the unlikely disciple a sinner's semester at america's holiest university

Rooster seems to have some of the same longings. And I remember at times vaguely longing for the structure I left behind after I went off to college. I survived three Puritan Years in that place. Sounds to me like Rooster had the same rules to live with that I did. Hell, no women in the dorms, clothed or unclothed. It's about classes and professors and roommates but it's also about dirty movies behind locked doors about the guys eyeing a girl with a too-tight tee-shirt about those who sneak off-campus.Īnd the rules? No Beer Bong Week. Rooster turns out to be somewhat of a soft-soap, but Unlikely Disciple - and even Liberty U. How? Well keep the doors open play holy music on your stereo avoid the all-too lorky pages on the internet. There was a weekly seminar titled 'Everyman's Battle' on avoiding the sins of masturbation. There was singing in the choir at Falwell's home Thomas Road Baptist Church which he liked and there were his fellow classmates endless comments about 'fags' and 'queers,' which, he says, he didn't care for all that much. There were classes on the history of the Bible, which he enjoyed and on proselytizing, which he didn't.

he says that after his months there, he now finds comfort in prayer but he also found much of the same old same old. But instead he chose to go to an equally alien universe, there in Lynchburg, Virginia. He had a chance to join the Peace Corps, to go to Uganda, say. Like in room 220, just down the hall from his room. Brown is where you may find sex, dope and rock and roll, says the author. Still, Rooster's spring semester, going from Brown University to pristine Liberty might evoke some contrast. And there is a chance that Liberty University is not 'America's Holiest University.' Bob Jones U. Despite the subtitle, Kevin Roose - called by his Liberty University friends 'Rooster' - is hardly a sinner, at least not by my reading.

The unlikely disciple a sinner's semester at america's holiest university