the unlikely disciple a sinner's semester at america's holiest university

I've heard the name bandied around, but I didn't realize it was a school for evangelicals. I don't think I actually fully understand what Liberty College was before picking up UNLIKELY DISCIPLE. Even though I'm not religious at all, I really enjoy undercover journalism and there was something titillating about a Quaker from a liberal family going to one of the most conservative religious colleges in secret.

I don't remember where I heard about this book- NPR, probably. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest He meets pastors' kids, closet doubters, Christian rebels, and conducts what would be the last print interview of Rev. His journey takes him from an evangelical hip-hop concert to a spring break mission trip to Daytona Beach (where he learns to preach the gospel to partying coeds). Hoping to connect with his evangelical peers, Roose decides to enroll at Liberty as a new transfer student, chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front lines of America's culture war. Liberty's ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101 and follow a forty-six-page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. 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. 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. As a sophomore at Brown University, he spent his days fitting right in with Brown's free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body.

Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. The hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking memoir of a college student's semester at Liberty University, the 'Bible Boot Camp' for young evangelicals, that will inspire believers and nonbelievers alike.

The unlikely disciple a sinner's semester at america's holiest university