Various forms of Bible study were popularized in the YouTube community. Personal Bible study can range from reading and meditation, journaling or in-depth analysis that considers historical and cultural context. Christians constantly experiment, creating new techniques, tools and arts to study with.  Conducting...

On Sept. 20, President Barry Corey composed a retrospective, which considers Biola’s founding principles and how the university achieves them. He listed six principles aligning with Biola’s commitment to Christian values. SIX PILLARS Corey detailed six pillars that represent Biola’s commitments...

Our world is in the midst of a racial reckoning. The brutal murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor set a racial tone in America with the backdrop of a global pandemic that has revealed longstanding injustices for African Americans in particular. Tension and anxiety surrounding the coronavirus...

(This story was originally published in print on Nov. 14, 2019). From club icebreakers to classroom conversations, “what’s your enneagram number?” is a question Biola students hear nearly every day. The enneagram is a personality test that stems from the Greek word “ennea,” meaning nine,...

As Lent season comes to a close, the Center for Christianity Culture and the Arts finishes its sixth year of the Lent Project. The daily online devotionals speak to the project’s roughly 38,000 subscribers through Scripture, art, poetry and music. This year, the Lent series was offered from March...

In the article, “A 24K eyesore: Calvary Chapel’s redesign failure,” the author expresses a common disapproving opinion of Calvary Chapel’s artistic renovation. While many people maintain that Calvary is too extravagant, confusing or simply ugly, the writer argues that the chapel fails to uphold...

Today, we find our society in a war between liberty and freedom, permeating every level of our society.  How this war ends will define the course of our nation. This war not only implicates the nation, but also the American church. If the church chooses to understand the freedom of Christ to mean we...

The stadiums filled with listeners eager to hear the encouragement of the gospel and a call to repent, eager to hear a message in which Scripture confronted culture. Then the microphone cracked, and a voice came booming through the crowds. “The Bible says,” the Rev. Billy Graham would begin. In...

“Come, O come, Emmanuel.” During the holiday season, these Christmas carol lyrics resonate with followers of Jesus as they remember the incarnation of the Prince of Peace and the promise of his kingdom come. The Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts produces the Advent Project, an advent...