<strong>No drinking.<br>No smoking.<br>No cursing.</strong><br><b>No dancing.</b><br><b>No R-rated movies.<br></b><br>Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like these. As a sophomore at <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Brown </ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, he spent his days drinking fair-trade coffee, singing in an a cappella group, and fitting right in with Brown's free-spirited, ultra-liberal student body. But when Roose leaves his Ivy League confines to spend a semester at <ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Liberty </ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE>, a conservative Baptist school in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Lynchburg</ST1:CITY>, <ST1:STATE w:st="on">Virginia</ST1:STATE></ST1:PLACE>, obedience is no longer optional.<br><br><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Liberty</ST1:CITY> is the late Reverend Jerry Falwell's "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, his training ground for the next generation of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">America</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>'s Religious Right. <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Liberty</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>'s ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101, hear from guest speakers like Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, and follow a forty-six-page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Hoping to connect with his evangelical peers, Roose decides to enroll at <ST1:CITY w:st="on">Liberty</ST1:CITY> as a new transfer student, leaping across the God Divide and chronicling his adventures in this daring report from the front lines of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">America</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>'s culture war.<br><br>His journey takes him from an evangelical hip-hop concert to choir practice at Falwell's legendary <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Thomas </ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Road </ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Baptist </ST1:PLACENAME><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">Church</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>. He experiments with prayer, participates in a spring break mission trip to <ST1:CITY w:st="on">Daytona Beach</ST1:CITY> (where he learns to preach the gospel to partying coeds), and pays a visit to Every Man's <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Battle</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>, an on-campus support group for chronic masturbators. He meets pastors' kids, closet doubters, Christian rebels, and conducts what would be the last print interview of Rev. Falwell's life. <br><br>Hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking, THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE will inspire and entertain believers and nonbelievers alike.