The Good News Club (book)

The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children is a 2012 book by American journalist Katherine Stewart about the Good News Club (GNC), a Christian after-school program which primarily targets students between the ages of four and fourteen in elementary schools in the United States. Published through PublicAffairs, the book examines GNCs, their formal structure and social organization, their literary goals, and the effects of GNCs on schools and surrounding communities since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not exclude them in Good News Club v. Milford Central School.

The book's final chapter focus on an overarching imperative to "defund and ultimately eliminate" the public schools by the Christian evangelical movement, according to Stewart. She calls the public school system "one of the largest and most successful collective efforts in [American] history" in her conclusion. Reviewers praised the research of the book while stating her writing at times could be hyperbolic and calling the book advocacy journalism. John E. Tropman of the University of Michigan's School of Social Work suggested the book as a part of sociology of religion courses.