Improper personal contact (anything beyond hand-holding): 4 reprimands + $10 fine.

Possession and/or use of tobacco: 6 reprimands + $25 fine.

His field manual, a forty-six-page code of conduct called 'The Liberty Way,' governs every aspect of our lives and dispenses concrete punishments when we veer off course. It's a tongue-in-cheek name, but a fairly accurate one. He answered the call, and over the next thirty-six years, while organizing the Moral Majority, shepherding one of America's largest megachurches, and establishing himself as the father of the Religious Right, he found time to transform that Christian college into what it is today: the world's largest evangelical university, a ten thousand–student training ground for America's conservative Christian youth. Falwell felt God calling him to start a Christian college in his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia. Our chancellor, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, always tells us that prayer is the key to a productive Christian life. Put it this way: if prayers emitted light, you'd see us from space. Our God is a workhorse God, and as the Bible instructs, we petition him without ceasing.

At this school, we pray for everything: good grades, a winning football season, religious revival in America, chicken fingers in the dining hall. Any night of the week, a quick stroll through Liberty's campus would reveal hundreds of students in the same position, making the same kind of divine appeal. This is not a particularly unusual event. It's midnight at Liberty University, and I'm kneeling on the floor of my dorm room, praying. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University hide caption toggle caption

The unlikely disciple by kevin roose