![]() His mission was to dissect – not depart a forever-changed man. Instead, he enrolled as a transfer student at Liberty in an undercover effort to discern what makes these deeply religious students tick. So in the winter of 2007 Roose, then a sophomore at Brown University, opted out of the more traditional semester-abroad options. The focus there is always on God, who is, after all, the most-often-listed interest on the school’s Facebook page.įundamentalist Christians in America have always set themselves apart, and in so doing have piqued the nation’s interest. Not that Kevin Roose, a self-described agnostic, ever lost that fish-out-of-water feeling at Liberty University in Lynchburg Va., where the living is clean – cussing and kissing results in swift and severe fines – and students spend spring break in Daytona saving souls. But it required only 16 weeks at a fundamentalist Christian university to change an Ivy Leaguer from Brown. It took blinding light and God’s voice to convert the Apostle Paul. ![]()
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