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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.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawDecember 10, 2020

America’s National Conversation about Christianity is ‘Fundamentally Unserious’ — But Not in the Way You Think

By Chrissy Stroop

As I’ve argued before, the United States, an ostensibly secular country, has a de facto…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawNovember 18, 2020

Why Does Trump’s Authoritarian Christian Base Ignore Never-Trump Evangelical Leaders?

By Chrissy Stroop

Here we are, a week and a half after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden became…

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Archive, Culture, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderOctober 27, 2020

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

Below is the second of a two-part interview with Charles Kriel and Katharina Gellein Viken…

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Archive, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderOctober 26, 2020

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

As a journalist taking assignments in war-torn areas, London-based American expat Charles Kriel developed an…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawOctober 8, 2020

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawSeptember 25, 2020

Why the Media and Democrats Should Reject the Christian Right’s Pearl-Clutching and Address Problematic Religious Views

By Chrissy Stroop

America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our…

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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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