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

Kathryn Joyce, author of "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement" "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.""Kirkus" review in January 1 issue"Solid reporting... [A}compelling investigative journalism about an undercovered phenomenon."Michelle Goldberg, author of "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" and "The Means of Reproduction""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."Sarah Posner, senior editor, "Religion Dispatches""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."Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of education and history, New York University, and author of "Whose America: Culture Wars in the Public Schools" "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