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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
With white evangelicals, America’s most pro-Trump demographic, currently in the news for sex scandals , committing violence , and defending violence , we once again find the meaning of Christianity…
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Religion Dispatches
Yesterday, August 24, 2020, was the first day of classes at right-wing evangelical school Liberty University. It also turned out to be the final day of the scandal-prone Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s…
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Religion Dispatches
What does it mean to put pluralism into practice? This is a serious question of civic life that the Left has unfortunately neglected , allowing the “ respectable ” Christian Right to weaponize the…
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