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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
As a journalist taking assignments in war-torn areas, London-based American expat Charles Kriel developed an interest in big data and its use in disinformation campaigns. This eventually led to his…
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Religion Dispatches
Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work at Stanford, I met a cousin of mine in San Francisco. We had spent a lot of time together in early childhood in central…
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Religion Dispatches
America is trapped in an abusive relationship—not just with the pussy-grabbing President Donald Trump, our abuser-in-chief, but also with the Republican Party, its white Christian base, the police…
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