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  • Think Biblically

    Faith at the World Series

    with Dodgers chaplain Brandon Cash

    Brandon Cash, Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — 

    Talbot School of Theology professor Brandon Cash has served as chaplain for the Los Angeles Dodgers for the past seven years. Listen in as Scott...

  • Student Life Blog

    Love on the Wrong Side

    a blog response to The Biola Hour on Winsome Persuasion

    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

    Cross Gender Friendships

    a guest post by Grant Morgan

    Sarah Schwartz — 

    Alumni Grant Morgan examines the time old question,"Can men and women be friends?"

  • The Good Book Blog

    Was Jesus An Apologist?

    Sean McDowell — 

    A few years ago, I had a discussion with an influential theologian who claimed that Jesus was not an apologist. He pointed out that, except for 1 Peter 3:15, the New Testament appearances of apologia (“defense”) all come from the writing or ministry of Paul. Does this mean Jesus was not an apologist? Was Jesus more interested in proclaiming and illustrating the faith than defending it? ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    How to Cure Slow Thinking

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... I can really sympathize with your plight, Daniel! I’m sure that everyone one of us has come away from a conversation with an unbeliever feeling defeated and discouraged and thinking, “Why didn’t I say this?” We admire people who have a mind like a steel trap, ready to spring instantly. I well remember as a young philosopher the awe I felt of George Mavrodes, a professor at the University of Michigan, who, sitting in some session at a philosophy conference and hearing a paper read for the first time, would ask the most penetrating questions from the floor. How I wished to have a mind like his! Well, there is hope. Such a mind is the product of training and development. It need not come naturally, nor is God apt to heal your slow thinking with prayer apart from diligent study and exercise. But my experience has been that with practice one can improve one’s ability to think acutely and quickly ...

  • Biola News

    Biola Alumna Creates System to Process Key Part of Sexual Assault Kits in Minutes

    Sarah Lum (’14) strives to increase accuracy and decrease processing time in identifying sexual assault predators through a new system

    Alisa Ohara — 

    Tens of thousands of rape kits remain untested across the nation, according to a USA Today investigative nationwide count. Alumna Sarah Lum (’14)...

  • Think Biblically

    5 Decades of Faithful Apologetics

    with Josh McDowell

    Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — 

    Josh McDowell has long been one of the leading spokespersons and apologists for Christianity, having spoken to hundreds of thousands of students...

  • The Good Book Blog

    People: the Cause of Cyclical Poverty or the Source of Prosperity?

    Dave Keehn — 

    A brief look back over the history over the world or turning on the nightly news will reveal the pain of people caused by the actions of others. It can be simply stated: People have caused the impoverished lifestyle experienced by so many in the world through harmful acts. Some cyclical poverty is the result of well-meaning assistance that has perpetuated dependency, unintentionally making things worse. Other people are trapped in communities of poverty through corrupt policies and a lack of rule of law. Worse, history is full of the evil of some to oppress, steal from and enslave people resulting in deadly poverty ...

  • GRIT

    How to Maintain Long Distance Friendships

    an original blog

    Celeste Scott — 

    Celeste Scott & Shelby Baumgartner discuss the difficulties and rewards of long distance friendships.

  • The Good Book Blog

    5 Earth-Shattering Events Linked to the Bible

    Sean McDowell — 

    In the recent update to my father’s classic book Evidence that Demands a Verdict, we begin with a chapter on the uniqueness of the Bible. Unquestionably, in comparison to every book ever written, the Bible stands out as unique in a number of areas including authorship, literary genres, translation, geographical production, circulation, survival, and impact. The Bible truly stands in a category of its own ...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    What’s Driving Changes in Healthcare

    Insights from Crowell School of Business

    Jeff McHugh — 

    Amazon and Albertsons with their recent acquisitions

  • The Good Book Blog

    Jesus’ God

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... A former Muslim (now Christian) friend once remarked to me, “Muslim evangelism is a crash course in Christian doctrine.” Your question, Abdullah, so well illustrates that remark. You have opened the door to discussion of some very profound doctrines about God and Christ. To begin with, you are quite right in inferring that if any human being regards someone as God, he must also regard that person as his Creator, since God is the Creator of all that exists apart from Himself. Since Christians regard Jesus as God, they also explicitly acknowledge him as the Creator (see Gospel of John 1.1-3; Colossians 1.15-17; Hebrews 1.1-3) ...

