<![CDATA[The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University]]>

false <![CDATA[The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237095107m/3525894.jpg 3525894 3 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. 3567627 26 3 2009 The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University total:838|5:245|4:427|3:146|2:18|1:2| 838 3409 2012 300 4 3 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:20:52 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 02:27:42 -0800 2009
http://www.readingrants.org/2009/02/10/t...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Mar 31 13:20:28 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 13:26:58 -0700 2009 perezhilton.com the way I read this thing, i.e. obsessively. Let me just reiterate the storyline: a student at Brown asks his dean for a semester leave so he can go undercover at Liberty University and write about it. This ...more...]]> 2 9 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 09:11:19 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 18:06:08 -0700 2009 A Hope in the Unseen followed a poor, religious inner-city kid's struggles at Brown University. Now Brown U. is back with another hip-hop, flip-flop comedy. This time around, we get to see the hijinks of a Brown student going to a religious Southern school. And Kevin Roos...more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Apr 09 05:08:23 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 08:43:00 -0700 2009 The Year of Living Biblically, he took on a slave (unpaid intern). The slave was Kevin Roose. After visiting Thomas Road Baptist Church (sanctuary of Jerry Falwell) with Jacobs, Roose decided to take a semester off at Brown and enroll undercover at Liberty University (Ki...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 12:06:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 14:07:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 7 false false Wed Apr 22 19:37:59 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 19:40:02 -0700 2009 Well, I do know all the verses to Victory in Jesus
I do know more about tithing than my major,
and I laughed over this book, cried over this book,
and understood what he was trying to say.]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 17:47:56 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 17:49:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 07 10:19:29 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 11:06:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 12:43:24 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 13:01:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:39:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:46:56 -0700 2009
It was but it was also incredibly frustratin...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:01:37 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:10:46 -0700 2009
Quotes that made me think:

"One recent study showed that 51 percent of Americans don't know any evangelical Christians, eve...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 14 20:03:02 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 20:26:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 11:38:29 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 11:56:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:11:58 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:46:16 -0700 2009
By far, the best insight I got (which is only my opinion) is that even fundamentalists' beliefs are rational. Let me explain...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 07:06:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 08:33:17 -0700 2009
Based on that, one expects fish-out-of-water type hijinks, of which thi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:26:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:36:47 -0700 2009 1 (but I'll re-read, I'm sure) more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 22 07:24:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:48:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 13:07:39 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 00:55:26 -0700 2009 Society Without Religion, The Unlikely Disciple tells the story of a society with very different religious ideas than the society I live in. Kevin Roose, however, is not a professional ethnographer, but a confused 19-year-old kid, when he decides to "study abroad" at Liberty Universit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 22:31:45 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 04:12:37 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 12:57:37 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 06:01:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3525894