CENTENNIAL ISSUE WINTER 2008 AA CenturyCentury inin PicturesPictures 1908 to 2008 Presidential Inauguration Is Self-Publishing for You? Africa’s First Bible Commentary BIOLA XF TUJMM QSPDMBJN- ÓKFTVT TBWFTÔ Hjwf b npouimz hjgu jo 3119 jo dfmfcsbujpo pg CjpmbÖt 211ui zfbs pg frvjqqjoh nfo boe xpnfo jo njoe boe dibsbdufs up jnqbdu uif xpsme gps Kftvt Disjtu/ FBTZ XBZT UP HJWF; VTF FODMPTFE FOWFMPQF } CJPMB/FEV0HJWJOH } 911/743/5763 CONTENTS A Century in Pictures 1908 to 2008 04 Editor’s Note 05 Reader Mail 06 The Big Picture 18 08 President’s Perspective 10 Red Report News about the University, its students, alumni and faculty 32 17 Tell Me This 30 Ask An Expert Self-publishing 32 Devotional Finding contentment 33 In Print 33 34 Alumni News & Notes 35 Alumni Files 14 37 Where Are They Now? Dennis Wadley, Steve and Kathy Grant, Louima and Dephanie Lilite, Jerre White 39 Biolans Up Close Bill and Pam Farrel 43 About the Bible Alumnus leads effort to preserve deteriorating Scriptures 39 43 WINTER ’08 03 EDITOR’S NOTE Letters Publisher Biola University o the right of this column is one of the most popular sections of the President Barry H. Corey magazine, “Reader Mail.” Each time we publish an issue, someone Senior Vice President / Provost Twill approach me with a grin on his or her face and ask whether I had Gary A. Miller read such and such letter in the latest magazine. When I ask them which one Vice President for University (not reminding them of the role I play in publishing the letters), their brows Advancement Wesley K. Willmer raise as they fill me in on the details and tell me how much they absolutely Vice President for Financial Affairs and agreed or disagreed with the person who wrote it. Information Technology Carl Schreiber Receiving letters from readers (and hearing about them from other Vice President for University Services readers) is one of the things I’ve enjoyed most during my 10 years as Greg Balsano editor of Biola Magazine. And since readers seem to enjoy them too, I thought I would share some memorable Reader Mail moments from the Editor-in-Chief Rob Westervelt last decade. Managing Editor Holly Pivec Most of my personal favorites don’t get published. Like the one Art Director Dwayne Cogdill from a gentleman early in my tenure who had attempted several times Copy Editor Jason Newell to have his name removed from our mailing list. Thinking we weren’t Intern Emily O’Dell understanding his request, he described a dozen ways this could be done and ended the letter with “deep-six or otherwise obliterate my Editorial Board Rick Bee (’79, M.A. ’90, name from your mailing list.” His letter was handled so many times it Ph.D. ’01), Adam Morris (’90, M.A. ’97, Ph.D. was eventually lost, but not forgotten. ’02), Irene Neller, Holly (Peters, ’99, M.A. Another unforgettable letter came from a reader who complained ’05) Pivec, Rob Westervelt (M.A. ’97), that we only featured people who were successful or famous. She Wesley K. Willmer requested that we do an entire issue on those who consider themselves failures and asked that she be featured. This letter was not only saddening, but taught me early on that you can’t please everyone. Biola Magazine is published quarterly Some of the kindest letters come from alumni who have lost loved by Biola University’s Integrated Marketing ones or suffer from poor health. I’m often moved by their letters of Communications department and is sent to appreciation both for the school and for the magazine that helps them alumni, parents, supporters and friends of stay connected to it. I keep some of these letters in my desk and pray for the University. Biola’s mission is biblically those who have written them. One letter I keep close by is written in a centered education, scholarship and shaky hand by an alumnus who, in mid-life, suffers from an incurable service – equipping men and women in disease. In it he prays for God’s grace and mercy upon all his church. mind and character to impact the world Thank you to all who have written us over the years. Whether for the Lord Jesus Christ. positive or critical, your letters tell us that you care about Biola and the magazine. So please continue to write us, and if you’ve never written us Send correspondence to: before, we’d love to hear from you — as would the 60,000-plus who read Biola Magazine. Biola Magazine, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, CA 90639-0001, e-mail [email protected] or call (562) 906-4516. For address changes, e-mail [email protected] or call Constituency Records at (562) 903-4774. Rob Westervelt (M.A. ’97), Editor 04 BIOLA READER MAIL Love the Magazine fter reading the Editor’s Note, “Outnumbered,” I’m glad you’ve decided to stay in the game. I love reading your magazine (ever