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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Undercover at an Evangelical University



From NPR

Taking a semester off to travel and focus on writing isn't that unusual for a student at Brown University. But instead of studying comparative literature in Europe, Kevin Roose decided to go to Lynchburg, Va., and enroll at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Roose passed himself off as an evangelical Christian to blend in with students at the school founded by the late Moral Majority leader. The experience led to a book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University.

Roose, the product of the "ultimate, secular, liberal upbringing," got the idea to go undercover after meeting a group of Liberty students while a freshman at Brown. "I had never really come into contact with conservative Christian culture," he says. "It became clear very quickly that we had almost no way to communicate with each other."

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1 comment:

Heidi said...

What a cool story of deception turned on its head, and arighted for the Lord's work!

Through the intervention of God himself, his generous friends at Liberty U, and the very discerning, timeless encouragement of Oswald Chambers -- Kevin can be a valuable witness for Jesus Christ in the secular world.

See Oswald Chambers' journal entry for today @ myutmost.org.

Awesome stuff - thanks for posting!