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  • ŷַ Magazine

    My Favorite C.S. Lewis Quotes

    Jerry Root — 

    Jerry Root (M.Div. ’78) has been a student and scholar of C.S. Lewis for more than 43 years and annually shares his passion with ŷַ students as...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Staying Power

    Four reasons why Lewis’ legacy endures

    Jerry Root — 

    I am often amazed that interest in C.S. Lewis’ writing continues to flourish. What is it that gives him his staying power? My hunch is that there...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Still Looking for C.S. Lewis

    Fifty years after the author's death, why has "the next Lewis" remained so elusive?

    Chris Mitchell — 

    For the past nearly two decades I have been routinely asked, “Where are the C.S. Lewises of our day?” What they are asking is, “Who are the people...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    The Brain Fixers

    With help from ŷַ students, alumni Susan and Jerry Rueb are bringing healing and support to people with serious brain injuries

    Amber Amaya — 

    Photography by Greg Schneider On an early September morning in 2011, Steve Grove strapped on his bicycle helmet and set out for a familiar ride...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    A Beautiful Mosaic

    Inside the New Mosaic Cultural Center

    Amber Amaya — 

    Nestled between Talbot East and Sutherland Hall, the Mosaic Cultural Center is a new space that will play an important role in the university’s...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Spring Sports Roundup

    ŷַ women win GSAC championship

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Track and Field The women’s track and field team won its first-ever championship in April at the Golden State Athletic Conference Outdoor Track...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    9 Highlights from the ŷַ Center for Christian Thought’s First Year

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    May marked the close of the first full academic year for the ŷַ Center for Christian Thought, which spent two semesters exploring the...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Meet the Ruby Award Winners

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    From the left, are Janine Nichols, Nancy Fernandez, Virginia Moats and La Verne Tolbert ŷַ honored four women with Ruby Awards during a special...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    A $1.5 Million Question

    ŷַ professor leads new research into how to measure humility

    Jason Newell — 

    Moses, according to the biblical book of Numbers, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth. But for the rest of us, how can...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    School of Education Goes Global

    Faculty offer resources and training to schools in Burundi, Cambodia and Lebanon

    Brett McCracken — 

    At evangelical institutions like ŷַ, there’s a lot of passion to share the gospel and make disciples across the globe. But what if the people we...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    ŷַ Makes National 'Green' List

    Princeton Review includes ŷַ on list of most environmentally friendly colleges

    Brett McCracken — 

    Sprawling lawns, eternally leafy trees and hordes of wide-eyed freshman are not the only things “green” on campus these days. Increasing efforts...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    How Should We Then Learn? ŷַ’s Response to the Digital Revolution

    Barry Corey — 

    If you asked me what course had a significant impact on my undergraduate education, I would tell you about the one taught by Professor Twila...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Saint Lewis

    Editor's Note

    Jason Newell — 

    C.S. Lewis died 50 years ago this November, and if this is the first time you’ve been made aware of that fact, it probably won’t be the last. The...

  • The Good Book Blog

    Cheating in Sports and Life, Part Two

    John McKinley — 

    In response to the ongoing revelations of widespread cheating in professional sports, my earlier blog explored the idea of cheating as compared to New Testament ethics. So much for why athletes should not cheat, and what they should pursue instead. The doping problems in sport raise another question: what is someone responsible to do when she becomes aware of others' cheating? This question extends beyond sport to daily life evils that are preventable if someone in our lives would just speak up once in a while.

  • The Good Book Blog

    Cheating in Sports and Life, Part One

    John McKinley — 

    Slowly, more top professional cyclists that were rivals of Lance Armstrong are mumbling confessions of the same carefully-worded sort that Lance released last January. Some have been coerced by teams or government inquiries (as with the handful of Americans who testified to their own doping as part of implicating Lance Armstrong). The latest is Jan Ullrich, the German cyclist who placed second to Lance three times in the Tour de France. Like many others, Ullrich used the same worn out excuse that “everybody was doing it,” and that his joining the “medical program” was just a way to play on a level field. What are we to think of these things?

  • ŷַ News

    ŷַ Alumnus and Former California Foster Youth to Champion Change in Nation’s Capitol

    Inglewood native Alain Datcher shares personal story to help shape child welfare law

    Jenna Bartlo — 

    Inglewood native Alain Datcher (’11) is one of 16 college students from across the nation who will spend the summer on Capitol Hill in Washington,...

  • The Good Book Blog

    A Primer on the New Perspective on Paul

    Kenneth Berding — 

    A couple years ago I was asked to lead a discussion for the Talbot School of Theology faculty on “The New Perspective on Paul.” Now, you should know up-front that (for the most part) I am not very positive about the overall approach that New Perspectivists take when they interpret the letters of Paul (esp. Galatians and Romans) and when they try to set those letters in a reconstructed first century Jewish theological context. But I also do not believe that it is right or wise for people to be dogmatic about topics that they don’t know very much about. So, to help you interact responsibly with the New Perspective, I want to revisit the lecture I did for the Talbot faculty try to help you understand the New Perspective on Paul so that you can critically weigh for yourself its merits and demerits.

  • ŷַ News

    Students Provided Opportunity with Nationally-Recognized Leadership Development Institute

    Twelve ŷַ students successfully graduate from the program

    Carissa Lehmkuhl — 

    Twelve ŷַ students graduated from the Millenium Momentum Foundation’s Leadership Development Institute (LDI) April 2013 — representing the...

  • ŷַ News

    Nearly 1,000 Students Received Degrees at ŷַ's Spring Commencement Ceremonies

    ŷַ celebrated the accomplishments of almost a thousand graduates during the Spring 2013 Commencement Ceremonies.

    HIlary Larkins — 

    On Friday, May 24, nearly 10,000 guests attended ŷַ's Commencement Ceremonies to celebrate the accomplishments of the Spring...

  • The Good Book Blog

    A few questions about the doctrine of Hell (2 of 4)

    John McKinley — 

    Following on my earlier post on the metaphorical language used for naming and describing the punishment of hell, this post explores the doctrine of degrees of punishment. The basic idea is that the Bible seems to say that all evildoers will suffer the same hell for their sins, but God's perfect justice means that worse criminals will suffer worse punishments for their crimes. This is not torture or exacting pain as somehow accompiishing something for God, as if God were a fiendish tormentor. But then what is it?

  • ŷַ Magazine

    In Print: Spring 2013

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Good Idea. Now What? by Charles T. Lee (M.A. ’99), Wiley Publishing, February 2012. Lee, CEO of Ideation Consultancy, offers systematic advice for...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    ŷַns Up Close: Spring 2013

    Brian Hall ('96), Academy Award-winning software creator

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    Brian Hall (’96) may not be a movie star, but the computer software he helped to develop has quickly become one — reaching such heights that it...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Where Are They Now?: Spring 2013

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    After becoming engaged her senior year and creating her own wedding invitations, Megan (Knight, ’08) Gonzalez saw an opportunity to make money...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    Alumni Files: Spring 2013

    A Visit to India

    Rick Bee — 

    I reached a bit of a milestone over ŷַ’s winter break when I completed my sixth medical mission trip to India within the past 10 years. The “...

  • ŷַ Magazine

    105 Reasons We Love ŷַ

    ŷַ Magazine Staff — 

    As ŷַ geared up to celebrate its 105th birthday in February, we at ŷַ Magazine figured: What better way to celebrate than with a...