The Rebelution is a
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organization 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
Random House. 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
MSNBC,
CNN,
NPR, and in ''
The New York Times''. They were supporters of
the campaign of
Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is an American politician, Baptist minister, and political commentator who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomina ...
. Their father is
Gregg Harris
Gregg Eugene Harris (born November 23, 1952, in Dayton, OH) was a figure in the Christian homeschooling movement from 1981 through the mid-1990s and later served as a teaching elder at Gresham Household of Faith, which was an experiment in local ...
, a figure in the Christian
homeschooling
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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
survey 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
Shaunti Feldhahn
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,
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., and
C. J. Mahaney
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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.
See also
* ''
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations''
References
External links
*
The Rebelutionat
Facebook
Interview with Alex and Brett Harrisat ''ChristianBook.com''
HICKS: Teens not with 'stupid'from ''
The Washington Times''
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