When Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, debate sparked over his replacement.  President Joe Biden explained his intention to nominate a Black woman for the position, which led to concerns over racial preference. After searching for an appropriate fit, Biden nominated...

Findings from Biola’s second Gender Climate Study were released in 2019 with data gathered from online questionnaires sent to students, faculty and staff. The study included in-depth interviews with 31 faculty members, 30 staff members and 30 undergraduate students.The faculty questionnaire received...

After 27 years of service, Justice Stephen Breyer announced his impending retirement from the Supreme Court. The 83-year-old liberal justice faced pressure from the left to retire while the Democrats maintain power in the White House and Senate, NBC reports.  Even before Breyer’s retirement announcement,...

Religious institutions across the country are awaiting the Senate vote on H.R.5 – the Equality Act. Amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equality Act defines and includes sex, sexual orientation and gender indentity as categories protected from discrimination or segregation. As a religious university...

Establishing authority in the classroom as a female professor of color can be emotionally and mentally draining, according to tenured associate professor of English Maria Su Wang. As a professor, Wang has faced many hurdles in her career, many of them stemmed from the preconceived notions students create...

The Biola community rallied around survivors of sexual assault this week, championing awareness of the often-taboo subject through a series of displays and dialogues. The campaign to improve sexual assault awareness involved opportunities for members of the community to write notes of encouragement...

In their first advertising campaign of 2019, razor manufacturer Gillette released a commercial bemoaning the entire male gender’s supposed complicity in phenomena ranging from bullying to sexual harassment. Although many viewers saw the ad as an encouragement for men to be “the best they can be,”...

​In a previous Chimes article, the authors question the intent behind acts of chivalry stating that such acts can really be disguises for what they call “benevolent sexism.” The word itself renders confusion, as by their own admission sexism is “harmful to people and gender equality,” which...

Christians are commanded to love their neighbor as they love themselves. This has implications for how they live their lives—how they communicate, what they believe and how they interact with others. But are we doing this well? What can we do to love people more deeply? Although we strive to serve...

This story was originally published in print on Nov. 15, 2018. Students at the University of Pennsylvania set off a controversy in 2016 when they removed a prominent portrait of William Shakespeare in their English building and replaced it with a portrait of  Audre Lorde, a black, feminist poet. The...

After speaking to various people in Biola’s Cinema and Media Arts department, it has come to my attention the great gender gap that plagues each classroom. Considering Biola has a large percentage of females as opposed to males, it is an oddity that the film program is dominated by the Y chromosome....

In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, a conversation has erupted on the unacceptable increase of mass shootings in the United States. Often, political leanings determine which overused and underdeveloped platitude you state as the solution to the problem.  The meme-fueled debate often serves...