The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children
| Author | Katherine Stewart |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Good News Club; separation of church and state |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Publication date | January 24, 2012 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-1-61039-050-7 |
The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children is a book by American journalist Katherine Stewart about the Good News Club (GNC). Published through PublicAffairs in 2012, the book examines the GNC, its formal structure and social organization, its literary goals, and the effects of GNCs on schools and surrounding communities since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not exclude them in a lawsuit involving GNC. The book's final chapter focus on an overarching imperative to "defund and ultimately eliminate" the public schools by the Christian evangelical movement, according to Stewart. She calls the public school system "one of the largest and most successful collective efforts in [American] history" in her conclusion.
Reviewers praised the research of the book while stating her writing at times could be hyperbolic and calling the book advocacy journalism. John E. Tropman of the University of Michigan's School of Social Work suggested the book as a part of sociology of religion courses.