![]() ![]() Their website has also become extremely popular: as one of the most popular websites for Christian teenagers, it has racked up almost 40 million views since 2007. Nearly half a million books have been sold and the book has been translated into more than a dozen languages. From this community, the Harrises launched multiple book projects, international conferences, as well as political campaigns for evangelical Christian candidates.ĭo Hard Things was a bestselling book, reaching #5 overall on Amazon’s bestseller list and #1 under Christianity. Their website “The Rebelution” (which is still active today) hosts articles and forums for young evangelicals to connect over and thus created a large online community of like-minded young people. In addition to the book, the Harrises also created a website for their expanding market and fan base. In short, the Harris twins’ movement was entirely conservative: it was to rebel against change wrought by liberal and progressive activism, to instead encourage youth to obey authority and protect those in power. They called this so-called revolution “The Rebelution.” The revolution’s name, as they explain in Do Hard Things, is a portmanteau of “rebellion” and “revolution” (p. ![]() It was meant to inspire their teen-aged peers to “rebel against low expectations,” to rebel against rebellion itself and instead focus on pursuing evangelical and Republican goals. Do Hard Things-the self-help book written in 2008 by the most famous twins in evangelical homeschooling, Alex and Brett Harris-was supposed to create a revolution. ![]()
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