#345 Exposing Biola’s Drift: What Parents Need to Know, with Dr. Krista Bontrager

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Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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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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