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  • The Good Book Blog

    How Do We Help the Next Generation Navigate Culture?

    Sean McDowell — 

    As a parent of three kids, I am frequently trying to help them best navigate cultural voices vying for their hearts and minds. This is why I am thrilled about the new book, A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World, by Brett Kunkle and John Stonestreet. They are both my good friends and ministry partners. But most importantly, they have written an excellent book. If you work with students in any capacity—parent, youth worker, teacher, mentor—this is a book you need to get. Read it, study it, and pass it on to other youth influencers. Here's a quick interview to give you a taste of how to help students best navigate culture ...

  • Biola News

    Biolans Provide Insight on How Universities Can Address Racial Matters

    Glen Kinoshita and Lisa Ishihara contribute their unique perspective towards rectifying racial tensions in new publication

    Kili Wall  — 

    Two Biola University staff members — Glen Kinoshita, director of imago dei initiatives, and Lisa Ishihara, director of chapel programs — joined...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Te Creo / I Believe You

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    ​Cada año la importante revista Time selecciona a la persona que ha tenido más influencia en el mundo durante el año. La persona del año 2017 ha sido acertadamente y sin lugar a dudas las mujeres que rompieron el silencio y cuyas voces empezaron el movimiento #MeToo (yo también). Estas valientes personas han hecho públicas sus desgarradoras historias de abuso y acoso sexual las cuales abarcan todos los segmentos de la sociedad y lamentablemente también de las iglesias.

  • Biola News

    Congratulations, Biola University Class of 2017!

    President of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), Shirley V. Hoogstra, delivered the fall 2017 commencement address

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    Approximately 450 students graduated from Biola University today — more than 170 graduate students and more than 270 undergraduate students....

  • The Good Book Blog

    Inspiration and the Occasional NT Epistles

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig. Dr. Craig, First I would like to thank you for your tireless efforts to propel Christianity toward intellectual relevance for so many of the lost. I have always found it so helpful and encouraging.

  • Think Biblically

    Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel

    with Russell Moore

    Scott Rae — 

    In this stimulating conversation with Dr. Russell Moore, Talbot Professor Dr. Scott Rae explores how to navigate the difficult terrain of...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Same Old Sam, Part 1

    John McKinley — 

    Imagine in the year 2047 that anti-aging therapies have developed so far that wealthy people not only cease aging, but some have begun to reverse. A few have even started to celebrate reverse birthdays in accordance with their rehabilitated age. Once sixty-seven, Sam now marks his age at forty-two. With the turn around he has re-entered life with friends of his newfound youth ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Absurdity of Moral Relativism: A Student’s Perspective

    Sean McDowell — 

    When I was a full-time high school teacher, one of my favorite assignments was to have my students develop a creative project to illustrate what would follow if moral relativism were true. Students wrote stories, composed songs, made short films, and more. My all-time favorite was a short poem written by a high school senior. She captures the moral absurdity that would follow if morality were truly relative to the individual ...

  • GRIT

    Sarah Schwartz's Last Word

    Sarah Schwartz — 

    Sarah Schwartz shares her last word before graduation.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Does God Have a Specific Marriage Partner for you?

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig. Hi Dr. Craig, I'd like to probe you more on your views of divine providence and marriage in particular. I believe you've said that God has a specific marriage partner intended for each person (unless perhaps that person is somehow called to celibacy) ...

  • Think Biblically

    Race and the Church – Part 2

    with Chris Brooks

    Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — 

    In part two of our conversation on race and the church, Sean McDowell and Scott Rae talk with Pastor Chris Brooks about the Black Lives Matter...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Hunger for Sacred Community, Part 3: The Deepest Longings of Our Souls

    Joanne Jung — 

    We are made in the image of God, an image that is tarnished yet has survived the fall. Who we are is intrinsically connected to who God is. Our spiritual depth, our being able to know ourselves, is linked to knowing God and who He is. This is where God’s word comes into the equation, because the Bible is one of the primary ways God discloses himself—what He’s done, what He’s doing, and what He promises to do. Spiritual depth is far more than how much you know the Scriptures or even how well you know it. It is knowing the Word of God and the God of the Word, the book and its author. We come away with a better, more thought-filled understanding of what He is like, what He says, what He expects of those who bear His image, and why, and how He empowers those who follow His son Jesus ...

