Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement
by By Sandler, Lauren
Category: Religion , Christian Education , Children & Youth

In this book, Lauren Sandler reports from the junction of Evangelicalism and youth culture, traveling across the country to investigate the alternative Christian explosion. Secular, liberal, and practically the embodiment of everything Evangelicalism deems unholy, Sandler travels with skateboard missionaries, hangs out with the tattooed members of a postpunk Seattle mega-church that has evolved into a self-sufficient community, camps out with a rock 'n' roll antiabortion group, and gets to know the rap preachers who are merging hip-hop's love of money with old-fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism. Much more than a mere observer, she connects with these young people on an intimate level, and the candor with which they reveal themselves to her is truly astonishing. This is the first in-depth front-line exploration of the country's new moral majority - dressed up in punk-rock garb - and what its influence could mean for the future of America.