At the start of every semester, the Torrey Honors College holds a series of lectures for each class of students called “Why You Read What You Read,” wherein a handful of professors review the course reading list and draw upon the larger intellectual discourse at play. Their answer to the larger “Why?”...

Q: What was your vision when you came to the university? A: “What I loved about Biola, and still do, is here’s a school that takes high levels of education seriously, has never forsaken the truth of scripture at the core of who we are and has this kind of intellectual heart of trying to preserve...