/blogs/biola-magazine/articles/category/2012-winter Biola Magazine Staff <strong> You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church … And Rethinking Faith </strong>, by David Kinnaman (’96), Baker Books, October 2011. More than 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. Where Kinnaman first... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/in-print-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/in-print-winter-2012 Amy Seed George Bell is someone you can’t help looking up to. Standing at his full height of 7 feet 8 inches, Bell (’82) was named the “Tallest Man in the United States” by the <em>Guinness Book of World Records </em>in November 2007. (The title was later claimed... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/biolans-up-close-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/biolans-up-close-winter-2012 Biola Magazine Staff What do you get when you combine a love for snakes, Native American folklore, opera and urban ministry? The answer is Freddy Cardoza, chair of Biola University Christian education department — a man with many interests and professional roles.... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/get-to-know-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/get-to-know-winter-2012 Mick Boersma When we moved into our house several years ago the backyard was a mess. The previous owners had large dogs, which had torn up whatever grass had survived from the late ’50s, when the neighborhood was built. And there was that ugly wall separating... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/the-trellises-out-back-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/the-trellises-out-back-winter-2012 Biola Magazine Staff <strong>Sharon</strong> (<strong>Ramsey</strong>, ’84) <strong>Hansen</strong> has held a leadership position for 19 out of the 20 years she has worked with Southwest Airlines. She currently works as a change and learning facilitator for Southwest in Phoenix, Ariz. She trains new hires and... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/where-are-they-now-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/where-are-they-now-winter-2012 Rick Bee For all of the benefits of a Biola education — the great Bible training, the lifelong relationships and the Biola community that we all enjoyed as students — the one thing that many alumni have felt they missed in not attending one of the large... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/alumni-files-winter-2012 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/alumni-files-winter-2012 Biola Magazine Staff <em>For this issue of Biola Magazine, we asked Biola alumni and current students to share the most memorable and important lessons they learned from their 30 required units of Bible and theology classes. Thirty responses made it into our "30 Units,...</em> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/more-30-units-lessons /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/more-30-units-lessons Biola Magazine Staff As any Biola student or graduate can tell you, one of the things that makes Biola University distinct from other colleges is the requirement for every traditional undergraduate student to take 30 units of Bible and theology classes — amounting to... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/30-units-30-lessons /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/30-units-30-lessons Biola Magazine Staff Photography by Laurel Dailey ('05) Talbot East is more than just the eye-catching new structure next to Calvary Chapel; it a building that will revolutionize the Biola University campus. In addition to adding much-needed classroom space (eight... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/inside-talbot-east /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/inside-talbot-east Jason Newell Back in October, professor Gregg Ten Elshof was sitting across from radio talk show host Frank Pastore, explaining his vision for the soon-to-be-launched “Biola University Center for Christian Thought” to a listening audience. As he started to... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0800 /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/introducing-the-biola-university-center-for-christ /blogs/biola-magazine/2012/introducing-the-biola-university-center-for-christ