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  • Racial Justice
    • Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
    • Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>
      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
  • Politics/Law
    • Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
    • What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
    • If the Family Research Council is a ‘Church’ I’m a #TaxTheChurches Supporter
      If the Family Research Council is a ‘Church’ I’m a #TaxTheChurches Supporter
  • The End of Roe
    • What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
    • Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
      Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
    • Stalked by The Plague, ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’ Follows a Medieval Abbey at a Time When Monastic Life Was a Refuge for Women
      Stalked by The Plague, ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’ Follows a Medieval Abbey at a Time When Monastic Life Was a Refuge for Women
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
    • What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
    • Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
      Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet

Chrissy Stroop

A prominent ex-evangelical writer, speaker, and advocate, Chrissy Stroop is (with Lauren O’Neal) coeditor of the essay anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. A senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches, her work has appeared in Dame Magazine, Foreign Policy, Playboy, Political Research Associates, and other outlets, including peer-reviewed academic journals. Holding a Ph.D. in modern Russian history from Stanford University, Stroop is a Senior Research Associate with the University of Innsbruck’s Postsecular Conflicts project. In 2019 Chrissy came out as a transgender woman and began her journey of medical transition. She resides in Portland, Oregon.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 27, 2022

If the Family Research Council is a ‘Church’ I’m a #TaxTheChurches Supporter

By Chrissy Stroop

Like other authoritarians, right-wing Christians often prefer to minimize transparency in order to avoid accountability….

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 20, 2022

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

I was born (and mostly raised) in Indiana, so let me start off with some…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 22, 2022

Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling

By Chrissy Stroop

The two Christian schools at the center of Carson v. Makin—the case in which the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawJune 16, 2022

Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

By Chrissy Stroop

In the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings—and the 54 mass shootings (and counting)…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeMay 26, 2022

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

You know it’s coming. Every time a mass shooting captures the American public’s consciousness, leading…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeMay 19, 2022

‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v….

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFG, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeMay 13, 2022

‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?

By Chrissy Stroop

Over the same period in which advocates of reproductive justice have been fighting a rearguard…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawApril 27, 2022

Conservative Judge Suing ‘Daily Beast’ for ‘QAnon-linked’ Headline Thought QAnon Pod Was ‘Aimed at Christian Audience’ — Spoiler: It Was

By Chrissy Stroop

Paula Patrick, a conservative judge in Philadelphia perhaps best known for being on the wrong…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyApril 26, 2022

Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

In my previous column here at RD, I used historical retrospective and my personal memories…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 21, 2022

Evangelical Healthcare Sharing Plan Catastrophically Fails — But Why Did So Many Join in the First Place?

By Chrissy Stroop

Remember the 1990s? The inexplicable popularity of fluorescent fanny packs? The innocent thrill of getting…

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