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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 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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<p>Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement <br> In The Good News Club, Katherine Stewart unveils a world of stealth ideological warfare, where public schools undergo forced conversions into evangelical churches, other people's children are missionaries' most important 'harvest field, ' and biblical literalism is served with free candy and pizza after school. With deep reporting and a keen sense of the larger picture, the stories in this book demonstrate how far-right activists have co-opted the principle of tolerance to advance an exclusionary agenda. <p> Kirkus review in January 1 issue<br> Solid reporting... [A}compelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon. <p>Michelle Goldberg, author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction <br> Even those well-versed in the religious right's attempt to Christianize American institutions will likely be shocked by The Good News Club. Katherine Stewart's book about the fundamentalist assault on public education is lucid, alarming, and very important. <p>Sarah Posner, senior editor, Religion Dispatches <br> Katherine Stewart's riveting investigation takes us inside the world of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, a sprawling organization that aims not just to evangelize America's schoolchildren, but with the help of lawyers and policymakers, to dismantle the separation of church and state. From the playground to the courtroom, Stewart exposes how, despite roiling communities and pitting neighbors against each other, their persistence has paid off, altering the relationship between public schools and religion. <p>Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of education and history, New York University, and author of Whose America: Culture Wars in the Public Schools <br> Do you think that our state-sponsored schools are free from religious indoctrination? If so, think again. As Katherine Stewart shows, evangelical organizations have cle

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

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