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Alumni Spotlight Colby Gilmore

    Financial Planner

    Colby Gilmore — 

    Colby Gilmore is a Financial Planner for the Private Wealth division of Ronald Blue Trust.

  • Business. Ministry. Life.

    Alumni Spotlight: Jordan (Perkins) Terranova

    Co-Founder, Illuminate International; 2017 Alumna, Crowell School of Business

    Jordan Terranova — 

    Our mission is to unite kids around the world through the power of story and education.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Post-Postmodernism: Engaging the New Spirit of the Age with Clarity, Conviction, and Compassion

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    Fifteen years ago in Paris, I had a conversation with a young existentialist who said something as unflattering as it was memorable: “Whatever the world does the church does ten years later and worse.” My new friend was talking about Christian music, describing a decade lag factor, a slowness to recognize and adapt to cultural changes that, in his estimation, rendered the church musically irrelevant ...

  • GRIT

    International Day of the Girl

    a day of celebration & awareness

    Sarah Schwartz — 

    GRIT discusses the International Day of the Girl.

  • The Good Book Blog

    What is the Most Powerful Evidence for the Christian Faith?

    Sean McDowell — 

    For the past three years I have been helping my father update his classic book Evidence that Demands a Verdict. There is no doubt that the evidence for Christianity has grown substantially since the book first released in 1972 ...

  • Student Life Blog

    A Herd of Scapegoats

    a blog response to The Biola Hour on technology

    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...

  • Student Life Blog

    What is Business as Ministry?

    Christina Gramenz — 

    Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. - 1 Corinthians 15:58

  • The Good Book Blog

    Brute Facts and the Argument from Contingent Beings

    Weekly Q & A with Dr. William Lane Craig

    William Lane Craig — 

    ... Your question, Austin, is about (1), which I call “a modest version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason” which “circumvents the typical objections to strong versions of that principle.” Leibniz’s own formulation of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in his treatise The Monadology was very strong: "no fact can be real or existent, no statement true, unless there be a sufficient reason why it is so and not otherwise." Notice that for Leibniz every fact, every true statement, must have an explanation. That entails that there are no brute facts, that is, facts without explanation. By contrast, as I explain in Reasonable Faith, my more modest formulation of the Principle “merely requires any existing thing to have an explanation of its existence. This premiss is compatible with there being brute facts about the world” (p. 107). My version of the Principle denies that there are beings which exist without any explanation. That’s all I need for the argument to go through ...

  • Student Life Blog

    Six Tips to Help You Reach Your Academic Goals

    Eyvette Min — 

    It’s hard to believe that we’re already starting the sixth week of this semester! Here are a few tips to ensure that you’re staying on the path towards reaching your academic goals.

  • Biola News

    Apologetics Professor Authors New Book on Why God Allows Evil

    Clay Jones recently released the book “Why Does God Allow Evil?: Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions”

    Jenna Loumagne — 

    Amidst recent national disasters including hurricanes and earthquakes across the nation and internationally, many may be asking the question of...

  • Student Life Blog

    Three Things I learned About Money as an Undergrad

    Shane Enete — 

    As a high schooler, I was always drawn to the idea of saving. It gripped me. I loved the idea of small deposits growing to piles of money given...

  • The Good Book Blog

    A Religion of Professors?

    Mark Saucy — 

    Imagine my double-take when I was confronted with this assessment of our comparative religions by an Orthodox believer several years ago back in Ukraine: “Mark, you Protestants follow a religion of professors, whereas we Orthodox … the religion of monks" ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Apologetics Is Not Saying You’re Sorry

    Sean McDowell — 

    As a professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University, I (Sean) help prepare students to answer tough questions raised against the Christian faith. One day someone from outside the Biola academic community called our university to ask why we offer classes on apologizing for the faith. She thought apologetics meant teaching students to say they were sorry for their beliefs! While her question was well intentioned, she didn’t grasp the nature of apologetics and its role in the Christian life. Christians certainly should apologize for their faith, but not in the way she had in mind ...