Biola Magazine: 2010 Spring

Talking Tech

Jason Newell — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Photo by Stephen Hernandez At one university in Iowa, students don’t need to make the long walk to the end of their dorm hallway just to find out whether a washing machine is available. As it turns out, there an app for that....

And the Winner Is...

Jason Newell — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Photo by Stephen Hernandez Looking for a good book? Several of last year best came from Biola authors, according to judges in some of the highest-profile honors in Christian publishing. In January, Christianity Today included three...

Alumni Create Super Bowl Commercial

Biola Magazine Staff — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Two Biola alumni “crashed” the Super Bowl in February, when their Doritos commercial, “Casket,” aired during the first quarter of the game. Kevin Willson (’01) and Stephen Yao (’05) entered Doritos’ fourth annual “Crash the Super Bowl”...

Following in a Founder's Footsteps

Brett McCracken — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Growing up, junior Joanna Torrey knew her great-great-grandfather was someone important — a well known missionary and evangelist whose picture was framed on the piano of her family Connecticut home. But to Joanna, R.A. Torrey was always just “...

Rebuilding a Nation, One Life at a Time

Marisol Ramirez — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

It happens every year: Innocent lives around the world are forever altered by uncontrollable forces like war, natural disasters and changing economies. As humans, our first reaction is to act urgently to help the devastated victims, praying for...

Who's Yo Mama?

Joe Hellerman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Does Jesus ever surprise you with the ways that he responds to certain individuals in the Bible? The following interchange certainly cries out for some explanation. Here we are in the middle of Luke Gospel, Jesus is teaching in public, when...

Is the Internet Killing Journalism?

Biola Magazine Staff — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

These are tough times for the news business. With readers increasingly getting their news for free online and advertisers spending less to reach the dwindling print audiences, many publications are struggling to survive. Several major newspapers,...

Self-Deception by Means of Procrastination

Gregg TenElshof — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

Beliefs are sometimes demanding. Often they break in on us unexpectedly and take to ordering us around like uninvited tyrants. One minute we’re happy about our business. The next minute, we find ourselves with an uncomfortably demanding belief....

Helping Haiti Through Music

Brett McCracken, Brittany Mccomb — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

At 4:52 p.m. on Jan. 12, Louima Lilite (’99), a professor of music at Oklahoma Baptist University, was in a planning session for the music camp he directs. At 4:53, everything started violently shaking. Lilite got out of his chair, secured a lamp...

Redemption in the Rubble

Brittany Mccomb — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0800

In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and reduced Haiti capital city of Port-au-Prince to ruins, several Biolans — including a recent graduate, a university administrator, a radio reporter and an army...