A friend sent me a link to this book review. I really want to read the book now. The article is really worth a read and I think the book will give non-Christians and skeptical(of far right Christian organizations) Christians like me, who have problems with Falwells school, a look at some of things about the place that are good.
Basically, a Brown University student enrolled at Liberty for a semester to go "undercover" to right a book about Liberty from the perspective of a secularist.
Here is the opening of the article.
Surprised by Love - Books & Culture.
Basically, a Brown University student enrolled at Liberty for a semester to go "undercover" to right a book about Liberty from the perspective of a secularist.
Here is the opening of the article.
Surprised by Love - Books & Culture.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University isn't the book its author, Kevin Roose, thought it would be. It's certainly not the book he pitched to his publisher as a left hook in the ongoing fisticuffs between secularists and believers. And it's not the book I anticipated when I first heard rumors among students at Liberty University, where I teach, that a young man from Brown University had come here and spent a semester undercover in order to write an expose on command central for one side in America's culture wars.
It's not the book it was supposed to be because, as it turns out, Liberty University wasn't what it was supposed to be.
This isn't to say that some of the worst stereotypes of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, the Bible Belt, and Christian higher education aren't reinforced by Roose's experience. They are. Nevertheless, Roose largely gets beyond the stereotypes and humanizes even those whose views he finds "reprehensible." And in the process, Roose gets a good dose of humanizing himself.
Comments