The Good News Club The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children
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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, 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 thisand other forms of religious activity in public schoolslegal, 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.</DIV>
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1: The Good News Club Comes to Town......Page 18
2: All Part of the Plan......Page 46
3: A Wall of Separation......Page 76
4: The Originalists’ New Theory......Page 90
5: Little Red Church-House......Page 112
6: Thy Neighbor’s Children: The 4/14 Window......Page 136
7: Don’t Know Much About History: The Texas Textbook Wars......Page 158
8: Bible “Literacy” Wars......Page 182
9: Packaging Proselytizing as Education......Page 202
10: The Peer-to-Peer Evangelism Loophole......Page 224
11: Enlisting in the Army: How to Join the Good News Club......Page 236
12: If You Can’t Own It, Break It: The Plan to Undermine Public Education......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 266
Acknowledgments......Page 270
Notes......Page 274
Index......Page 284
About the Author......Page 300
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1: The Good News Club Comes to Town......Page 18
2: All Part of the Plan......Page 46
3: A Wall of Separation......Page 76
4: The Originalists’ New Theory......Page 90
5: Little Red Church-House......Page 112
6: Thy Neighbor’s Children: The 4/14 Window......Page 136
7: Don’t Know Much About History: The Texas Textbook Wars......Page 158
8: Bible “Literacy” Wars......Page 182
9: Packaging Proselytizing as Education......Page 202
10: The Peer-to-Peer Evangelism Loophole......Page 224
11: Enlisting in the Army: How to Join the Good News Club......Page 236
12: If You Can’t Own It, Break It: The Plan to Undermine Public Education......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 266
Acknowledgments......Page 270
Notes......Page 274
Index......Page 284
About the Author......Page 300
Listed on 18 October, 2024