alegría generalizado en el cual la mayoría reconoce la labor tan ardua y abnegada de las madres. Celebrar a la mamá es una obligación social que se asume con entusiasmo porque todos tienen motivos de sobra para hacerlo. Reconocer a los padres, sin embargo, no tiene el mismo peso social y la efusividad disminuye considerablemente. Ambos padres son importantes, pero pareciera que el énfasis y el reconocimiento son diferentes.

• The Good Book Blog

  The Reliability of the Gospels

  William Lane Craig — May 29, 2015

  Dear Dr. Craig, First off, I want to thank you for all that you have done for me through your ministry and hope that your reach continues to spread. I grew up in a conservative Christian home and for the most part accepted everything that I had been taught. Then during my junior year of high school I read some Richard Dawkins, and the likes, and quickly lost my faith. About six or so months later I discovered your ministry and my life was changed! Your arguments convinced me and in no time I had gone back to my faith. I read On Guard and Reasonable Faith among other Christian authors as well. I felt that my faith was strong and I even considered changing my major to Philosophy for a short time. But now, I am saddened to say that I am slowly losing my faith in the Christian God ...

• Biola News

  Reba DePriest Named NAIA All-American

  GSAC Pitcher of the Year earns second national honor.

  Neil Morgan — May 29, 2015

  NAIA RELEASE LA MIRADA, Calif. --- After another record-breaking season, Reba DePriest earned her second National Association of Intercollegiate...

• The Good Book Blog

  The Emotions of Jesus, Part 1: The Age of Feeling

  Thaddeus Williams — May 28, 2015

  If Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and a mix of our ancestors from virtually any age of human history were crammed into a time machine and hurled into the twenty-first century, there is something normal to us that they would find totally bewildering. I am not referring to air and space travel, or the worldwide renown achieved by a cartoon mouse, or even technologies that put all human knowledge at our fingertips that we use to watch endless cat bloopers, bizarre as all of that would seem. I am referring instead to the sacred, unquestioned authority granted to feelings in our day. Western culture has been through a so-called ‘Age of Faith’ and an ‘Age of Reason.’ We live in what Princeton’s Robert George calls “the Age of Feeling.”[1] Canadian Philosopher, Charles Taylor, prefers the moniker, “The Age of Authenticity,” to describe how staying true to your feelings, whatever they may be, has become the highest virtue of our day (unlike historic virtues in which certain feelings could and should be chastened).

• The Good Book Blog

  A Divine Appointment

  Joe Hellerman — May 27, 2015

  I wrote a book titled When The Church Was A Family. Considering its rather narrow focus, it has sold pretty well. I am particularly delighted that the book has become required reading in one of our Talbot Spiritual Formation courses. One person who has read When The Church Was A Family is Mark DeNeui. Mark is a New Testament scholar who has been training Christian leaders in Europe for over twenty years. He and his wife Lisa have been on furlough from the mission field and will shortly return to France. I was Mark’s youth pastor back in the late 1970s, I officiated at their wedding a decade or so later, and my wife and I have remained close to the DeNeuis all these years ...