God's Harvard : a Christian college on a mission to save America / Hanna Rosin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosin, Hanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patrick Henry College.

College students--Religious life--Virginia--Martinsville.

College students.

College students--Virginia--Martinsville--Conduct of life.

Christian education--Virginia--Martinsville.

Christian education.

Community colleges--Virginia--Martinsville.

Community colleges.

Conduct of life.

College students--Religious life.

Virginia--Martinsville.

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]

Summary:

Since 2000, America' s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation' s capital. Most of them are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. And God' s Harvard grooms these students to be the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science, to wage the battle to take back a godless nation. Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half embedded at the college, following the students from the campus to the White House, Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other centers of influence. Her account captures this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Welcome, Surfer Ninjas and Knights 9

Chapter 2 Harvard for Homeschoolers 40

Chapter 3 "Elisa Muench, Republican, for Idaho's Senator. She Will Make a Difference." 73

Chapter 4 America Is a Christian Nation, Capital "C," Capital "N" 104

Chapter 5 Farahn's Attempt to Hide Her Midriff 125

Chapter 6 "This Is It! Go for Smiles! Go for Christ!" 151

Chapter 7 The Den of Sin 167

Chapter 8 From Humanzee to Liger: A Brief History of Evolution 183

Chapter 9 The Fifth Quadrant: Hollywood Finds God 205

Chapter 10 Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry 231

Chapter 11 Obey, All You Little Children 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296).

ISBN:

9780151012626

0151012628

OCLC:

123390950