The Unlikely Disciple, (Paperback)

from Aerrin99

I opened this book out of simple curiosity. What /did/ a liberal college student from Brown think when confronted full-on with some of the most fundamentally conservative and literal evangelists around? I was desperate to know whether this book would be judgmental or soft-hearted, whether he woul...

from Bibliotropic

When I first found out that A J Jacobs's "slave" was writing a book of his own, I was intrigued, and decided there and then that I had to get my hands on it. I'm happy to say that it was a fantastic book, a truly inspiration look at crossing the culture divide between religious and secular, showi...

from phoenixcomet

What happens when a left wing Brown University student attends a semester at ultra-conservative right wing Liberty University, the founder of televangelist Jerry Falwell? The result is crises of different sorts. Overall, new author Kevin Roose successfully presents both the good and the bad of Li...

from ebnelson

Think Blue Like Jazz if Don Miller wasn't a Christian. Roose has so much heart. He's gracious and vulnerable, which makes him so enduring. But his transparency is coupled with wisdom beyond his years (or a phenomenal editor). This book is great reading for anyone with a connection with fundamenta...

from selkie_girl

Kevin Roose does something so unlikely that it floors his Brown classmates. He is going to go down to Lynchburg, Virginia to the Liberty University founded by the late Dr. Jerry Falwell to spend a semester there then to write a book about it. I heard about this book and being a Liberty University...