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  • Biola News

    Biola Baseball Signs on Five-year-old as Youngest Player

    Baseball team comes together to support local boy suffering from mitochondrial disease

    Joclyn Kirton — 

    History was made on April 18, 2015 when the Biola University baseball team announced the signing of its youngest player, five-year-old Colton...

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Emotions of Jesus, Part 4: Joy

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    As we learn emotions from Jesus, not only does our blood start to boil (see Part 2) and our stomachs turn (see Part 3), he also shows our hearts how to beat with real joy. There is a stereotype floating around which says that Jesus and the faith he represents are about cold-hearted duty, doing the right thing at the expense of our happiness. There are enough grim-faced moralistic systems out that brandish the name of “Christianity” to keep the stereotype alive. But they have more in common with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant than with the kingdom of Jesus. The day after he stormed the Temple, Jesus returns to the same Temple courts to announce that his kingdom is like a big party, and everyone is invited; not a boarding school, not a boot camp, not a prison chain gang, but a party.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Crossing the Heath with William Paley (1743-1805)

    Doug Geivett — 

    On May 25, 1805 the Christian church lost one of its ablest and most-remembered defenders. William Paley—Anglican minister, professor, and author—is permanently associated with the analogy of a watchmaker and the God of personal theism. He wrote that “the contrivances of nature . . . are not less evidently mechanical, not less evidently contrivances, not less accommodated to their end or suited to their office, than are the most perfect productions of human ingenuity” (Natural Theology, 1802). Paley mined the riches of biology for samples of such contrivance. In his day, the state of scientific knowledge in the field of biology permitted comparatively easy inference to the appearance of teleology in the natural world. Critics today forget this. The “demise” of Paley’s design argument for the existence of God is credited especially to a development that was to happen some 60 years later—the emergence of the new theory of evolution, beginning with the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) ...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Work and Worship

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dr. Craig, I wanted to ask you a question as someone who is simply curious about Christianity. Can you explain what I consider to be the two "W"s of life under your God. These are work and worship ...

  • Biola News

    Dr. Bethany Miller Named Associate Athletic Director

    Head Women's Basketball coach becomes full-time athletic administrator.

    Neil Morgan — 

    Biola Head Women’s Basketball Coach Dr. Bethany Miller will transition roles within the athletic department this summer, necessitating her...

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Emotions of Jesus, Part 3: Compassion

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    If we peer underneath Jesus’ table-flipping rage at the Temple (explored in Part 2), we find a still deeper emotion to reflect. Matthew’s account tells us that immediately after protesting the poor-oppressing, God-mocking Temple system, “the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them" (Matthew 21:14). What a beautiful moment. In it we see that Jesus was outraged not in spite of His care for people but precisely because of it. The very people marginalized and trampled under the religious power structure are brought into the spotlight and elevated by Jesus. (He has a way of doing that.) He didn’t take anything from them or treat them like chumps in a captive market. He gave them vision and sound bodies. He treated them like the intrinsically valuable human beings they each were—and all for free.

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola Changes Lives

    An investment in Biola can make a lifelong impact — just ask these students, alumni and supporters

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    “Biola University truly is unique. There is no other school that offers what it offers in the area of philosophy, apologetics, so many other...

  • Biola Magazine

    The Shovels in my Office and the Excitement in my Heart

    Rick Bee — 

    Are you as excited as I am? I look through the amazing stories in this issue of Biola Magazine and I am overwhelmed by God’s provision and...

  • Biola Magazine

    Called to Stewardship

    The biblical principles guiding Biola’s campaign

    Adam Morris — 

    God, Giving and Asking at Biola University. That’s the title of a booklet we’ve been sharing with alumni, parents and friends who are considering...

  • Biola Magazine

    How to Help

    Six ways to get involved in The Campaign for Biola University

    Jason Newell — 

    Biola University was built on the prayers, generosity and support of people like you, who saw the vision of a school endeavoring to carry out a...

  • Biola Magazine

    Biola for the World

    Taking Biola’s biblically centered resources to the ends of the earth

    Brett McCracken — 

    For as long as Biola has existed, it has been an institution with an outward focus, looking for ways to bless people around the world with...

  • Biola Magazine

    Campaign Priority 4: Extend Biola’s Global Reach

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Never before have more opportunities been available for Biola to realize its vision of being a university of global impact. Technological advances...

  • Biola Magazine

    Front and Center

    A guide to Biola’s three academic centers

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    As part of the university’s goal to attract and develop outstanding Christian scholars and to have a more pronounced impact in the broader world...

  • Biola Magazine

    Giving Voice to the Wisdom of Jesus

    Three years in, Biola’s Center for Christian Thought is seeking to contribute to a renaissance of the evangelical mind

    Evan Rosa — 

    Ideas are powerful. Perhaps they’re the most powerful thing in the world. But ideas also have a weakness: They need a voice. A voice to actualize...

  • Biola Magazine

    Campaign Priority 3: Influence the World of Ideas

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola’s ambition is to become a global center for Christian thought — an institution that cultivates and disseminates influential scholarship,...

  • Biola Magazine

    A New Era for the Sciences

    Why focusing on science, technology and health is a key priority of The Campaign for Biola University

    Brett McCracken — 

    Throughout history, the discoveries and applications of science — electricity, DNA, penicillin, the mapping of the human genome — have changed the...

  • Biola Magazine

    A Transformed Campus

    Jason Newell — 

    Click for full-size map Over the past five years, Biola and its supporters have invested tens of millions of dollars to transform our La Mirada...

  • Biola Magazine

    Campaign Priority 2: Provide Facilities That Inspire Learning

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    As Biola’s student body has grown — more than doubling in size over the last two decades alone — so too have the physical needs of the burgeoning...

  • Biola Magazine

    Finding Family

    Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — 

    As he counted down the days to his graduation in May 2015, biochemistry major Marcus Olivares-Perez (’15) marveled at the many ways Biola had...

  • Biola Magazine

    Truth-Telling in Washington D.C.

    David Baxter, Brett McCracken — 

    As Katie Watson (’11) reflects on her Biola experience she remembers a professor who said, “Do you want to be a Christian journalist? Then be the...

  • Biola Magazine

    Training to Teach in China

    Stephanie Kim — 

    Si Nae Kim (’14) came to Biola against all financial odds. As an international student from China — where her parents serve as missionaries — Kim...

  • Biola Magazine

    Preparing for a Medical Career

    Cambria Aviles — 

    Gabby Odudu (’13) has wanted to work in medicine since she was a little girl, when she underwent numerous major surgeries on her eyes. “I basically...

  • Biola Magazine

    Serving the Battle-Scarred

    Brett McCracken — 

    Like many of his fellow servicemen, Matt Nethers came back from the Iraq War with physical scars. When an IED exploded next to his vehicle during...

  • Biola Magazine

    Knitting to Help Educate Girls in India

    Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — 

    During her time at Biola, Sarah (Sjoberg ’14) Evans balanced several jobs during the school year and graduated a semester early to save money....

  • Biola Magazine

    Following a Divine Script

    David Baxter, Jason Newell — 

    As a publicist in the film industry, Amy Ortega (’12) is convinced that no one but God could have scripted her unlikely journey. Ortega arrived at...