The Good News Club: The Religious Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children - Softcover

Stewart, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610392191 ISBN 13: 9781610392198

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2017

Synopsis

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their unchurched" peers, all the while promoting the natural but false impression among the children that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this,and other forms of religious activity in public schools,legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey to dozens of cities and towns across the nation to document the impact. In this book she demonstrates that there is more religion in America's public schools today than there has been for the past 100 years. The movement driving this agenda is stealthy. It is aggressive. It has our children in its sights. And its ultimate aim is to destroy the system of public education as we know it.

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About the Author

Katherine Stewart has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, and Religion Dispatches. She lives with her family in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610392191
• ISBN 13: 9781610392198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305