THE GENESIS

Alex and I are currently big pushing the RECAPTURE campaign because we are running for AS President and Vice President, but the ideas behind it have a much older origin.

Last summer Alex and I collaborated on the documentary project “Quoth the Raven,” a film about one man’s struggle with faith, Christ, and Christianity. This experience brought us into many discussions about the role of faith in today’s society. It was much to my excitement that I had at last found another who shared my views on what the Church was doing right and where the Church could improve.

January found Alex and I at Denny’s, having a midnight discussion about our vision for Christianity at large and the similarities we found at Biola. During the course of our conversation, we realized how strategic Biola is for the vision of RECAPTURE—the University is a microcosm of Christianity; the problems Biola faces are the same that the Church as a whole faces, and the steps of RECAPTURE for each entity echo each other.

It was then that Alex and I decided that the proper thing to do would be to take the enormity of the vision and begin at Biola, running for the AS Presidency. The specifics which we have to chosen to advocate spring out of the widespread vision of RECAPTURE—being a forward-thinking global center for Christian thought and action.

Thus when we say we want to improve internet at Biola, we are not merely complaining about perceived inadequacy of delivery of a felt need, but we are advocating the proper equipment of the current generation of Biolans to RECAPTURE our culture. The same idea informs our stance on mail service, food service, the endowment, the NCAA, the facilities, and everything else we have chosen to stand for.

Each of these is just a tiny portion of the grand vision of RECAPTURE; though the details may seem mundane, they are a series of simple and strategic elements of a vision that will forever shake the way the world turns.