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• Biola News

  Professor’s Debut Novel Chosen as National Book Award Finalist

  Carrie Arcos’ young adult book "Out of Reach" released this month

  Jenna Bartlo — October 31, 2012

  English professor Carrie Arcos admits that she was more in love with the idea of being a writer for many years before she actually became a...

• Biola News

  Student Vocalists Travel to Korea to Share Music

  The King’s Men share their musical talents with thousands in Seoul

  Bethany Wilson — October 26, 2012

  The King’s Men, an acapella music group from ɫ��ɫ��̳’s Conservatory of Music, recently completed a whirlwind tour of South Korea that...

• The Good Book Blog

  Necesitamos al Espíritu Santo

  Octavio Esqueda — October 24, 2012

  El Espíritu Santo es esencial para la vida y enseñanza cristiana. De hecho, no creo exagerar al afirmar que sin la ayuda y poder del Espíritu Santo todos nuestros esfuerzos tanto para agradar a Dios como para enseñar a otros a hacerlo carecen de sentido y, por lo tanto, los resultados son insignificantes. Desgraciadamente, en muchas ocasiones el Espíritu Santo es olvidado, minimizado o incluso relevado a solamente una teoría teológica que creemos porque se encuentra en la Biblia, pero que no tiene ninguna relevancia en nuestra vida diaria. De hecho, llegué a escuchar a un profesor de un seminario afirmar que muchos cristianos de forma práctica creen que la santa trinidad está compuesta por el Padre, el Hijo y las Santas Escrituras. De esta manera, la presencia del Espíritu Santo es totalmente olvidada.

• Business. Ministry. Life.

  To Walk in Their Shoes: the Non-Profit Marketing Project

  Les Harman III — October 24, 2012

  Every spring, I teach a course in Non-Profit Marketing (BUSN 332) to my upper-division marketing students. During this course, my students...

• Business. Ministry. Life.

  Pursuing Business as Ministry: Finding the Right Employer

  Nick Sherwin — October 24, 2012

  For anyone passionate about secular work being ministry, a thorough investigation of a prospective employer is critical. Why would anyone want to...

• Business. Ministry. Life.

  Make It Matter: the Purpose of A College Education

  David Bourgeois — October 24, 2012

  An open letter to high school seniors and their parents: Now is the time of year when millions of students and their parents are hard at work on...

• The Good Book Blog

  The "Why?" of Internships for Ministry Preparation

  Dave Keehn — October 23, 2012

  Mentoring may be a “buzz-word” in the business world, but the practice of developing another person for specific purposes of skill or leadership development has been around since the beginning of civilization. It is evident throughout Scripture – especially in the ministries of Jesus and Paul. However, the integration of mentoring for ministry preparation within academic settings has built in problems. SO WHY BOTHER? For many reasons...

• The Good Book Blog

  Pictures of Jesus

  Gary Manning Jr — October 19, 2012

  The latest news on historical Jesus research can now be found in… Popular Mechanics? I’m used to perusing Popular Mechanics to see flying cars, homemade submarines, and ads for power tools. But Popular Mechanics published a reconstructed picture of Jesus (quite a while ago, but I just noticed it!). I’ll show you the picture and explain it in just a bit. But first, I want you to see some of my favorite portraits of Jesus. My students have become accustomed to seeing these non-traditional pictures of Jesus decorating my powerpoint lecture notes. This picture of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (from the Via Latina catacomb, ca. 340-350) was painted by a Roman, so Jesus and the woman both have Roman hairstyles and clothing. No beard on Jesus!

• The Good Book Blog

  Every Question Paul Asks in Romans

  Kenneth Berding — October 18, 2012

  A few weeks ago I put up a post with the title: “Something About the Book of Romans that will Really Help You ‘Get’ It.” (Click HERE to read it.) I rounded out that article with a list of questions from Romans to help people see the importance of the ethnic issues going on in the background of the letter to the Romans. Some people expressed surprise that there were so many questions in the book of Romans—it’s not something that they had noticed before. Well, there are a whole lot more questions in Romans than the ones I listed. Questions are one of the ways Paul moves his argument forward. Do you want to see how many questions there are?

• The Good Book Blog

  "Children of God" (John 1:13)

  Gary Manning Jr — October 15, 2012

  This morning, I began teaching Greek sentence diagramming to my students in Introduction to Exegesis. Some students love diagramming, but probably more dread it, at least at first. I picked some sentences to diagram from John 1, mainly because the students had just translated this passage a few weeks ago. One sentence in particular, John 1:12-13, reveals that nerdy analytical approaches such as Greek diagramming can help understand passages of Scripture better. Here’s the diagram (with a translation below for non-Greek readers) ὅσοι δὲ ἔλαβον αὐτόν, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα θεοῦ γενέσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ,

• Biola News

  Biola President, Olympian and Alumna Amy Atkinson Run 5K to Fight Human Trafficking

  Alumni, parents and students ran to support Biola's Social Justice Ministry

  Jenna Bartlo — October 12, 2012

  More than 400 people ran in the “Run for Micah 6:8” 5K during Biola Weekend on Oct. 6 in support of Biola’s student Social Justice Ministry...

• Biola News

  Biola Remains One of the Safest Colleges

  Campus Safety released the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report

  Jessica Airey — October 12, 2012

  A report released this fall demonstrates that ɫ��ɫ��̳’s campus remains one of the safest districts in the city of La Mirada — which...

• Biola News

  Biola Weekend Recap

  The second annual Biola Weekend brought over 1,100 parents, alumni, family members and friends to campus for two days of events and activities that highlighted “The Best of Biola!”

