#345 Exposing Biola’s Drift: What Parents Need to Know, with Dr. Krista Bontrager
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They spent $200,000 on their kids' education, and their kids don't, in some cases, no longer even communicate with them. |
| 0:11.2 | And because they've been disciples to believe that their parents are racist and homophobes and all kinds of stuff in the name of Jesus. |
| 0:18.8 | I can't put these people on a podcast. They are reeling, |
| 0:22.7 | they are trying to just figure out what in the world happened to break up their family. |
| 0:40.7 | Well, hey everyone. welcome to the show. |
| 0:42.4 | This is the Elisa Childers podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Elisa Childers. |
| 0:48.7 | And today I'm going to be talking with my good friend, Krista Bontrager, who you may know as Theology Mom. |
| 0:50.1 | You may know her as one half of the Center for Biblical Unity. And by the wonderful book that she co-wrote with Monique Dusson called Walking in Unity that I had the honor and privilege of writing the forward for. |
| 1:02.5 | But we're not going to be talking about any of that today. |
| 1:05.3 | We're going to be talking all about Biola. |
| 1:07.9 | So to catch everybody up with what has been going on several months ago, I made an |
| 1:13.1 | offhanded comment in one of the episodes that I was doing with, I believe it was Dr. Everett Piper, |
| 1:18.0 | about the progressive drift in many of our colleges and institutions, about how I could no longer |
| 1:23.8 | recommend Biola University as a place that Christian parents could send their kids to. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, I didn't expect the amount of questions I received after saying that. |
| 1:33.8 | I got lots of emails, people on social media asking me to comment a little bit more and |
| 1:38.3 | explain why I had said that. |
| 1:40.0 | So I decided to go ahead and dig down a little bit into it. |
| 1:43.5 | And I tweeted out just some of the public policies that were available at the time regarding |
| 1:47.8 | Biola, which really sparked a lot of people to realize for the first time that things may not |
| 1:54.3 | be exactly what they were expecting at Biola. |
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