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      With no Viable Alternative on Ballot, Anti-immigrant Movement Claims Victory and Releases Wish Lists
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      Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?
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      The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’
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      With no Viable Alternative on Ballot, Anti-immigrant Movement Claims Victory and Releases Wish Lists
    • New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
      New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
    • PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
      PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About
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    • Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
      Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC
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      New Doc Strives for Christian Unity—But What if Unity is the Problem?
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      A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy
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    • The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’
      The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’
    • The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right
      The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right
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      With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation

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.

Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawAugust 19, 2020

In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

What does it mean to put pluralism into practice? This is a serious question of…

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Archive, Politics/LawAugust 18, 2020

Christian Schools Invoke Religious Liberty to Reopen Despite Warnings of Health Experts

By Chrissy Stroop

Here on RD, I took a look at the legal case against exempting churches from…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 24, 2020

Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists

By Chrissy Stroop

According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National…

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Archive, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 10, 2020

No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful

By Chrissy Stroop

This week, Harper’s Magazine set off a firestorm by publishing “A Letter on Justice and…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawJune 29, 2020

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a…

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Archive, Politics/LawJune 2, 2020

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, President Donald Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC,…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawMay 20, 2020

No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

As I recently observed here on RD, the Democratic faith outreach discussion in America’s 2020…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveMay 12, 2020

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

Are the nonreligious a marginalized group in America? When I brought this question up to…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawMay 6, 2020

Where’s the 2020 Democratic Faith Outreach Discussion… Or Has the Folly of Courting White Evangelicals Finally Hit Home?

By Chrissy Stroop

The 2020 election season is ramping up. Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGApril 21, 2020

Will the Pandemic Hasten the Decline of Christianity or is it ‘America’s Best Hope for a Religious Revival’?

By Chrissy Stroop

On April 2, BuzzFeed’s Ryan Broderick published some sober reflections on how our world might…

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