The Rebelution#Alex and Brett Harris

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The Rebelution is a Christian ministry/organization directed at youth,{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90759371 |title=Teens: Don't Be Lazy |date=May 23, 2008 |work=National Public Radio |accessdate=January 20, 2009}} 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.{{cite web|url= http://www.breakawaymag.com/alltherest/a000000600.cfm |title= Rebels With A Cause |date= September 2007 |work= Breakaway Magazine |accessdate= January 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081120012132/http://www.breakawaymag.com/alltherest/a000000600.cfm |archivedate= November 20, 2008}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Brett |date=2024-07-29 |title=A Statement From Our Co-Founder: The End of a Chapter, But Not The End |url=https://www.therebelution.com/blog/2024/07/a-statement-from-our-co-founder-the-end-of-a-chapter-but-not-the-end/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=The Rebelution |language=en-US}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18211975 |title=Young Evangelicals Find a Candidate in Huckabee |date= January 18, 2008 |work= National Public Radio |accessdate=January 20, 2009}}{{cite web |url= https://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/01/hucks_army |title=Huckabee's Secret Weapon: Evangelical Twin Teens With Internet |last=Stirlan |first= Sarah Lai |date=January 15, 2009 |work= Wired |accessdate=January 20, 2009}} 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.{{cite web |url= http://www.veritas.org/life-law-school/ |title=Life After Law School |accessdate=November 9, 2017 | work = Veritas}} In 2017, Brett co-founded the Young Writers Workshop{{Citation | url = http://theyoungwriter.com/ | title = The young writer}}. with Jaquelle Crowe (now Jaquelle Ferris), an online membership-based workshop for young Christian aspiring writers.{{cite web |url=http://dohardthings.com/youngwritersworkshop |title=Young Writers Workshop |accessdate=December 16, 2017}}

''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.{{cite web|url=http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey/ |title=The Modesty Survey |work=The Rebelution |accessdate=January 29, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129185312/http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey/ |archivedate=January 29, 2009 }} Hundreds of Christian females submitted questions to the 148-question survey and over 1,500 Christian males participated.{{cite web|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/hamilton/news/x469088749 |title=A dress for a novel occasion |last=Bridger |first=Haley |work=Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle |date=January 30, 2008 |accessdate=January 29, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207071858/http://www.wickedlocal.com/hamilton/news/x469088749 |archivedate=February 7, 2008 }} It has been endorsed by Shaunti Feldhahn, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., and C. J. Mahaney, among others.{{cite web |url=http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey/endorse.html |title=Modesty Survey Endorsements |work=The Rebelution |accessdate=January 29, 2009}} Some groups criticized the survey for treating modesty as something that pertains only to girls, or as something that men get to define.{{cite web |url=http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/07/27/guys-on-immodesty-lust-and-the-violence-of-womens-bodies/ |title=Guys on Immodesty: Lust and the Violence of Women's Bodies |work=Sociological Images |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.therebelution.com/|The Rebelution – official website}}
[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246258574 The Rebelution] at Facebook
[http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_content?page=1872155&sp=102656&event=1016DHT Interview with Alex and Brett Harris] at ChristianBook.com
[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/teens-not-with-stupid/ HICKS: Teens not with 'stupid'] from The Washington Times

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