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  • 2013 Fall

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love, by Fred Sanders (associate professor of theology), Crossway, August 2013. It is hard to...

  • 2013 Fall

    Jason Newell — 

    One of the best parts of my job is getting to learn about your job. Really. It’s inspiring to see the many ways that God is using Biola graduates...

  • 2013 Fall

    Barry Corey — 

    This past academic year I was on a flight from Chicago to New York, seated in 29D. As I boarded the plane, I noticed a handful of Orthodox Jewish...

  • 2013 Fall

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola University has again been named one of America’s best colleges, earning high marks this fall on several annual college-ranking lists. In...

  • 2013 Fall

    A Spate of the Arts

    Biola Launches Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    On Sept. 20, Biola celebrated the official launch of its new Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts (CCCA), with the unveiling of the brand...

  • 2013 Fall

    Talbot Prayer Chapel Impresses Design Community

    Awards, acclaim pour in for Biola's unique sacred space

    Brett McCracken — 

    Hidden away in the lower level of the newest building on Biola’s campus, Talbot East, is a room you have to know you are looking for. But once you...

  • 2013 Fall

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    For the second year in a row, Biola University’s supporters made history by setting records for total giving in a single fiscal year. In the 2012–...

  • 2013 Fall

    The Forgotten Founder

    Biola’s first dean sold millions of books, evangelized around the world and was named “the father of Zionism” by a Supreme Court justice. Today, he's nearly vanished from school history. Here's why William E. Blackstone should be remembered.

    Paul Rood — 

    In 1936, my grandfather Paul W. Rood, who was Biola’s president in the midst of a deep national depression, chose to celebrate Biola’s heritage...

  • 2013 Fall

    Good Advice

    Twenty-one alumni and professors offer practical wisdom from their areas of expertise

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    How to Tell a Great Story I write books for a living — sometimes my own, sometimes in collaboration with high-profile public figures. The genre I...

  • 2013 Fall

    Unknown — 

    It’s one of the most life-altering war wounds that a service member can experience, even though it doesn’t leave a scratch on the body:...

  • 2013 Fall

    Sean McDowell — 

    “Even though they were crucified, stoned, stabbed, dragged, skinned and burned, every last apostle of Jesus proclaimed his resurrection until his...

  • 2013 Fall

    Janelle Aijian — 

    There is a live question among Christians regarding the place of doubt in the life of faith. Karl Barth identifies two forms of Christian doubt:...

  • 2013 Summer

    Get to Know: Summer 2013

    Allen Yeh, cultural connoisseur and world-traveling missiologist

    Amber Amaya — 

    There is one thing Allen Yeh, associate professor of intercultural studies and missiology, won’t eat — bugs. He used to stay away from brains too,...

  • 2013 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    It’s been 34 years since Sherrill (Hennings, ’71) Bragg first set foot on Peruvian soil. Four children and 14 grandchildren later, Sherrill is...

  • 2013 Summer

    Alumni Files: Summer 2013

    State of the Alumni Union

    Rick Bee — 

    As many of you who completed last year’s alumni survey may recall, the alumni office has gone through an extensive review of programs and services....

  • 2013 Summer

    Biolans Up Close: Summer 2013

    Julie Sagatelian ('81), financial adviser and mother of triplets

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Since graduating from Biola in 1981 with a degree in intercultural studies and business, Julie Sagatelian has become a respected financial planner...

  • 2013 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    What Every Pastor Should Know: 101 Indispensable Rules of Thumb for Leading Your Church, coauthored by Gary L. McIntosh (professor of Christian...

  • 2013 Summer

    Saint Lewis

    Editor's Note

    Jason Newell — 

    C.S. Lewis died 50 years ago this November, and if this is the first time you’ve been made aware of that fact, it probably won’t be the last. The...

  • 2013 Summer

    Barry Corey — 

    If you asked me what course had a significant impact on my undergraduate education, I would tell you about the one taught by Professor Twila...

  • 2013 Summer

    Biola Makes National 'Green' List

    Princeton Review includes Biola on list of most environmentally friendly colleges

    Brett McCracken — 

    Sprawling lawns, eternally leafy trees and hordes of wide-eyed freshman are not the only things “green” on campus these days. Increasing efforts...

  • 2013 Summer

    School of Education Goes Global

    Faculty offer resources and training to schools in Burundi, Cambodia and Lebanon

    Brett McCracken — 

    At evangelical institutions like Biola, there’s a lot of passion to share the gospel and make disciples across the globe. But what if the people we...

  • 2013 Summer

    A $1.5 Million Question

    Biola professor leads new research into how to measure humility

    Jason Newell — 

    Moses, according to the biblical book of Numbers, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth. But for the rest of us, how can...

  • 2013 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    From the left, are Janine Nichols, Nancy Fernandez, Virginia Moats and La Verne Tolbert Biola honored four women with Ruby Awards during a special...

  • 2013 Summer

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    May marked the close of the first full academic year for the Biola University Center for Christian Thought, which spent two semesters exploring the...

  • 2013 Summer

    Spring Sports Roundup

    Biola women win GSAC championship

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Track and Field The women’s track and field team won its first-ever championship in April at the Golden State Athletic Conference Outdoor Track...