/blogs/biola-magazine/articles/category/2017-summer Biola Magazine Staff <strong>The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How it Ends, and Everything Important That Happens In Between,</strong> by Gregory Koukl (M.A. ’06), Zondervan, January 2017. Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It more than... Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/in-print-summer-2017 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/in-print-summer-2017 Biola Magazine Staff New visitors to Biola campus are getting the red-carpet treatment — make that red-<em>wall</em> treatment. In April, the university debuted a new Admissions Welcome Center, designed to be a vibrant and inviting space for prospective students and their... Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/a-warm-welcome-summer-2017 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/a-warm-welcome-summer-2017 Diane Vincent <em>A faculty charge delivered by Diane Vincent at the installation ceremony for Provost and Senior Vice President Deborah Taylor on Oct. 26, 2016.</em> Dr. Taylor, we are a place that trains nurses and scholars, equips teachers and engineers, prepares... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/a-charge-to-maintain-liberal-arts /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/a-charge-to-maintain-liberal-arts Rick Bee Can you hear it? The gentle roar of the surf on the shore? The smell of saltwater and sunblock filling your nose? Or, maybe for you, summer means the smell of cut grass and the crack of the bat at a baseball game, or the shouts and screams of kids... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/spend-your-summer-with-biola /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/spend-your-summer-with-biola Kristen Hartman One morning during her sophomore year, sitting in Rose of Sharon Chapel, Sarah Lum (’14) knew she had a decision to make. She came to Biola interested in both pre-law and pre-med, but it was time to choose. Should she change her major to... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/chemistry-in-the-crime-lab /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/chemistry-in-the-crime-lab Kathryn Toombs When Brandon Cash (M.Div. ’98) graduated with a degree from Biola Talbot School of Theology, he thought his days in the athletic sphere were over. Before coming to college he had dreamed of becoming a professional golfer, but after recommitting... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/sermon-on-the-mound /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/sermon-on-the-mound Joanna Wu Sarah Villegas (’04) is determined to decrease the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Kenya. As a doctor and global health leadership fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Villegas is currently... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/showing-gods-love-through-c-sections /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/showing-gods-love-through-c-sections Five hundred years ago, the Protestant Reformation led the way out of the supposed theological dark ages and brought us <em>ad fontes</em>, back to the Bible. We recognize five main features to come from the Reformation: 1) Scripture alone is our highest... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/the-good-of-tradition-when-undergirded-by-scriptur /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/the-good-of-tradition-when-undergirded-by-scriptur Biola Magazine Staff A brief interview with Darian Lockett (associate professor of biblical and theological studies), who served on the translation oversight committee for the <strong>Christian Standard Bible</strong>, Holman, 2017. <strong>What sets the Christian Standard Bible apart from...</strong> Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/translating-the-text /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/translating-the-text Biola Magazine Staff Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “What we are worshiping we are becoming.” In other words, our deities shape our identities. Let us call this Emerson Law. Consider this law in the lives of two men: Charles Darwin said, “My chief enjoyment and... Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:00:00 -0700 /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/the-withered-leaf-and-the-garden /blogs/biola-magazine/2017/the-withered-leaf-and-the-garden