The unlikely disciple

a sinner's semester at America's holiest university

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The unlikely disciple

a sinner's semester at America's holiest university

1st ed.
  • 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
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  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

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. Ebook exclusive: Bonus quiz

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Grand Central Pub.
Language
English
Pages
324

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Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Unlikely Disciple
2009, Grand Central Publishing
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The unlikely disciple: a sinner's semester at America's holiest university
2009, Grand Central Pub.
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
378.755/671
Library of Congress
LD3071.L33 R66 2009, LD3071.L33R66 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22514054M
Internet Archive
unlikelydisciple00roos_0
ISBN 10
044617842X
ISBN 13
9780446178426
LCCN
2008037866
OCLC/WorldCat
225870182
Library Thing
6244190
Goodreads
3525894

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