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Is Your Child's College Education Worth Teen Mania trouble | South By Southwest mania May 3, 2014 Coat of many dollars Is your child’s college education worth it? plus A 2014 primaries primer From Pearls to peril MS_HCReformAd2_World9.21.13.indd 1 8/20/13 1:10:21 PM Untitled-7 2 4/14/14 9:39 AM Contents , / , 34 Salt and light on campus Christian colleges and universities feel the pressure to prove that the education they off er is worth the heavy costs 42 To train up a Pharisee Michael and Debi Pearl’s method of discipline has many advocates, but critics say it lacks the gospel 46 Management mania Christian youth organization struggles to survive fi nancial turmoil 5 News 50 Life (and death) at 16 Quotables South By Southwest 18 Quick Takes Tragedy at fast-growing festival provokes public soul-searching and questions for other American mega- festivals. Are some becoming victims of their success? 23 Movies & TV 26 Books 54 Rebels from the right 28 Q&A A small group of tea party upstarts is taking on establishment—and 30 Music very well-funded—Senate Republicans in primaries this summer 23 : 59 Lifestyle 61 Technology 62 Science 63 Houses of God 50 64 Sports 65 Religion 54 3 Joel Belz 20 Janie B. Cheaney 32 Mindy Belz 67 Mailbag 71 Andrée Seu Peterson 72 Marvin Olasky WORLD (ISSN -X) (USPS -) is published biweekly ( issues) for . per year by God’s World Publications, (no mail) All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC ; () -. Periodical postage paid at Asheville, NC,NC, and additional mailing offi ces. Printed in the USA.USA. Reproduction in whole or in part without 59 written permission is prohibited. © WORLD News Group. All rights reserved. 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(outside the United States) Monday-Friday (except holidays), a.m.- p.m. ET WORLD, PO Box , Asheville, NC - , , CREDIT .. / .. or [email protected] WORLD occasionally rents subscriber names to carefully screened, like-minded organizations. If you would prefer not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on our list. 9 JOEL.indd 2 4/14/14 9:43 AM Joel Belz Silent submission Why are so many Christians so scared of the doctrine of creation? I as there are massive throwbacks to simplistic thinking. I can never forget mudslides in Washington, earthquakes in Chile, the encounter I had some time back with a woman and droughts in the Central Valley of California, next ahead of me in line at the bank. We were >> we’re all consigned to keep paying attention to watching a cat just outside the window, crouched yet another mini-disaster: e incessant chatter of beneath a bush and eyeing a bird above her as only a newscasters who used to blame all this on Mother feline can. “I have two cats,” the woman told me. “But Nature, and now are bold instead to hold climate I don’t let them play with birds. Mice, voles, shrews— change responsible. For serious Christians, though, OK. ey can gobble them up to their hearts’ content. such references should remind us of the unusual But no birds. Can you believe some people get a thrill opportunities such events give us for saying straight- out of watching a cat catch and eat a bird?” forwardly that the doctrine of creation matters. Well, no, I can’t—unless maybe it’s a lion in Kenya e problem is, as I’ve argued here before, that so on the prowl for a buzzard. But I was puzzled then, few Christians really believe that anymore. ey and have been ever since, at the woman’s double can’t any longer say the word “creation” with con- standard. “Do you suppose,” I asked her, “that God viction or gumption. For a generation or more now, built that into His creation—that He planned that we evangelicals have increasingly swallowed the line would put a higher value on canaries than we do on that what we believe about origins isn’t all that dif- mice? Or is that something we came up with on our ferent from what everyone else believes—except that own?” e woman responded with a disdainfully we’re careful faithfully but lamely to add that God blank stare, and turned ever so deliberately to end controls the process. Leading evangelical colleges the conversation. I had, of course, broken a profound social taboo. I had allowed religion to contaminate a conversation that had been focused on secular issues. at’s why so many folks get so annoyed when the ques- tion is raised about the possibility that the Creator of the universe also occasionally rattles parts of that universe a bit—as he did in northern Chile last month. “Leave God out of this,” they insist. e big problem now, though, isn’t that those “bad” people out there—the academ- ics, the scientists, the big media people, and the people who run national parks and museums—leave God out of the discussion. e big problem more and more is that those of us who profess to be believers have quietly but effi ciently persuade thousands of students to such a large extent joined them in their silence. So that theistic evolution is a more sophisticated and theoretically, we are still creationists. But practically less embarrassing explanation of origins than what speaking, we don’t let our allegiance to that great we learned as beginners in Sunday school. ose truth aff ect us much in everyday life. We’ve become who hold to any form of fi at creation are regularly scared to talk out loud, at least in public company. made to feel as if they should also be speaking With His magnifi cent creation, and with the Elizabethan English. exercise of His incredible providence in that cre- But these days it’s become even more diffi cult ation, God gives us countless opportunities to wit- than that. Now even those who speak in tones of ness to His greatness. Even when we’re reluctant to theistic evolution, or others who are so restrained bring up the subject, He does! 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