  Hilary Larkins — October 10, 2012

  The second annual Biola Weekend brought over 1,100 parents, alumni, familymembers and friends to campus for two days of events and activities that...

• The Good Book Blog

  Enseñamos lo que somos

  Octavio Esqueda — October 01, 2012

  He tenido el privilegio de ser profesor por más de veinte años. A los diecinueve años empecé a enseñar español y otras materias en una secundaria publica en Guadalajara, México. Esta aventura que empezó como un simple trabajo se ha convertido en mi vocación y he tenido la oportunidad de enseñar en varios países, instituciones y niveles académicos que van de la secundaria hasta el doctorado. La tarea de un profesor es ardua y siempre hay muchas cosas que aprender. De hecho, actualmente enseño en un programa doctoral que se enfoca principalmente en la tarea educativa y en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en diferentes contextos cristianos.

• The Good Book Blog

  "Jesus' Wife" Papyrus: an Update

  Gary Manning Jr — September 28, 2012

  Last week, I posted my initial take on the so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife." My first point was that it was "too early to tell" whether the manuscript was genuine. In the last twenty years, forgers have produced some amazingly convincing forgeries, so scholars have become cautious about all archeological finds.

• Biola News

  Biola Outperforms Nationwide Average for Hispanic Graduation Rates

  Listed as one of 25 private universities closing the graduation rate gap

  Brenda Velasco — September 20, 2012

  According to reports released today by The Education Trust, college graduation rates nationwide are far too low, particularly among students of...

• The Good Book Blog

  Did Jesus Have a Wife? A New Gnostic Fragment

  Gary Manning Jr — September 19, 2012

  According to an article in the Washington Post, an ancient manuscript claiming that Jesus had a wife has just been discovered. I’ll tackle this new discovery with some Q&A. What is this new find? Karen King, the Gnostic scholar who published the manuscript, has titled it the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife (see the scholarly article here). It is a very small fragment, only 12 partial lines, of an ancient Gnostic book. The fragment, written in Coptic, dates from the fourth century, but it is a copy of an older book, perhaps written in the late second century. According to the fragment, Jesus refers to “my wife.”

• Biola News

  Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet Recap

  Biola Athletics celebrated its inaugural Hall of Fame Class with an induction ceremony.

  Hilary Larkins — September 17, 2012

  On Saturday, September 15, 2012,Biola Athletics celebrated its inaugural Hall of Fame Class with an induction ceremonyin the Talbot East Andrews...

• The Good Book Blog

  A Day in the City of David

  Kenneth Way — September 15, 2012

  Where is one place that you can go in Jerusalem to see possible remains of King David’s palace, Nehemiah’s wall, Hezekiah’s tunnel, the Pool of Siloam and royal tombs? That would be the City of David, which is the name given to the small spur of land that extends southward from the Temple Mount. I want to share with you five highlights from this small area.

• The Good Book Blog

  Jesús es nuestra esperanza

  Octavio Esqueda — September 13, 2012

  “El que espera, desespera” dice un refrán popular. Esperar algo no es satisfactorio para nadie y en ocasiones las salas de espera en oficinas y consultorios se convierten en salas de tortura para muchos que, como yo, son impacientes y perciben el tiempo de espera como un tiempo perdido. Esta creencia común puede percibir a la esperanza como algo negativo y algo no muy deseado.

• Biola News

  For the Third Straight Year, U.S. News Names Biola an ‘Up and Coming’ University

  Biola again ranked in top tier of national universities

  Jenna Bartlo — September 11, 2012

  For the third year in a row, U.S. News and World Report has identified ɫ��ɫ��̳ as one of the nation’s most promising and innovative...

• The Good Book Blog

  4/14 Window

  David Talley — September 06, 2012

  Many people are aware of the 10/40 window, but have you heard about the missional emphasis on the 4/14 window? Luis Bush and others are stirring the church to consider a stronger focus on this "window" in the days ahead.

• Biola News

  Summer Missions: Three Continents, Seven Countries, One Purpose

  Seven student-led missions teams serve seven countries

  Ethan Froelich and Sarah Enriquez — September 06, 2012

  Seven student mission teams traveled to seven different countries over the course of three months. Going to places as remote as Ulaangom in...

• The Good Book Blog

  Transformed in Christ: Christology and the Christian Life in John Chrysostom

  Ashish Naidu — September 02, 2012

  I am delighted to announce the recent publication of my monograph titled, Transformed in Christ: Christology and the Christian Life in John Chrysostom, in the Princeton Theological Monograph Series, by Pickwick Publications (Imprint of Wipf and Stock).

• The Good Book Blog

  Something About the Book of Romans that will Help You Really "Get" It

  Kenneth Berding — August 29, 2012

  Here’s something that many people I talk to about Paul’s Letter to the Romans don’t seem yet to have grasped. The earliest house churches in Rome would have been primarily Jewish and would have culturally felt Jewish, but in A.D. 49 the Roman Emperor Claudius kicked the Jews out of Rome. Jewish Christians, of course, would have been expelled along with the rest of the Jews. During the five years between Claudius’s edict (A.D. 49) and his death (A.D. 54) when the edict lapsed and Jews started to return, the composition and self-understanding of the house churches in Rome would have shifted considerably. Paul’s letter to the Romans would have arrived in Rome somewhere around A.D. 57, during the period when Jews were still trickling back into Rome. If you can fix in your mind that the expulsion of Jews from Rome had a tremendous impact on the churches in that city, you will understand the message of Romans oh-so-much better!