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      Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?
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      Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space
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      Because We Dared to Exist: After Generations of Trauma Black Gun Ownership is on the Rise
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      Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?
    • ‘We’re Through the Looking Glass Now’: Talking Deradicalization with Dr. John Horgan
      ‘We’re Through the Looking Glass Now’: Talking Deradicalization with Dr. John Horgan
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      The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion
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      We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom
    • As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
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    • It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
    • We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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      11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
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      Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story?
    • Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

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, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeSeptember 16, 2020

Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable

By Chrissy Stroop

Have you ever noticed that for hardline ideologues, only their opponents are “doing politics,” while…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeSeptember 11, 2020

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

The 2020 results of Ligonier Ministries’ and Lifeway Research’s State of Theology Survey, a project…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Racial JusticeSeptember 2, 2020

News Flash: Christian Supporters of Kenosha Killer are Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

With white evangelicals, America’s most pro-Trump demographic, currently in the news for sex scandals, committing…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGAugust 25, 2020

Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

By Chrissy Stroop

Yesterday, August 24, 2020, was the first day of classes at right-wing evangelical school Liberty…

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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, 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, 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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