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THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE
A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
By Kevin Roose
Grand Central Publishing
336 pp | $24.99
In the Fall of 2007, Brown University sophomore Kevin Roose shocked friends and family by enrolling for the next semester at one of the nation's best known Bible schools--the jewel of televangelist Jerry Falwell's Christian empire, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. A classmate asked him: "A semester with no sex? And this is different how?"
A jest. Roose would be dropping not just south of the country's political fault line, but also into the bosom of fundamentalist dogma, where 10,000 undergraduate Christian soldiers in academic harness are marching as to war against the liberal foes and their sins of homosexuality, abortion, feminism, humanism, Hollywood smut, and general permissive decay. By comparison to Liberty's parietal control, he says, Brown had been only "a notch or two above Sodom and Gomorrah."
The author arrives in Lynchburg with a spirit of fellowship, seeking total immersion in his strict new...
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