The Rebelution

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The Rebelution
FormationAugust 2005
Type NGO
Purpose Youth organization
LeaderAlex 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.

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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. [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

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

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Teens: Don't Be Lazy". National Public Radio . May 23, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Rebels With A Cause". Breakaway Magazine. September 2007. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  3. ↑ Harris, Brett (2024-07-29). "A Statement From Our Co-Founder: The End of a Chapter, But Not The End". The Rebelution. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  4. ↑ "Young Evangelicals Find a Candidate in Huckabee". National Public Radio . January 18, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  5. ↑ Stirlan, Sarah Lai (January 15, 2009). "Huckabee's Secret Weapon: Evangelical Twin Teens With Internet". Wired . Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  6. ↑ "Life After Law School". Veritas. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
  7. ↑ The young writer .
  8. ↑ "Young Writers Workshop" . Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Modesty Survey". The Rebelution. Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
  10. ↑ Bridger, Haley (January 30, 2008). "A dress for a novel occasion". Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle. Archived from the original on February 7, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Modesty Survey Endorsements". The Rebelution. Retrieved January 29, 2009.
  12. ↑ "Guys on Immodesty: Lust and the Violence of Women's Bodies". Sociological Images. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
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