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The Unlikely Disciple - A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (Paperback)
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The Unlikely Disciple - A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University (Paperback)
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No drinking.
No smoking.
No cursing.
No dancing.
No R-rated movies.
Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. As a sophomore at
Brown University, he spent his days drinking fair-trade coffee,
singing in an a cappella group, and fitting right in with Brown's
free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. But when Roose leaves
his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at Liberty University,
a conservative Baptist school in Lynchburg, Virginia, obedience is
no longer optional.
Liberty is the late Reverend Jerry Falwell's "Bible Boot Camp" for
young evangelicals, his training ground for the next generation of
America's Religious Right. Liberty's ten thousand undergraduates
take courses like Evangelism 101, hear from guest speakers like
Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, and follow a forty-six-page code of
conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Hoping
to connect with his evangelical peers, Roose decides to enroll at
Liberty as a new transfer student, leaping across the God Divide
and chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front
lines of America's culture war.
His journey takes him from an evangelical hip-hop concert to choir
practice at Falwell's legendary Thomas Road Baptist Church. He
experiments with prayer, participates in a spring break mission
trip to Daytona Beach (where he learns to preach the gospel to
partying coeds), and pays a visit to Every Man's Battle, an
on-campus support group for chronic masturbators. He meets pastors'
kids, closet doubters, Christian rebels, and conducts what would be
the last print interview of Rev. Falwell's life.
Hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking, THE
UNLIKELY DISCIPLE will inspire and entertain believers and
nonbelievers alike.
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