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The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children (2012)

door Katherine Stewart

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In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, 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 false impression that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey across the nation to document the impact. As she makes chillingly clear in this journey through the history, politics, and landscape of this new culture war, the rapidly expanding network of Good News Clubs represents just one of a range of initiatives intended to insert conservative forms of evangelical Christianity into public schools--and into society at large. In the communities within which they occur, these initiatives often appear to be spontaneous and local events. But in fact they are organized, funded, coordinated, and guided at a national level by a small number of influential actors. Taken all together, they represent an important new strategy on the part of the Christian Right in its long-running aim to "take back America."--From publisher description.… (meer)
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I'm writing a review for the Women's Review of Books, so you'll have to wait to find out what I really thought of this book. But I'll give you a hint...it's a must read! OK, now you have to wait why I think that. http://www.wcwonline.org/womensreview
  roniweb | May 30, 2019 |
This is definitely a book worth reading, especially if you have kids or plan to have kids in the public school system or if you're just concerned about the way the future leaders of the country are educated. While some people might look at the book's cover and read the excerpt on the back and think this is a book that is against religion, it absolutely is not. This book is not written by and for atheists, it is written by a person who had children in the public school system and noticed something alarming and dug deeper and shared her findings with the rest of us. And boy did she uncover a big pile of something. I knew it was bad but I didn't realize it was this bad. ( )
  madam_razz | Jan 19, 2017 |
Outstanding. It should be placed in every public school in the country. Parents who want to keep their kids free from the contamination of fiercely committed Fundamentalist ideologues will find this valuable reading. ( )
  VGAHarris | Jan 19, 2015 |
A look at the phenomenon of churches invading schools and working to convert children to a particularly rigid view of Christianity under the guise of a club that gives candy to children based on how many of their friends they recruit. These clubs take advantage of a loophole in court decisions that allows the churches in as after-school club, and allows the children to pester, coax, or bully their friends who have a different viewpoint. The author writes in a not-quite-formal, accessible style, and includes her own experiences at her daughter's school. The only complaint is that some of the analysis is a bit superficial, and she makes the common mistake with the Scopes trial of assuming that evolution won and was returned to the schools after the case. This is a minor flaw, but since it does impact her analysis of the history of the Christian right movement into the schools, it loses her a half star. Highly recommended, even if you don't have children in the schools, since the goal is to make sure the next generation that makes laws for us all makes those laws by this particular version of their religion. ( )
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In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, 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 false impression that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey across the nation to document the impact. As she makes chillingly clear in this journey through the history, politics, and landscape of this new culture war, the rapidly expanding network of Good News Clubs represents just one of a range of initiatives intended to insert conservative forms of evangelical Christianity into public schools--and into society at large. In the communities within which they occur, these initiatives often appear to be spontaneous and local events. But in fact they are organized, funded, coordinated, and guided at a national level by a small number of influential actors. Taken all together, they represent an important new strategy on the part of the Christian Right in its long-running aim to "take back America."--From publisher description.

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