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  • 2013 Winter

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Kristi Schliep (’00) recently partnered with Youth for Christ Asia to create and launch EMBARK Asia Pacific, a new cross-cultural youth ministry...

  • 2013 Winter

    Ashish Naidu — 

    Nestled deep in the heart of the Swiss Jura Mountains is the Vallée de Joux, home to several watchmaking companies since the 17th century, where...

  • 2013 Winter

    Alumni Files: Winter 2013

    A New Team Member & New Things in Store

    Rick Bee — 

    Last summer, ŷַ completed an extensive professional study of our alumni and parent programs that provided some key information and direction for...

  • 2013 Winter

    Get to Know: Winter 2013

    Matt Cruzen, burger-loving microbiologist

    Amber Amaya — 

    Cloning genes and studying worms comes naturally to Matt Cruzen, a man with a fascination for how life works, even at the molecular level. Cruzen,...

  • 2013 Winter

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice, by Edward W. Klink III (associate professor of biblical and theological...

  • 2013 Winter

    Free For All

    Editor's Note

    Jason Newell — 

    On a weeknight about four years ago, I walked down the pathway that runs past ŷַ’s Bell Tower, climbed into my car and let out an audible, “...

  • 2013 Winter

    Barry Corey — 

    My journey began in a blue-collar hard-scrabble community south of Boston. There my father was a preacher in a local church where people came to...

  • 2013 Winter

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    For the third year in a row, U.S. News and World Report in September named ŷַ to its list of “up and coming” schools — a recognition given to...

  • 2013 Winter

    Theologians on Deck

    Alumnus launches line of 'Theologian Trading Cards'

    Brett McCracken — 

    Looking for something to give a seminary student or theology buff this holiday season? Norman Jeune III (’05, M.A. ’07) may have conceived the...

  • 2013 Winter

    Theology Comes West

    First annual Los Angeles Theology Conference to debut at ŷַ

    Amber Amaya — 

    On the list of things Los Angeles is known for, theology isn’t exactly near the top. But with the launch of a new conference at ŷַ in January,...

  • 2013 Winter

    Grub on the Go

    ŷַ adds new dining option with launch of food truck

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    In cities across America, food trucks have been all the rage in recent years. Specializing in ethnic, artisan and fusion cuisine (Mexican-Korean...

  • 2013 Winter

    ŷַ to Launch Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts

    $750K grant from Fieldstead and Company will establish new center next year

    Jason Newell — 

    ŷַ has received a $750,000 grant to establish a new Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts, a significant initiative that...

  • 2013 Winter

    Free!

    How ŷַ is Leading a Movement to Give Away Thousands of Educational Resources

    Jason Newell — 

    On a Wednesday back in August, professor Joanne Jung paced across a computer screen in Indonesia, leading a class discussion on personality types...

  • 2013 Winter

    Fred Sanders — 

    At ŷַ, free goes all the way back: In fact, ŷַ has been giving things away since before there was a ŷַ. The school officially came into...

  • 2013 Winter

    There and Back Again

    After four decades, Doug Pennoyer returns to the jungle village where his anthropology career got its start

    Brett McCracken — 

    Chances are good that very few ŷַns have ever heard of the Tawbuid — a small indigenous tribe in Mindoro, an island in the Philippines. But...

  • 2013 Winter

    Scott Rae — 

    This January marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the most polarizing rulings in U.S. Supreme Court history. Handed down on Jan. 22,...

  • 2013 Winter

    Patty Houser — 

    Sharing our faith is both exhilarating and frustrating. It is exhilarating because when we talk about the reasons why Jesus is the only name by...

  • 2013 Winter

    Amber Amaya — 

    ŷַ celebrated its inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony on Sept. 15, inducting three of the university’s most outstanding former...

  • 2013 Winter

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Cross Country The women’s cross country team won its second Golden State Athletic Conference title in the past three years on Nov. 3 at the GSAC...

  • 2012 Fall

    Get to Know: Fall 2012

    Doretha O'Quinn, world-traveling culture-crosser

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Doretha O’Quinn is here to help burst the so-called “ŷַ bubble.” As vice provost of multi-ethnic and cross-cultural engagement, part of O’Quinn’...

  • 2012 Fall

    Alumni Files: Fall 2012

    What I Love About Send-Offs

    Rick Bee — 

    For the alumni and parent relations departments, the summer months were filled with alumni chapter meetings, Student Send-Offs and numerous other...

  • 2012 Fall

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Alan Hamilton’s (’83, M.Div. ’87) love for engaging the local community has led him to “great and exciting work” as the executive director of the...

  • 2012 Fall

    ŷַns Up Close: Fall 2012

    Mike Erre (M.A. '04), Pastor and author

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Since graduating from ŷַ’s Talbot School of Theology in 2004 with an M.A. in philosophy of religion and ethics, Mike Erre has become an...

  • 2012 Fall

    Michelle Barnewall — 

    In The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard identifies what he calls “disciplines of engagement” and “disciplines of abstinence.” Examples of...

  • 2012 Fall

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Accidental Pharisees: Avoiding Pride, Exclusivity, and the Other Dangers of Overzealous Faith, by Larry Osborne (’74, M.A. ’78, D.Min. ’86),...