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The Unlikely Disciple : A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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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. 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 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 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, chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front lines of America's culture war. His journey takes him from an ev

Who reads The Unlikely Disciple : A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Kevin Roose
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing (NY/Boston)
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780446599405
Category
religious
Subjects
Memoir, Christian, Fiction
Rating
3.96 / 5 (9,820 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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