At Liberty, students (who call themselves "Champions for Christ") take classes like Introduction to Youth Ministry and Evangelism 101. Jerry Falwell's proudest accomplishment - a 10,000-student conservative Christian training ground. But rather than brush the Liberty students off, Roose decided to do something much bolder: he became one of them. 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. 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. As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right.
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