Chrissy Stroop

Chrissy Stroop is a freelance writer, public speaker, and commentator on religion and politics, the U.S. Christian Right, Russia, and foreign policy, currently a Senior Researcher with the Postsecular Conflicts project at the University of Innsbruck. Stroop’s personal blog, Not Your Mission Field, can be found at cstroop.com .

Image of the Moloch exhibit at the Ark Encounter.

Evangelical Radicalism Is Cartoonish, But It Isn’t Just a Sideshow

Chrissy Stroop

Evangelical authoritarianism is a problem that the American mainstream as a rule fails to treat with the seriousness it demands, in part because it’s easy to laugh at the antics of a Robert Jeffress while assuming that more respectable conservative evangelicals are more moderate and more numerous.

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

Chrissy Stroop

Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals' love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

Chrissy Stroop

I think all of these [Christian rock stars] who find the courage to share their truth make a huge impact, and if everyone in contemporary Christian music and the church was honest about their own truth, their own questions, and their own beliefs, I think we would progress a lot quicker.

Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

Chrissy Stroop

In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty.

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

Chrissy Stroop

While the "exvangelical" community was designed to help former evangelicals heal from a toxic environment, a subgroup of exvangelicals calling itself the “Magdalene Collective" released a statement that's been called transphobic and that many see as a replication of the very abusive patterns from which they'd been trying to escape.

LGBTQ Victory at Christian Azusa Pacific U. Leaves Significant Questions About Future and Faculty Security

Chrissy Stroop

While activists cite the policy change and the opportunity for more discussion and visibility on campus, it isn't clear how faculty would feel safe openly exploring queer theology while contractually required to oppose same-sex relationships on theological grounds.

Chrissy Stroop

Evangelical Radicalism Is Cartoonish, But It Isn’t Just a Sideshow

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma

LGBTQ Victory at Christian Azusa Pacific U. Leaves Significant Questions About Future and Faculty Security

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

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