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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.

Politics/LawNovember 1, 2018

Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

Evangelicals—and those who are strongly invested in a “respectable” image for evangelicalism—now seem to be making a concerted effort to push back ahead of the midterm elections.

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Archive, Politics/LawAugust 17, 2017

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

Have you been waiting for any prominent conservative evangelical leaders to withdraw or temper their…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Politics/LawJune 23, 2017

Franklin Graham Blames Democrats for Escalating Tensions with Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

For someone professing to be convinced that “God” placed Donald J. Trump in the office…

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Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 25, 2017

“Exvangelical” Podcast: Safe Space for Those “Living In, Leaving, or Coming to Terms With” Evangelicalism

By Chrissy Stroop

In June 2015, I asserted here on RD that “we need to listen to the voices…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/LawMay 12, 2017

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made headlines for his appearance at the Billy Graham Evangelistic…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawDecember 14, 2016

Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks

By Chrissy Stroop

The CIA has now concluded that Russian intervention was designed not just to undermine faith in American democratic processes, but also to tip the election specifically in Trump’s favor.

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawOctober 13, 2016

After the Trump Tapes: Evangelical Authoritarianism Revisited

By Chrissy Stroop

Recent data placed white evangelical Trump support at 78 percent.

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Archive, Israel-Palestine, Remapping American ChristianitiesJune 20, 2016

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesApril 6, 2016

Why Trumpvangelicals Don’t Need Ted Cruz: Conservative Christianity’s Authoritarian Streak

By Chrissy Stroop

Donald Trump’s bizarre rise seems to be, as new research suggests, the result of an increasing American…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/Law, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/Gender, Special Features, StoriesJanuary 19, 2016

Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?

By Chrissy Stroop

On a fall day in 1998 I sat opposite the kindly guidance counselor at my Midwestern Christian high…

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