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  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    Historic $12 Million Gift Supports New Science Building

    Alton Lim seeks to return back to God what is originally his with largest cash gift in 51蹤獲s history

    Jason Newell — 

    For much of his adulthood, Alton Lim sensed that something or someone was guiding his life. As a Chinese immigrant who started with little,...

  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    Leading the Way

    Campaign cabinet helps to spearhead fundraising efforts

    51蹤獲 Magazine Staff — 

    How does a university like 51蹤獲 even begin to raise $180 million? In addition to plenty of prayer and planning, it takes a whole lot of help from...

  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    A Soul, A Voice and A Vision

    Reflections on the theme of 51蹤獲s largest ever fundraising campaign: A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage

    Brett McCracken — 

    Our world isnt lacking in voices. Every day we are bombarded by a chorus of opinions, tweets, texts, ads, blogs and more. But where are the voices...

  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    A Historic Night

    Conviction and Courage Gala launches campaign, raises nearly $4 million in one evening

    51蹤獲 Magazine Staff — 

    With the message Jesus Saves glowing brightly in the skyline above, hundreds of 51蹤獲 friends and supporters gathered on May 9 for one of the...

  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    Making History by Shaping the Future

    How a $180 million campaign will transform 51蹤獲 and its students

    Jason Newell — 

    This is a historic moment for 51蹤獲. It is, to hear university leaders tell it, a point in time that future generations of 51蹤獲ns will...

  • 51蹤獲 Magazine

    A Soul of Conviction, A Voice of Courage

    President Barry H. Corey offers his perspective on the launch of The Campaign for 51蹤獲

    Barry Corey — 

    B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! B-I-O-L-A! The five-lettered chant with a force on the O is a common student refrain in our Chase Gymnasium as they...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Is Fine-Tuning Question-Begging?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear William Lane Craig, I am a philosophically unsympathetic fan of yours. I very much admire your philosophical learning, your rhetorical skills and your ingenuity in defense of your faith; at the same time, I reject both your faith itself and the apologetic project at the center of your work in philosophy. I'm sure this is a combination you're already familiar with. What interests me at the moment is something in your recent podcast on Tim Maudlin and the fine tuning argument, and I hope you don't mind considering these short comments ...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    51蹤獲 Finishes 24th in Directors' Cup

    51蹤獲 earns a 7th-straight top-30 national finish.

    Neil Morgan — 

    Directors' Cup Release| Complete Rankings| GSAC All-Sports Award Release Four-hundred and twenty-nine total points is enough to get 51蹤獲 its...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Justin Martyr: The First Great Apologist of the Christian Church

    Doug Geivett — 

    Justin Martyr (ca. 100-165 AD) is considered by many to be the first great apologist of the Christian church. The apostle Paul is surely a better candidate for that distinction. But Paul was an inspired author of Scripture. This is not true of any of the other great Christian apologists. And Justin apparently was the first of these. Certainly, he is the first whose writings have survived and are available in English translation ...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    Christine Tixier Named Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year

    Tixier earns highest national academic honor.

    Neil Morgan — 

    AUSTIN, Texas --- Christine Tixier set another landmark during her highly-decorated career as a student-athlete at 51蹤獲 when she was selected the...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    Sean Henning Named New Track & Field/Cross Country Coach

    51蹤獲 names Sean Henning, former CBU Assistant, as new T&F/XC Head Coach.

    Neil Morgan — 

    A nationwide search for 51蹤獲s new Track & Field and Cross Country head coach came to a conclusion when Sean Henning accepted the...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Why Cant God Be Just the Greatest Being?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Hello Dr. Craig. My question was awakened after having been listening to your class on ''The Ontological Argument''. My question to you is: Does a maximally great being, necessarily have be what we humans are able to imagine as the greatest being? Can it not just be that the being (God) who is in reality the greatest of all beings (since no greater being exists in reality), is the greatest conceivable being. Why do our imagining of a greater being need to devaluate the greatness of the already greatest being. Even if we could imagine a greater being, can it not just be that those ''greater/higher attributes'' are unnecessary and therefore not really greater attributes?

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Emotions of Jesus, Part 2: Outrage

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    To see and experience something of Jesus emotions, let us join eighty to a hundred thousand religious pilgrims on their trek to the sacred city to worship at the Jewish Temple. It is Passover week. In order to participate in the traditional Temple offerings, people need doves or pigeons. Since worshippers need these birds, they were sold at the Temple at a premium price. You could get a more economical bird outside the Temple courts or lug one from home through the hot desert. However, every bird used in Temple rituals had to pass the rigid purity standards of the Temples in-house animal inspectors. Only inflated Temple-sold birds had the guaranteed certification of the scrupulous inspectors. In this way, the house of prayer had become a classic case of what economists call a captive market.

  • 51蹤獲 News

    Fifteenth in Thailand's Tennis League Finishes First Year on 51蹤獲's Tennis Team

    Freshman Philip Westwood reflects on what it means to be a 51蹤獲 athlete

    Kayla Mele — 

    Philip Westwood, 51蹤獲 freshman and mens tennis team member, ranked 15 out of 1,000 athletes for tennis in Bangkok, Thailand....