  • Student Life Blog

    The Third G

    a blog response to The Biola Hour on Calling in the Marketplace

    Samantha Lyons — 

    As a way to continue the conversations in The Biola Hour, we've invited Sam Gassaway to blog her thoughts after each episode. This is a response...

  • GRIT

    Dressember Interview

    an interview with Alissa Shepardson

    Jasmyne Bell — 

    With human trafficking being such an issue in the United States and around the world, it is important that we don't ignore it and find ways to...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Is the Museum of the Bible Worth Visiting? Yes!

    Sean McDowell — 

    This past Tuesday I took my 13-year old son to visit the newly-opened Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. If I had to pick one word to describe it, the word would be impressive. Sure, I am an apologetics professor at Talbot School of Theology and am naturally interested in the history and cultural impact of the Bible. But I went with high expectations, and the Museum exceeded them ...

  • Biola News

    Soccer Wins NCCAA Title

    Eagles End Season With Blue Banner

    Brandon Taylor — 

    KISSIMMEE, Fla.---On Saturday, the Eagles put an emphatic final stamp on their season, scoring four goals and recording an eighth-consecutive...

  • Biola News

    Volleyball Wins NCCAA National Title

    Biola Volleyball finished the 2017 season with NCCAA Championship

    Neil Morgan — 

    KISSIMMEE, Florida--- A nice new blue banner will make its way back to La Mirada as Biola Volleyball won the 2017 National Christian College...

  • Student Life Blog

    Leadership Redefined

    Lisa Igram — 

    I settled into my seat, surrounded by colleagues, wondering what we’d hear, as Shirley Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges...

  • Student Life Blog

    With Family for the Holidays? A Survival Guide

    Todd Pickett — 

    Being “home for the holidays” has a nice ring to it, but for many college students emerging into adulthood, these returns to or extra time in our...

  • Student Life Blog

    The Trouble Tree: Developing Gratitude

    Louie Chong — 

    During the holidays, families, co-workers, ministers and friends often talk about being thankful. In many communities people are being more charitable and willing to serve their brothers, sisters and even strangers.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Finding a Confident Christian Faith

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    This is the weekly Q & A blog post by our Research Professor in Philosophy, Dr. William Lane Craig. You make a distinction, which I accept, between “knowing” and “showing” that something is true. But the thing is that I don’t know that the Resurrection is true, therefore, assuming it is, I need to be shown this. The problem is that, from the standpoint of the skeptical but open-minded seeker, as I consider myself to be, when looked at dispassionately the historical evidence is, while perhaps sufficient for corroboration of what one already believes, for the rest of us fragmentary and unconvincing ...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    ​Emotional Intelligence in a Knowledge Economy

    Jake Aguas — 

    “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” – Theodore Roosevelt

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Faculty Spotlight: Phil Woodward

    Associate Professor of Accounting

    Philip Woodward — 

    What do you enjoy most about teaching?

  • Think Biblically

    Race and the Church – Part 1

    with Chris Brooks

    Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — 

    Issues around race continue to be front-page news both in the culture at large and in the church. In this episode and the one that follows, Scott...

  • The Good Book Blog

    What Does the Old Testament Say about Loans and Interest? Part 2

    Klaus Issler — 

    For most of the history of the church, church leaders understood that the Old Testament taught a complete ban on any interest on loans. As noted in Part 1, the subject of this study is the matter of loans to fellow Israelites who had the potential for paying the loan back, not the topic of charity to the poor. Three important passages in the Pentateuch or Torah guide the main teaching on loans and interest in the Old Testament ...