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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.
Winner of the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the Year First Place
Winner of the Religion Newswriters Association's Non-fiction
Religion Book of the Year The Jesus People movement was a unique
combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical
Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of
1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like
wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle,
Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way
into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a
huge new following among evangelical church youth, who
enthusiastically adopted the Jesus People persona as their own.
Within a few years, however, the movement disappeared and was
largely forgotten by everyone but those who had filled its ranks.
God's Forever Family argues that the Jesus People movement was one
of the most important American religious movements of the second
half of the 20th-century. Not only do such new and burgeoning
evangelical groups as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard trace back to
the Jesus People, but the movement paved the way for the huge
Contemporary Christian Music industry and the rise of "Praise
Music" in the nation's churches. More significantly, it
revolutionized evangelicals' relationship with youth and popular
culture. Larry Eskridge makes the case that the Jesus People
movement not only helped create a resurgent evangelicalism but must
be considered one of the formative powers that shaped American
youth in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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