The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children
by Katherine Stewart
Recommended by Richard Dawkins
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Katherine Stewart combines first-person parenting narrative with on-site reporting to trace how the Good News Club set up inside her children's public elementary school and the conflicts that followed. The book's useful parts are scene-level reporting: recruitment conversations, PTA sparks, and concrete moments that show how religious outreach plays out in shared school spaces. It takes a clearly critical, advocacy-leaning stance rather than offering dispassionate legal theory, so readers seeking evenhanded perspectives may find the approach selective. Repetition of similar anecdotes can feel wearing by midbook.
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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 afterschool program of "Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christiani...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Spirituality, and Politics.
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Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
“Read Katherine Stewart's eyeopening book on The Good News Club and be horrified by what Supreme Court allowed.”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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