An ex-evangelical 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, her work has also appeared in Dame Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, Playboy, Political Research Associates and other outlets, including peer-reviewed academic journals. Stroop has a PhD in modern Russian history from Stanford University, and is a senior research associate with the University of Innsbruck’s Postsecular Conflicts project. In 2019, she came out as a transgender woman and began her journey of medical transition. She lives in Portland, Oregon, US.
-
Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Jesus was born to a teen mom’ – don’t believe the hypeOPINION: A conservative, right-wing agenda lies behind the modern slogans and slick graphics of the ‘He Gets Us’ ads
-
Published in: 50.50: OpinionThis Black History Month, Americans are trying to whitewash US historyOPINION: Republicans like Ron DeSantis are doing their best to ban any teaching of America’s racist past
-
Published in: 50.50: OpinionBoycott the National Prayer Breakfast, for the good of all AmericansOPINION: Controversial annual ‘influence-peddling bazaar’ has been rebranded, but the changes are only cosmetic
-
Published in: 50.50: OpinionAnti-trans trend in US will inevitably lead to violenceOPINION: The rhetorical and legislative onslaught against trans people in the US has reached a dangerous new high
-
Published in: 50.50: OpinionHow American elites sleepwalked into losing the right to abortionRoe v Wade would have turned 50 today. Here’s what we do to get our freedoms back from the Christian right
-
Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy America’s most diverse Congress isn’t much to celebrateOPINION: Electing more Republican women won’t fix a dysfunctional two-party system where only one supports equal rights