Biola Magazine: 2020 Fall

How to Disagree Without Dividing

Biola Magazine Staff — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:00:00 -0800

More than any year in recent memory, 2020 has been a perfect storm for conflict. Over the past several months, we’ve survived a particularly contentious presidential election season. We’ve experienced a summer defined by racial unrest,...

Biola Biblical Approach to Racial Justice

Barry Corey — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:58:00 -0800

On March 11, just a week before we began emptying the campus in response to Covid-19, about 100 of us sat in a circle at 91��Ƭ�� Calvary Chapel listening to the stories of students from diverse backgrounds. We gathered in response to racial issues...

Torrey Honors Institute Becomes Torrey Honors College

Jenna Loumagne — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:46 -0800

Biola Torrey Honors Institute changed its name in September to Torrey Honors College — a move that better reflects the program impact and position as a national leader among Christian undergraduate honors programs, university leaders said. “I...

Biola Honored for ‘Best Undergraduate Teaching’

Biola Magazine Staff — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:42 -0800

Biola University has again been named one of America top-tier national universities by U.S. News and World Report, earning special recognition in the publication Best Colleges 2021 rankings for such areas as teaching, first-year experiences...

Finding ‘Hope in Crisis’

Kristen Hartman — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:39 -0800

Four years ago, Alisa Sanchez met Jesus. Someone at the shelter where she and her infant daughter were staying explained the gospel, and the direction of Sanchez life changed. Despite challenges, she began pursuing a college education, but she...

Mentoring Minorities in Medicine

Joanna Wu — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:35 -0800

Ixchel “Izzy” Gomez is on a mission to practice medicine — and she wants to bring others like her along with her. Growing up in a largely Hispanic, Pentecostal church community, Gomez often accompanied her parents to visit church members who were...

Meet the Deans – Fall 2020

Biola Magazine Staff — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:31 -0800

Three of Biola nine schools began the academic year under the leadership of new deans, each stepping into their roles this summer following extensive nationwide searches. The three new academic leaders include a major television network...

An Antidote to Burnout

Joanna Wu — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:23 -0800

Many people strive to achieve a healthy work-life balance — an ideal that has become all the more challenging in the midst of a pandemic that has turned millions of homes into makeshift offices and classrooms over the past year. But even under the...

Books by Biolans – Fall 2020

Biola Magazine Staff — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:16 -0800

God and Guns in America, by Michael W. Austin (M.A. ’00), Eerdmans, May 2020. The gun debate is raging in America. Senseless acts of gun violence have sparked controversy about the right to own a gun. How should Christians respond? Austin, an...

God, Justice and Generosity

Michelle Barnewall — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:54:13 -0800

How does the grace of God conflict with our ideas of justice? I think of how much I want things to be just. If I work hard, I want it to be rewarded. If I do something good, I want to be recognized for it. If I sacrifice for someone, I want them...