![]() Jerry Falwell (the founder of the Moral Majority group)). ![]() ![]() I will admit to knowing next to nothing about Liberty University before this book (it was started by Rev. The Unlikely Disciple is well-written and moves quite quickly (although I found the timeline to be somewhat jumpy and slightly non-chronological) it definitely has that journalistic/feature style to it that makes for easy reading. The book basically chronicles his semester there – the classes he takes, the people he meets, the evangelizing trip to Daytona Beach during spring break he goes on, and the surprises and non-surprises he encounters. Of course, Brown is one of the most liberal, secular schools in the country, and Liberty is an extremely conservative Baptist school, so the change is a big one for Roose. ![]() I tend to be interested in books with unusual or unlikely premises, so this one, about Kevin Roose, a Brown student who decided to transfer to Liberty for one semester, was immediately intriguing to me. 8 of 10: The Unlikely Disciple, about a non-religious student’s semester at a religious university, easily kept me reading, but I couldn’t quite fall in love with it for a variety of reasons. ![]()
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