Since 1981, God's World News has been helping children to understand and interpret the world around them. This fall many families have packed a son or daughter off to college for the first time. The immediate work of parenting appears to be done, and one ought to be rejoicing for having got them out the door with enough money for the cafeteria and enough equipment to start a mixing studio. What they leave behind are more reasons to trust God than ever before. One year our oldest daughter's roommate became the headline for every call home.
Most people have a horrifying roommate story to tell.
I have serenely listened to them. I've even laughed. One friend tells how he left his lovely, sheltered Southern Baptist home, was packed off to Tulane University, and met his first roommate in the dorm. The roommate wasn't there to study, but to buy, sell, and use drugs. With remarkable energy, he supplemented life with drinking and entertaining women.