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Chrissy Stroop

An exvangelical writer, speaker and advocate, Chrissy Stroop is (with Lauren O’Neal) co-editor of the essay anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. A senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches and a weekly columnist for openDemocracy, her work has also appeared in Political Research AssociatesForeign PolicyThe Boston GlobePlayboyDAME Magazine, and other outlets, including peer-reviewed academic journals. Stroop has a PhD in modern Russian history from Stanford University, and was previously a senior research associate with the University of Innsbruck’s Postsecular Conflicts project. In 2019, she came out as a A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more woman and began her journey of medical transition. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Religion Dispatches
Over the same period in which advocates of reproductive justice have been fighting a rearguard effort to preserve Americans’ constitutional right to abortion care, LGBTQ advocates have fought to…
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Religion Dispatches
Paula Patrick, a conservative judge in Philadelphia perhaps best known for being on the wrong side of a Christopher Columbus statue controversy , objects to being called “ QAnon-linked .” In fact, she…
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Religion Dispatches
In my previous column here at RD , I used historical retrospective and my personal memories of the 1990s era Christian opposition to “Hillarycare” to contextualize the colossal failure of Sharity, a…
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