since A our eldest daughter, Mackenzie, started going to Biola in 2006), and I save them so I can refer to them again or pass them on to a friend. We are serving as missionaries here in the Philippines, so we don’t often have the opportunity to stop by the campus. It’s great to read about what is happening through your magazine and the parent connection online. Oh, by the way, I think the contrast between your Summer 2007 cover with Sam Harris and your Fall 2007 cover with Barry Corey is remarkable. Both men are created in the image of God, but they are clearly moving in different directions. May God keep your keyboard crackling and your eyestrain down! Chris Wassell Manila, Philippines Readers Respond to Reader Mail Text, Luther said: “I grasped that the justice of Editor’s note: According to Thomas Finley The criticisms leveled by a few in last month’s God is that righteousness by which through grace (one of the Hebrew professors cited in the “Reader Mail” seemed awfully disingenuous to and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith.” article), the Masoretic text does have punctu- me. An undergrad publication with the quality There cannot be misunderstanding that it is faith ation – accent marks that, in effect, serve as you young people present each month should- that starts the new birth in the person whom the punctuation. So, the Masoretic text, itself, n’t take too seriously such picayunishness. Father breathes His life upon, by the Holy Spirit! was mistaken. Hard, rational critique — yes! Trivialness — no! The Father does this because He honors the pas- By the way, I loved the “Rare Find” piece on sionate work of His Son on Calvary. Mr. Prepsky page 39. Lousy location for it, however! A col- surely isn’t suggesting that man can start the umn entitled “About the Bible” should be way work of grace. My initial response to the invita- Tell us what you think! up front … don’t you think? tion to understand Catholic theology is that we John Gillmartin (M.Div. ’86) Protestants understand it all too well! E-MAIL Tucson, Ariz. Rev. Kenneth Grissom [email protected] La Crescenta, Calif. Editor’s note: Actually, in magazines, the front MAIL inside cover and back inside cover are prime Giving the Masoretic a Bum Rap? Reader Mail, real estate. We chose the back inside cover for Your article “Rare Find Supports Book of Biola Magazine, our “About the Bible” department because it’s Jeremiah” suggests that translators using the 13800 Biola Avenue, the anchor of the magazine, just as the Bible is Masoretic text have wrongly placed the Nebo La Mirada, CA, 90639 the anchor of Biola. phrase; therefore, the Masoretic itself must be mistaken. However, if the Masoretic text has nei- WEB SITE In the Fall 2007 issue, Gordon Prepsky’s letter ther spacing nor punctuation marks, then the www.biola.edu/biolamag encourages unity among Protestants and differences you cited are with the Septuagint and Catholic doctrine. How might one further this translations such as the NASB and NKJV. Your Opinions should be a maximum of 200 “unity” when there is his assertion that article (though inspirational as for the tablet words and include full name, city and Protestants ignore pertinent portions of the New find) did not directly demonstrate fault with the state, and class year (if applicable). They Testament? Our esteemed leader in the Masoretic. Do you have a clarification? may be edited for length and clarity. Reformation period, Martin Luther, did not Sean Mauer “ignore” Romans 1:17. In meditating on this Washington Crossing, Pa. WINTER ’08 05 THE BIG PICTURE 06 BIOLA Making History With pomp and pageantry, Biola University formally installed Barry H. Corey as the eighth president in its 100-year history on Nov. 2. More than 3,500 witnessed the inauguration, held in Chase Gymnasium. Read more about this historic moment on page 10. WINTER ’08 07 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Our Promises to Parents t was a strange moment for me, that late my kindred spirit with them, but the common world for the Lord Jesus Christ. morning in late August. Lunch was about to be bond we as a Corey family shared with their How humbled we are as a family that God has Iserved to the 1,350 parents under the big tent children. Like these new students, we as a Corey called us to Biola to stand alongside faculty, staff, on Biola’s Metzger Lawn. These mothers and family were going through the sting and administrators and student leaders who pour fathers, from as near as La Mirada and La Habra adventure of a transition, uprooting from our their lives into these daughters and sons of Biola and as far as Bahrain and Kenya, found their way familiar world and beginning a new leg of the parents, day after day, year after year.