**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-spir
The unlikely disciple: a sinner's semester at america's holiest university
โ Scribed by Liberty University.;Liberty University;Roose, Kevin
- Publisher
- Grand Central Pub
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, NY, Virginia--Lynchburg.
- ISBN
- 0446599409
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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 in their mouth, but far from their mind -- The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly -- There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed -- I made a covenant with my eyes -- Give us aid against the enemy -- One king shall be king to them all -- Test me, O Lord, and try me -- Beauty for ashes-- Epilogue.;Recounts the author's semester investigating Liberty University, the late Jerry Falwell's fundamentalist evangelical training college, describing how he and his classmates were instructed in the ways of strict biblical literalism.
โฆ Subjects
Virginia -- Lynchburg
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