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as A Sophomore At Brown University, Kevin Roose Didn't Have Much Contact With The Religious Right. Raised In A Secular Home By Staunchly Liberal Parents, He Fit Right In With Brown's Sweatshop-protesting, Fair-trade Coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent Student Body. So When He Had A Chance Encounter With A Group Of Students From Liberty University, A Conservative Baptist University In Lynchburg, Virginia, He Found Himself Staring Across A Massive Culture Gap. But Rather Than Brush The Liberty Students Off, Roose Decided To Do Something Much Bolder: He Became One Of Them.liberty University Is The Late Rev. Jerry Falwell's Proudest Accomplishment — A 10,000-student Conservative Christian Training Ground. At Liberty, Students (who Call Themselves Champions For Christ) Take Classes Like Introduction To Youth Ministry And Evangelism 101. They Hear From Guest Speakers Like Mike Huckabee And Karl Rove, They Pray Before Every Class, And They Follow A 46-page Code Of Conduct... the New York Times - Blake Wilson roose Has A Dry, Age-appropriate Sense Of Humor, But He Carefully Avoids Any Snark…roose's Amateur Ethnography Is Most Useful Not For Its Quick Glosses Of Political And Doctrinal Issues, But For Its Vivid, Sunny And Skeptical Portrait Of Life Among The Saved.
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