With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, I have two game plans. The first: to hang out with my housemates. The second: to hang out with my housemates. It’s not the fact that we haven’t had offers for Valentine’s Day dates, which were hard to turn down, or that we chide Valentine’s Day for...

A stagnant leader is as unpalatable as sipping a flat soda. Here at Biola, we spend hundreds of hours studying the New Testament, much of which was penned by a revolutionary named Paul. Paul was no stagnant leader. This Jewish Pharisee-turned-unlikely-missionary spent his life sharing an unpopular,...

It’s Christmastime again. I know what you’re thinking -- we go through the same rituals every year. Thanksgiving ends, and everyone readies themselves for the coming holiday. My family bought our tree just days after we had consumed our turkey. But how can buying a Christmas tree put me into the...

What ever happened to a good old “Merry Christmas?” To the times when our country was united “under God,” rather than trying to get rid of Him? Increasingly more in our society, the term “Merry Christmas” is being replaced with the barren phrase “Happy Holidays.” For example, in...

The last several Thanksgivings I survived have been “experiences.” Not necessarily in the same way that action movies are “the thrill-ride adrenaline-soaked experience of the summer.” They’re more like those internships where you don’t get paid but they are a “good experience for your resume.” Over...

Strike, Day 5: Michael Farr, Hair Cuts, and Whitney: A Strike in Review 11/22/07 6:38 p.m. Attention, I have an announcement to make; the strike is officially over. Actually it’s been over since Tuesday, although I’m afraid that this was too late for many of the writers who were joining...

There was an incident last week at Azusa Pacific. Late Tuesday night, Nov. 5, a car full of Biolans pulled on to APU’s campus. They reached Smith Hall, rolled down a window and proceeded to yell obscenities at passing Azusa students. A student in passing was particularly mad at the situation and decided...