Like most college students, Kevin was eager for a semester abroad-a nice long break from all the beerpong, frat parties, gender-neutral bathrooms, cold pizza and mind-numbing sameness of life at Brown University, one of the most liberal colleges in the country and home to both a sizable chapter of t
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
β Scribed by Kevin Roose
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0446599409
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 </ST1:COUNTR...
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Prepare ye -- Come and see -- Stranger in a strange land -- O sing unto the Lord a new song -- Let us learn together what is good -- We all, like sheep, have gone astray -- Caught up together -- Troubled on every side, yet not distressed -- Whether ye be in the faith -- The workers are few -- Near i
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