Remembering Michael Longinow

Michael Longinow, age 50, died yesterday from an unexplained problem in his digestive system. Born August 23, 1960 to a Ukrainian father and a Mexican mother, Longinow was a very active child, and he had scars to prove it. As he grew up, he became more involved with the church and less with sports because he felt that sports were becoming his God. The summer before his freshman year of high school, Longinow rededicated his life to Christ. After high school, he attended Wheaton College in Illinois, University of Illinois for graduate school, where he met his wife, Robin Turley, whom he married in 1987, and  he went to the University of Kentucky for his doctorate in 1996. After graduate school in Illinois, he became a newspaper reporter, until he started teaching in 1989. His teaching career started at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, and ended teaching journalism at Biola University in La Mirada, California, a position he took in 2005. Longinow is survived by his three kids: Ben, a junior at Biola, Mat, a sophomore, and Sarah, a high school student of 17.