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'[[File:KStewartPortrait.jpg|thumb|Katherine Stewart by Aaron Sacco]] '''Katherine Stewart''' is an [[American people|American]] [[journalist]] and [[author]]. Her work has appeared in ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Reuters]], ''[[The Atlantic]],''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/a-catholic-a-baptist-and-a-secular-humanist-walk-into-a-soup-kitchen/277379/|title=A Catholic, A Baptist, and A Secular Humanist Walk Into a Soup Kitchen|publisher=The Atlantic|date=June 29, 2013}}</ref> ''[[Bloomberg View]]'', ''[[Newsweek International]]'', ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The New York Observer]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'',<ref name=Nation>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/195105/church-and-school|publisher=The Nation|title=The Movement to Put a Church in Every School Is Growing|date=January 14, 2015}}</ref> [[AlterNet]], ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', ''Santa Barbara Magazine,'' and others.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/katherine-stewart|title=Katherine Stewart|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://religiondispatches.org/debating-the-nones-part-3/|title=Debating the Nones Part 3|publisher=religiondispatches.org|date=December 3, 2012}}</ref> Her books are ''The Good News Club'' (2012) which focuses on [[religion]] and [[public education]], and ''The Power Worshippers'' (2020), which covers the rise of Christian nationalism in the U.S. She has appeared on [[WNYC]]'s the [[Brian Lehrer Show]].<ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http:https://www.wnyc.org/story/religious-rights-rise-power/|title=The Religious Right's Rise to Power|publisher=The Brian Lehrer Show|date=March 4, 2020}}</ref> == Early life and career == Born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], she started her career in [[journalism]] working for [[investigative reporter]] [[Wayne Barrett]] at ''[[The Village Voice]]''. == Work == Stewart writes about controversies over [[religious freedom]], [[separation of church and state]], [[public education]], [[science education]], [[climate science]], the [[public funding]] of [[faith-based initiatives]],<ref name=Kirk/> and [[bullying in schools]] in the U.S.. She delves into these themes and the figures involved as an [[op-ed]] contributor to the ''New York Times.''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/roy-moore-women-harassment.html|title=Every Other Terrible Thing About Roy Moore|date=20 November 2017|last=Stewart|first=Katherine}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/sunday/trump-evangelicals.html|title=Don't Let Trump Pay Back Evangelicals Like This|date=6 March 2020|last=Stewart}}</ref><ref name=Cyrus>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/trump-evangelicals-cyrus-king.html|title=Why Trump Reigns As King Cyrus|date=31 December 2019|last=Stewart}}</ref> Provoked by [[Good News Club|the group]]'s push into her children's public school, she wrote ''The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children'' ([[PublicAffairs]], 2012).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/these-christian-teachers-want-to-bring-jesus-into-public-schools--legally/2016/03/12/bfd95986-dfd3-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html|title=These Christian teachers want to bring Jesus into public schools|last=Brown|first=Emma|date=12 March 2016|publisher=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.startribune.com/nonfiction-review-book-exposes-the-violation-of-church-and-state-in-schools/137980208/|title=NONFICTION REVIEW: Book exposes the violation of church and state in schools|last=Heffner|first=Alexander|publisher=Minnesota Star Tribune|date=24 January 2012}}</ref> Beth Hawkins of [[MinnPost]] called it "groundbreaking."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.minnpost.com/learning-curve/2012/06/katherine-stewart-how-christian-clubs-schools-turned-faith-based-bullying|title=Katherine Stewart: How Christian clubs in schools turned into faith-based bullying|last=Hawkins|first=Beth|date=22 June 2012|publisher=MinnPost}}</ref> Stewart wrote about the attorney representing the [[Encinitas, California]] parents who filed a complaint in 2013 with their [[San Diego County|county]] about their school district offering yoga in their children's program. The attorney had ties to Christian groups with agendas for schools.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573929/Is-it-just-stretching-or-is-it-religion-Lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-yoga-class-in-public-schools.html|title=Is it just stretching or is it religion? Lawsuit seeks to stop yoga class in public schools|last=Brown|first=Matthew|publisher=Deseret News|date=22 February 2013}}</ref> Stewart has also written about the role of [[Donald J. Trump]]'s shift on abortion as a factor in his 2016 win.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/eighty-one-percent-of-white-evangelicals-voted-for-donald-trump-why/|title=Eighty-One Percent of White Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump. Why?|last=Stewart|date=17 November 2016|publisher=The Nation}}</ref> Sections of ''The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism'' was adapted by the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' and ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Faith Militant|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/156415/faith-militant|publisher=The New Republic|last=Stewart|date=March 2020}}</ref> In addition, Stewart has published two [[novel]]s, ''The Yoga Mamas'' (2005) and ''Class Mothers'' (2006),<ref name=Kirk>{{cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katherine-stewart/good-news-club/|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|title=Book Review: The Good News Club|date=December 19, 2011 }}</ref> with [[Berkley Publishing|Berkley Publishing Group]], a division of [[Penguin Books]]. Along with [[music journalist]] Evelyn McDonnell, she cowrote a book about the musical [[Rent (musical)|''Rent'']] in 1997.<ref>Larson, Jonathan, ''Rent'' (New York: It Books, 1997)</ref> ==Awards== *2014 [[Americans United for Separation of Church and State|Americans United]] Person of the Year<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.au.org/church-state/december-2014-church-state/people-events/investigative-journalist-named-au-s-person-of|title=Investigative Journalist Named AU’s ‘Person Of The Year’ At Meeting|publisher=au.org|date=December 2014}}</ref> ==See also== *[[Child evangelism movement]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.thegoodnewsclub.com}} *[http://www.startribune.com/nonfiction-review-book-exposes-the-violation-of-church-and-state-in-schools/137980208/ Review of ''The Good News Club'' in the ''Minnesota Star Tribune''] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Katherine}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Writers from Boston]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:21st-century American women writers]] {{US-journalist-stub}}'