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A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Grand Central Publishing
April 2009
On Sale: March 26, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 044617842X
EAN: 9780446178426
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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