The heart of poet Dana Gioia’s work is being able to capture the beauty of God’s creation: “What beauty does is beauty draws us to the infinite number of perfections of creation. It calls forth things in ourselves. The same way it did to me as a kid not knowing this - it calls forth to us to achieve...

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted the job market and education. LLM is a program that is trained on a massive dataset of various forms of written language to learn patterns that enable it to generate text, known as Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Schools, corporations,...

The Biola app community feed is a space for conversation, memes and fellowship. In some cases, there are also calls for new ideas. One such idea has emerged from the feed: it is called “Write” on Cue, a new group dedicated to creative writing. Sophomore communications major Catherine Duda, the...

If the Torrey Program is known for one thing, it’s all the reading that they do. In fact, Torrey students read about 12-18 books per semester (excluding the books they read outside of Torrey). Though this feels like a heavy weight to deal with, Torrey students are able to engage with and process through...

Amid the various student publications here at Biola, Inkslinger is one for students of any major to step up and submit their creative pieces for publication. Whether students are majoring in the arts or the sciences, all are welcome to celebrate their creativity together in Biola’s literary journal. THE...

Hope is hard to find in dark times, but the Biola-produced student film “Healing” shows that it is not impossible. Biola’s Motion Picture Production class is one that cinema and media arts students look forward to taking, and despite all the COVID-19 regulations, this semester's class has not let...

Writing takes time whether it is a term paper, doctoral thesis or book. For assistant professor of biblical and theological studies Leon Harris, the process took about four and half years to write his book, “The Holy Spirit as Communion.” This work, which shares a name with his doctoral thesis, featured...

Students should celebrate what they learn with creativity—or so the English department encourages through its Celebration of Student Writing event. Aligning with the chapel theme of illumination, students had the opportunity to translate what they learned in their English 113 classes into creative...

Intercultural studies majors have the requirement of serving overseas with a missions organization of their choice to attain experience in the field they intend to go into as a graduation requirement.They have missions prep-courses and spend time preparing for and debriefing from their internship. REQUIRE...