The Rebelution is a

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directed at youth, describing itself as "a teenage rebellion against low expectations." It was founded in August 2005 by twin brothers Alex and Brett Harris, younger brothers of best-selling author and former pastor, Joshua Harris.

About

At age 16, Alex and Brett started a blog called ''The Rebelution''. Since then, the Rebelution movement has grown to include a website and international speaking tour. Expanding on the topic of the blog, the Harris brothers have published two books for Christian teenagers, '' Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations'' (2008) and ''Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are'' (2010) with WaterBrook Multnomah, a division of

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. The Rebelution Tour, a series of one-day conferences for teens and parents, took place every summer from 2007 to 2011.

Alex and Brett Harris

Alex and Brett Harris have been featured nationally on

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''. They were supporters of the campaign of

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. Their father is Gregg Harris, a figure in the Christian

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movement. Alex graduated from Harvard Law School, and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. In 2017, Brett co-founded the Young Writers Workshop with Jaquelyn Crowe, an online membership based workshop for young Christian aspiring writers.

''The Modesty Survey''

''The Modesty Survey'' was an anonymous

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aimed at Christian teenagers, gathering quantitative and qualitative answers of what Christian boys consider to be immodesty. Hundreds of Christian females submitted questions to the 148-question survey and over 1,500 Christian males participated. It has been endorsed by

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, among others. Some groups criticized the survey for treating modesty as something that pertains only to girls, or as something that men get to define.

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Interview with Alex and Brett Harris
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About

Alex and Brett Harris

''The Modesty Survey''

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