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  • 2025 Spring

    Calling all Coffee Lovers

    Alumni roasters brew up new partnership with custom ‘Biola Blend’

    Jason Newell — 

    School spirit may have never tasted so good. A pair of Biola alumni in the artisanal coffee roasting business have teamed up with the university to...

  • 2025 Spring

    Coming Attraction

    A sneak peek inside Biola’s new film studio

    Jason Newell — 

    Construction is well underway on a film studio that university leaders say will rival the best educational facilities in the nation for media...

  • 2025 Spring

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola Athletics celebrated another banner year of NCAA competition in 2024–25, highlighted by three conference titles, an individual national...

  • 2025 Spring

    A Great Recommission

    After nearly a century, Missions Conference gets meaningful new name

    Jason Newell — 

    This spring, Biolans did what they’ve done for 95 years: take a several-day pause from classes for the world’s largest student-organized conference...

  • 2025 Spring

    Marlo Kirkpatrick — 

    A work crew relocating a mural during the renovation of Sutherland Auditorium uncovered a window to Biola’s past and revived the memory of the...

  • 2025 Spring

    After Decades of Decline, Can Christianity Make a Comeback?

    Ed Stetzer shares surprising ‘State of the Church’ research on his cross-country Lead the Way Tour

    Jason Newell — 

    For decades, churches across America have watched attendance shrink and spiritual affiliation decline. But new data shows signs of a recent rise in...

  • 2025 Spring

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    End the Stalemate: Move Past Cancel Culture to Meaningful Conversations Sean McDowell (associate professor of Christian apologetics, B.A. ’98,...

  • 2025 Spring

    Stale Cheetos and What to Think When God Feels Distant

    Excerpt from Revering God: How to Marvel at Your Maker

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    Imagine the existence of a master chef who makes infinitely satisfying food. He is a culinary god in the kitchen. Chicken divan crepes, lobster...

  • 2025 Spring

    Nacho Average Director

    Nate Norell crashes the Super Bowl with alien-themed Doritos ad

    Marlo Kirkpatrick — 

    “I love taking ideas and bringing them to reality,” Nate Norell (B.A ’18) says. “Those ideas can be anything — a documentary film, a commercial,...

  • 2025 Spring

    Banana Bonanza

    Robert Anthony Cruz — known as ‘Coach RAC’ to millions of Savannah Bananas fans — brings flair and faith to the baseball diamond

    Tom Pfingsten — 

    On a balmy evening last year in Savannah, Georgia, Robert Anthony Cruz (’21) ran in to catch a high fly ball in left field. From the bleachers, it...

  • 2025 Spring

    Changing Lives One Note at a Time

    Country Music Association Foundation Teacher of Excellence Nora Hernandez

    Marlo Kirkpatrick — 

    Dr. Nora Hernandez (B.M. ’15, B.S. ’15, M.A. ’18) has known she was called to teach music since she was a student singing in her high school choir....

  • 2025 Spring

    Jason Newell — 

    In 1976, a young Don Hoffman — who had earned a business degree from Biola only six years earlier — felt called to do something that would bless...

  • 2025 Spring

    David Vazquez — 

    When I joined Biola University in June 2024, I arrived with great anticipation and a strong sense of calling — but also with limited familiarity. I...

  • 2023 Spring

    We Want to See Jesus

    Clarity for Higher Education

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    This year, Biola University welcomed Dr. Matthew J. Hall as its new provost and senior vice president — a key leadership position responsible for...

  • 2023 Spring

    What Gives Me Hope for Gen Z

    President’s Perspective

    Barry Corey — 

    This past semester during Missions Conference 2023, I saw the best of Gen Z. After attending most of the main sessions and talking to our...

  • 2023 Spring

    Jason Newell — 

    A Biola professor authored the best book of 2022, according to a panel of judges assembled by Christianity Today. In December, the magazine...

  • 2023 Spring

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola honored Robert P. George with the ninth annual Charles W. Colson Conviction and Courage Award this spring, recognizing the influential legal...

  • 2023 Spring

    New Deans Appointed to Lead Talbot, Crowell

    Christian scholar Ed Stetzer and former Amazon executive Michael Arena accept key roles

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola has appointed two accomplished Christian leaders to key academic roles at the university beginning this summer. Ed Stetzer, a well-known...

  • 2023 Spring

    Noelle Courselle — 

    Starting Fall 2023, Biola’s Talbot School of Theology will debut a fully online Certificate in Biblical and Theological Studies program taught...

  • 2023 Spring

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    The Connected Life, by Todd W. Hall (’91, Ph.D. ’96, professor of psychology), IVP, June 2022. Real human growth doesn’t come through head...

  • 2023 Spring

    Jason Newell — 

    On the first page of the Bible, we read that humanity is created “in the image of God” — a phrase that has inspired a great deal of theorizing and...

  • 2023 Spring

    Matt Redman Named ‘Songwriter in Residence’

    Influential worship artist begins new role in Biola’s Conservatory of Music

    Jason Newell — 

    As one of the most prolific worship artists of the past three decades, Matt Redman has helped millions of people around the world express their...

  • 2023 Spring

    Joanne Jung, Rick Langer — 

    The New Testament leaves no doubt as to the deity of Christ. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He is the creator of all...

  • 2022 Spring

    Barry Corey — 

    When I was a high school junior at Saint John’s, an all-boys private high school in New England, I took an economics class with Mr. Reidy. He...

  • 2022 Spring

    Christina Stryffeler — 

    A group of generous Biola supporters contributed over $12 million to the university during a single weekend in April 2022 — a record-breaking set...