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To defend liberty, one must defend life

To defend liberty, one must defend life
The importance of an ordered liberty: A response to “Trump supports March for Life.”
Peter Rothermel VI, Freelance Writer February 20, 2018

Disclaimer: This piece was written in response to “Trump supports March for Life,” published Feb. 6. A recent article in the Chimes argued Christians should not support restrictions on abortion—or dismembering babies in the womb—because, “A restrictionist government is non-democratic.”...

DACA—Immigration policy limits political solutions

DACA—Immigration policy limits political solutions
International policy should affect immigration policy.
Logan Zeppieri, Opinions Editor February 13, 2018

On Feb. 7, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi set the record for the longest house floor speech since at least 1909, speaking on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients. While the immigration debate began during the last presidential election, the question of what to do with illegal immigrants...

Nigel, the loneliest bird

Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 13, 2018

The New York Times recently published a piece on the story of a seabird named Nigel who lived in New Zealand. In an attempt to get this species of bird to return to the island—which interestingly enough is called Mana Island—they built stone birds, painted their beaks to resemble that of the...

Turn Your Campus encourages increase in diversity

Turn Your Campus encourages increase in diversity
Campus fills with people of color through the faces of young students.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 13, 2018

Once every year, unbeknownst to many students—except to those who go to the Caf between 12 and 3 p.m. on Saturdays—Biola hosts hundreds of junior high and high school students from all over Orange and LA counties and their surrounding areas. I have had the opportunity to serve with Turn Your Campus twice...

Trump supports March for Life

Trump supports March for Life
“The most pro-life President in American history” encroaches on right to liberty.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 6, 2018

According to Fox News, on Friday Jan. 19, President Donald Trump gave a speech at the Rose Garden, which was live-streamed to those at the March for Life at the National Mall. PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT “The first-ever live speech by a president to the pro-life activists of the annual March for Life...

China’s Christians set an example

China’s Christians set an example
A shift in worldview allows for a grateful attitude.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 6, 2018

Recently, I had a discussion with a girl in my small group. Her name is Minji and she had just joined our church upon coming back from studying abroad in China for a year. She spoke of their underground church, and the way they worshipped quietly, in the dark, in secret, and how amazing it felt to be...

Corey’s Corner: Sensitivity without hypersensitivity

Corey’s Corner: Sensitivity without hypersensitivity
DBC offers academic direction in today’s political climate.
President Barry Corey February 6, 2018

Christian Smith is a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame. He studied at Wheaton and Gordon Colleges and has held academic posts at Gordon and the University of North Carolina before heading to South Bend. He has got an ever-keen mind and an often-pointed pen. That pen inked a story last...

Church youth are called to speak

Church youth are called to speak
Examine Elihu as an example of admonishment.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 6, 2018

Upon entering Biola, students are encouraged to get involved in the local church. We have heard President Barry Corey and others in authority speak on the importance and influence of involvement in community upon spiritual and personal growth. FEED OTHERS—STOP TAKING So we volunteer, get hired...

‘Do you think I am fat?’

'Do you think I am fat?'
Chrissy Metz’s self-acceptance inspires self love in the presence of the three letter “f” word.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor February 3, 2018

Last week, I watched a new episode of This Is Us with my dad. If you know the show, you know one of the three siblings, Kate, portrayed by Chrissy Metz, struggles with weight and body image. The episode focused on the mother, Mandy Moore’s character, and her concern for her daughter’s weight....

Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” banned in American prisons

Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” banned in American prisons
Call out systematic, structural racism and you might just get banned.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor January 31, 2018

While researchers at Pew Research center have recently claimed the number of black Americans imprisoned has declined substantially within America, almost by 25 percent since 2009, a general fear seems to exist in prison systems when the term “New Jim Crow” is used. PRISONS BANNING BOOKS Particularly,...

The church ‘deals’ with sexual assault

The church ‘deals’ with sexual assault
Grace is not prison and counseling is not consequence.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor January 30, 2018

We all remember the Duggars: a family who had represented the extremely conservative qualities of the Christian faith until May of 2002. The eldest Duggar child, Josh, then began to come forward with multiple confessions of sexually assaulting victims—including his younger sisters—to his parents. Below...

Russell Brand reminds the Church to witness

Biblically-educated Christians forget the urgency of the gospel.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor January 30, 2018

In the most recent edition of Relevant Magazine, Russell Brand states: BRAND MEETS JESUS “There’s a famous quote that goes ‘Every man who knocks on a brothel door, he’s looking for God.’ Crack houses and these dens of suffering and illicit activity, they are all people trying to feel good...