The Unlikely Disciple: Review

     During his sophomore year, Kevin Roose, a 19-year old from Brown University met a group of college students from Liberty University, America’s largest conservative Christian college. Roose becomes so intrigued by these “evangelical Christians” that he decides to pack up his bags and spend a semester “abroad” at Liberty University. Coming from a secular Ivy League, adjusting to residential life at Liberty wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for Roose. He quickly realized following the “Liberty Way” boiled down to a long list of no’s: no swearing, no drinking, and absolutely no R-rated movies! In order to blend in with his classmates, Roose disciplined himself to strictly abide by Liberty’s student handbook. He purchased a self-help book entitled 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, plastered a Jesus fish onto the back of his car, and even joined Jerry Falwell’s choir at Thomas Road Baptist Church. After only a few weeks at Liberty, Roose was surprised to find himself surrounded by a group of Christian friends. He found that the longer he spend at Liberty, the more he began to actually enjoy “experimenting” with prayer, dating Liberty girls, and attending Bible studies with his hall-mates. The Unlikely Disciple provides a thought-provoking, hysterical account of a “sinner’s semester” at one of America’s most conservative colleges.