The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner s Semester At America s Holiest University Online
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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner s Semester at America s Holiest University
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Kevin Roose
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn t have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown s sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter with a group of students from Liberty University, a conservative Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia, he found himself staring across a massive culture gap. But rather than brush the Liberty students off, Roose decided to do something much bolder: he became one of them.
Liberty University is the late Rev. Jerry Falwell s proudest accomplishment – a 10,000-student conservative Christian training ground. At Liberty, students (who call themselves Champions for Christ ) take classes like Introduction to Youth Ministry and Evangelism 101. They hear from guest speakers like Mike Huckabee and Karl Rove, they pray before every class, and they follow a 46-page code of conduct called The Liberty Way that prohibits drinking, smoking, R-rated movies, contact with the opposite sex, and witchcraft. Armed with an open mind and a reporter s notebook, Roose dives into life at Bible Boot Camp with the goal of connecting with his evangelical peers by experiencing their world first-hand.
Roose s semester at Liberty takes him to church, class, and choir practice at Rev. Falwell s Thomas Road Baptist Church. He visits a support group for recovering masturbation addicts, goes to an evangelical hip-hop concert, and participates in a spring break mission trip to Daytona Beach, where he learns how to convert bar-hopping co-eds to Christianity. Roose struggles with his own faith throughout, and in a twist that could only have been engineered by a higher power, he conducts what would turn out to be the last in-depth interview of Rev. Falwell s life. Hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking, Roose s embedded report from the front lines of the culture war will inspire and entertain believers and non-believers alike.
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Liberty University is the late Rev. Jerry Falwell s proudest accomplishment – a 10,000-student conservative Christian training ground. At Liberty, students (who call themselves Champions for Christ ) take classes like Introduction to Youth Ministry and Evangelism 101. They hear from guest speakers like Mike Huckabee and Karl Rove, they pray before every class, and they follow a 46-page code of conduct called The Liberty Way that prohibits drinking, smoking, R-rated movies, contact with the opposite sex, and witchcraft. Armed with an open mind and a reporter s notebook, Roose dives into life at Bible Boot Camp with the goal of connecting with his evangelical peers by experiencing their world first-hand.
Roose s semester at Liberty takes him to church, class, and choir practice at Rev. Falwell s Thomas Road Baptist Church. He visits a support group for recovering masturbation addicts, goes to an evangelical hip-hop concert, and participates in a spring break mission trip to Daytona Beach, where he learns how to convert bar-hopping co-eds to Christianity. Roose struggles with his own faith throughout, and in a twist that could only have been engineered by a higher power, he conducts what would turn out to be the last in-depth interview of Rev. Falwell s life. Hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking, Roose s embedded report from the front lines of the culture war will inspire and entertain believers and non-believers alike.
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