Informational flyers for parents (PDFs)
Guidebooks for school administrators (PDFs)
- The Good News Club: A Guidebook for School Administrators
- Religious Released-Time Programs: A Guidebook for School Administrators
Advice about religious flyers and literature in public schools
Advice about religious and freethought clubs in public schools
“Religious and Freethought Clubs in Public School”
An excellent book by an award-winning journalist
The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children
Websites
- Critical overview of the Good News Club curriculum: IntrinsicDignity.com
- Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF): CEFonline.com
Videos
- “Sophia Investigates the Good News Club” (36 minutes). Citizens investigate the Good News Club in their community, providing a broad overview.
- “The Good News Club: Exposing the Truth About So-Called Good News Clubs,” produced by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
- CEF teacher training video, Wordless Book training (42 minutes)
- CEF teacher training video (general, 3 min.)
- CEF teacher training video (general, 13 min.)
- Dr. R. Elisabeth Cornwell interviews journalist/author Katherine Stewart about the Good News Club.
- “The Dark Gospel of the Good News Club” (16 minutes). Critical overview.
- “The Good News Club: Lies and Intimidation.” Citizens challenge the Good News Club in their school.
- “How Religious Fundamentalism Threatens Oregon’s Public Schools.” Katherine Stewart presentation in Portland, June 2015.
U.S. groups protecting children from the Good News Club
- California: facebook.com/protectmontereycountychildren
- Indiana: Contact Center for Inquiry Indiana
- Maine: facebook.com/protectmainechildren
- New York: http://www.youngskeptics.net
- North Carolina: facebook.com/protecttrianglechildren
- Oregon: facebook.com/protectoregonchildren
Articles by Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club
- “Do Evangelical Kids’ Clubs Deserve Freedom of Speech in Public Schools?”
- “How evangelicals are making children their missionaries in public schools”
- “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”
- “The Lord’s Army Comes to America’s Public Schools”
- “Get the Church Out of America’s Kindergartens“
- “Reading, Writing, and Original Sin“
Articles by Valerie Tarico, psychologist/writer
- “Our Public Schools Their Mission Field”
- “Child Evangelism Fellowship Targets Portland Children for Summer Salvation. Locals Fights Back”
- “Don’t Want Pro-Genocide Bible Lessons in Your Public School? Fight Back! Here’s How.”
- “Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems”
Article by a former Good News Club member
“I Was Traumatized by Christian Dogma: I Won’t Do the Same to My Child”
Article about citizens who challenged a local Good News Club
“Good News Club Discovers It’s Harder to Intimidate Adults than Children”
A must-see Good News Club marketing plan
“Steps to Successfully Advertising Good News Clubs Regardless of the Restrictions”
Podcast
Katherine Stewart interview on “The Friendly Atheist”
Legal analysis and commentary
- Good News Club curriculum analysis, case law commentary and detailed model policies (PDF)
- Religious Clubs and Non-Secondary Schools (PDF)
- Good News Club v. Milford Central School opinion, concurrences and dissents
- Supreme Court decision Good News Club v. Milford Central School ACLU amicus brief (PDF)
