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Formation | August 2005 |
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Type | NGO |
Purpose | Youth organization |
Leader | Alex and Brett Harris |
Website | TheRebelution.com |
The Rebelution is a Christian ministry/organization directed at youth, [1] 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.
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. [2]
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. The Rebelution website has been closed to further submissions since August 2024. [3]
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. [4] [5] Their father is Gregg Harris, a figure in the Christian homeschooling movement. Alex graduated from Harvard Law School, and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. [6] In 2017, Brett co-founded the Young Writers Workshop [7] with Jaquelle Crowe (now Jaquelle Ferris), an online membership-based workshop for young Christian aspiring writers. [8]
The Modesty Survey was an anonymous survey aimed at Christian teenagers, gathering quantitative and qualitative answers of what Christian boys consider to be immodesty. [9] Hundreds of Christian females submitted questions to the 148-question survey and over 1,500 Christian males participated. [10] It has been endorsed by Shaunti Feldhahn, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., and C. J. Mahaney, among others. [11] Some groups criticized the survey for treating modesty as something that pertains only to girls, or as something that men get to define. [12]