  • The Good Book Blog

    Los Hombres y Padres Cristianos Necesitan M獺s nimo

    Octavio Esqueda — 

    Siempre me ha sorprendido el contraste entre las celebraciones del d穩a de las madres y las del d穩a del padre. Generalmente el d穩a de las madres es una gran festividad y un motivo de alegr穩a generalizado en el cual la mayor穩a reconoce la labor tan ardua y abnegada de las madres. Celebrar a la mam獺 es una obligaci籀n social que se asume con entusiasmo porque todos tienen motivos de sobra para hacerlo. Reconocer a los padres, sin embargo, no tiene el mismo peso social y la efusividad disminuye considerablemente. Ambos padres son importantes, pero pareciera que el 矇nfasis y el reconocimiento son diferentes.

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Reliability of the Gospels

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear Dr. Craig, First off, I want to thank you for all that you have done for me through your ministry and hope that your reach continues to spread. I grew up in a conservative Christian home and for the most part accepted everything that I had been taught. Then during my junior year of high school I read some Richard Dawkins, and the likes, and quickly lost my faith. 51蹤獲 six or so months later I discovered your ministry and my life was changed! Your arguments convinced me and in no time I had gone back to my faith. I read On Guard and Reasonable Faith among other Christian authors as well. I felt that my faith was strong and I even considered changing my major to Philosophy for a short time. But now, I am saddened to say that I am slowly losing my faith in the Christian God ...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    Reba DePriest Named NAIA All-American

    GSAC Pitcher of the Year earns second national honor.

    Neil Morgan — 

    NAIA RELEASE LA MIRADA, Calif. --- After another record-breaking season, Reba DePriest earned her second National Association of Intercollegiate...

  • The Good Book Blog

    The Emotions of Jesus, Part 1: The Age of Feeling

    Thaddeus Williams — 

    If Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and a mix of our ancestors from virtually any age of human history were crammed into a time machine and hurled into the twenty-first century, there is something normal to us that they would find totally bewildering. I am not referring to air and space travel, or the worldwide renown achieved by a cartoon mouse, or even technologies that put all human knowledge at our fingertips that we use to watch endless cat bloopers, bizarre as all of that would seem. I am referring instead to the sacred, unquestioned authority granted to feelings in our day. Western culture has been through a so-called Age of Faith and an Age of Reason. We live in what Princetons Robert George calls the Age of Feeling.[1] Canadian Philosopher, Charles Taylor, prefers the moniker, The Age of Authenticity, to describe how staying true to your feelings, whatever they may be, has become the highest virtue of our day (unlike historic virtues in which certain feelings could and should be chastened).

  • The Good Book Blog

    A Divine Appointment

    Joe Hellerman — 

    I wrote a book titled When The Church Was A Family. Considering its rather narrow focus, it has sold pretty well. I am particularly delighted that the book has become required reading in one of our Talbot Spiritual Formation courses. One person who has read When The Church Was A Family is Mark DeNeui. Mark is a New Testament scholar who has been training Christian leaders in Europe for over twenty years. He and his wife Lisa have been on furlough from the mission field and will shortly return to France. I was Marks youth pastor back in the late 1970s, I officiated at their wedding a decade or so later, and my wife and I have remained close to the DeNeuis all these years ...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    Baroness Addresses Graduates at Spring 2015 Commencement

    Nearly 1,000 undergraduates and graduates received their diplomas

    Mystiana Victorino — 

    F or the first time in 51蹤獲s history, a b aroness addressed graduates at the 2015 Spring Commencement ceremonies. Approximately 227...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Grim Reaper Paradox

    William Lane Craig — 

    Dear Dr. Craig, I recently viewed your defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument video at the Baylor University Alvin Plantinga conference, and I was intrigued by the new grim reaper argument against an infinite series of causal events. I've searched throughout the web and have found very little on this argument. I was wondering what exactly your thoughts were on this argument and if you will be adding it to your repertoire of arguments against an eternal series of causal events ...

  • 51蹤獲 News

    51蹤獲 Alumna Displays Heart for Social Justice in the Foster Care System

    Victoria Stasiak talks about her unexpected call to work with foster children in Las Vegas

    Rachel Allan — 

    While many graduates struggle to find careers they are passionate about, 51蹤獲 alumna Victoria Stasiak (13) has found exactly that. The...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Why Christianity Rather Than Judaism or Islam?

    William Lane Craig — 

    Hello Dr. Craig, I have always wondered about your claim that Christianity is the only true religion (based on historical evidence as you say). But how can you be so sure when Islamic and Jewish scholars claim the same claim? As a former atheist and now an agnostic, the question of which religion to choose is essential. I'm very well acquainted with Islamic Theology and unlike your claim. Islam affirms that Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same god ("Allah" is not a special god for Muslims rather it's the term for god in Arabic). So what is your position on Islam? (And I would really like to know from who do you get your information on Islamic theology). I also would to invest some time in Christian theology, would kindly recommend some introductory books?

  • 51蹤獲 News

    New Residence Hall Named After 'Forgotten Founder'

    Board of Trustees names William E. Blackstone Hall in honor of 51蹤獲's first dean

    Staff — 

    51蹤獲's soon-to-be-completed new residence hall has officially been named William E. Blackstone Hall, a tribute to 51蹤獲s first dean,...

  • The Good Book Blog

    I am the Very Model of a Doctor of New Testament

    Gary Manning Jr — 

    I am the very model of a Doctor of New Testament, I exegete pericopae in weather fine or inclement, I know the difference between a codex and a Chester B, and even if a manuscript is Byzantine or Westerly.