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1. I so appreciate the responses so far! While we're on this, I'm just going make an #ILeftBecause thread with links to my writing.
I've written a lot on this , and I work to highlight the voices of others, as in @laureneoneal's and my Empty the Pews:
https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Pews-Stories-Leaving-Church/dp/1946093076 https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1328721279898116097
I've written a lot on this , and I work to highlight the voices of others, as in @laureneoneal's and my Empty the Pews:
https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Pews-Stories-Leaving-Church/dp/1946093076 https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1328721279898116097
2. I recently wrote an article for @damemagazine on what ex-evangelicals can teach America about Trump's white Christian base. Quoted exvie smarties @lauraeanderson, @ToriGlass and @JoshuaGrubbsPhD:
https://www.damemagazine.com/2020/08/20/what-ex-evangelicals-can-teach-us-about-trump-christians/
#ILeftBecause #tuesdaymotivations
https://www.damemagazine.com/2020/08/20/what-ex-evangelicals-can-teach-us-about-trump-christians/
#ILeftBecause #tuesdaymotivations
3. Not too long ago, over at @RNS, I similarly argued the case for why ex-evangelicals and other survivors of abusive forms of Christianity deserve a hearing in the public square:
https://religionnews.com/2020/01/29/giving-victims-of-religious-trauma-a-voice/
#ILeftBecause #EmptyThePews
https://religionnews.com/2020/01/29/giving-victims-of-religious-trauma-a-voice/
#ILeftBecause #EmptyThePews
4. Occasionally, I get to tell parts of my personal story in my commentary. Like in this piece for @RDispatches on how no, despite what you read in the papers, white evangelical youth are not about to change evangelicalism for the better
https://religiondispatches.org/fact-check-is-the-evangelical-youth-inspired-great-awokening-just-around-the-corner/
#ILeftBecause
https://religiondispatches.org/fact-check-is-the-evangelical-youth-inspired-great-awokening-just-around-the-corner/
#ILeftBecause
5. It's hard to leave an abusive, authoritarian religious community. I wasn't very public about what I really think about evangelicalism until I published this in 2015, causing serious family fallout.
I wouldn't take it back if I could
https://www.salon.com/2015/07/09/this_is_not_love_but_abuse_why_i_abandoned_evangelicalism_partner/
#ILeftBecause
I wouldn't take it back if I could
https://www.salon.com/2015/07/09/this_is_not_love_but_abuse_why_i_abandoned_evangelicalism_partner/
#ILeftBecause
6. Part of the reason it's hard for exvies to get a hearing in the public sphere is because it's not just the @RodDreher-s of the world who don't want to hear us.
It's also major media outlets, as I discuss with @pastordan:
https://religiondispatches.org/cherry-picking-in-the-god-gap-a-post-election-conversation-on-the-religious-vote-and-the-battle-to-spin-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cherry-picking-in-the-god-gap-a-post-election-conversation-on-the-religious-vote-and-the-battle-to-spin-it
#ILeftBecause
It's also major media outlets, as I discuss with @pastordan:
https://religiondispatches.org/cherry-picking-in-the-god-gap-a-post-election-conversation-on-the-religious-vote-and-the-battle-to-spin-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cherry-picking-in-the-god-gap-a-post-election-conversation-on-the-religious-vote-and-the-battle-to-spin-it
#ILeftBecause
7. Aside: social media is starting to change this, since when we gain collective visibility via a hashtag like #ExposeChristianSchools, we can get coverage in outlets like @AP and @nytimes. #ILeftBecause will have similar power if enough people tweet it: https://apnews.com/article/4202bedd44b54572a74dc152dbb65b72
7-a. Here's that @nytimes article on #ExposeChristianSchools
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/christian-schools-students.html
#ILeftBecause
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/christian-schools-students.html
#ILeftBecause
8. My corpus over at @Convo_ist is more analysis than personal narrative, but when it comes to #ILeftBecause, what I've written there chronicles many of the reasons.
See for example: https://conversationalist.org/2020/02/13/the-only-way-to-save-democracy-from-the-christian-right-is-by-fighting-for-pluralism/
See for example: https://conversationalist.org/2020/02/13/the-only-way-to-save-democracy-from-the-christian-right-is-by-fighting-for-pluralism/
9. And also this:
https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/27/authoritarian-christians-are-deliberately-undermining-the-public-health-response-to-coronavirus/
#ILeftBecause
https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/27/authoritarian-christians-are-deliberately-undermining-the-public-health-response-to-coronavirus/
#ILeftBecause
10. And this too:
https://conversationalist.org/2020/10/29/pro-biden-white-evangelicals-are-a-minority-the-vast-majority-will-support-trump/
#ILeftBecause
https://conversationalist.org/2020/10/29/pro-biden-white-evangelicals-are-a-minority-the-vast-majority-will-support-trump/
#ILeftBecause
11. And I could say much the same about my work for
@Playboy as I said about @Convo_ist:
https://www.playboy.com/profile/chrissy-stroop
#ILeftBecause #EmptyThePews
@Playboy as I said about @Convo_ist:
https://www.playboy.com/profile/chrissy-stroop
#ILeftBecause #EmptyThePews
12. I've told more of my personal story on my blog, Not Your Mission Field, and on podcasts. Here's one of my favorite blog posts:
https://cstroop.com/2017/03/06/educated-evangelicals-academic-achievement-and-trumpism-on-the-tensions-in-valuing-education-in-an-anti-intellectual-subculture/
#ILeftBecause #TuesdayMotivation
https://cstroop.com/2017/03/06/educated-evangelicals-academic-achievement-and-trumpism-on-the-tensions-in-valuing-education-in-an-anti-intellectual-subculture/
#ILeftBecause #TuesdayMotivation
13: As for podcasts, I've enjoyed chatting with people like @AuthorKimberley, @Alyssa_Milano, @page88, @anamariecox, and the folks at @howtoheretic, sometimes joined by @laureneoneal - just to list a few! Recently she and I also had a great time video chatting with @peterbcounter
14. So check out all those folks. Here are some links:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chrissy-stroop/id1160491947?i=1000494761111
https://slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast/2020/02/losing-the-fear-of-evangelical-hell
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empty-the-pews-with-ex-evangelical-chrissy-stroop/id1460720864?i=1000468524767
https://howtoheretic.com/podcast/2020/8/19/152-empty-the-pews
http://www.anamariecox.com/with-friends-like-these/2020/1/13/the-giant-negging-pick-up-artist-in-the-sky
#ILeftBecause #podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chrissy-stroop/id1160491947?i=1000494761111
https://slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast/2020/02/losing-the-fear-of-evangelical-hell
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empty-the-pews-with-ex-evangelical-chrissy-stroop/id1460720864?i=1000468524767
https://howtoheretic.com/podcast/2020/8/19/152-empty-the-pews
http://www.anamariecox.com/with-friends-like-these/2020/1/13/the-giant-negging-pick-up-artist-in-the-sky
#ILeftBecause #podcasts
15. Thanks for reading!
If you find value in my work to expose evangelical abuse and change the national conversation on conservative Christianity, please support me via Patreon if you can afford to--much love to my patrons, whose support I depend on! https://www.patreon.com/cstroop
If you find value in my work to expose evangelical abuse and change the national conversation on conservative Christianity, please support me via Patreon if you can afford to--much love to my patrons, whose support I depend on! https://www.patreon.com/cstroop
