A quick perusal of his Twitter account, and you’ll find plenty re-tweeted gems like: “Abortion on demand and without apology!”
He wrote a book called Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. Stroop is one of the primary figures leading the exvangelical movement. I do understand why Stroop might not be too keen on “aggressive male leadership.” After all, “Chrissy” is actually a man named Chris. When lauding the book in a longer review, Stroop says, “…one of the key points of the book stresses that as Christian nationalists, the vast majority of white evangelicals believe that our country’s flourishing depends on aggressive male leadership.” Stroop’s review is the one that’s been chosen to grace the front cover of Jesus and John Wayne. Boston Globe writer “Chrissy” Stroop boldly claims: “This is the book America needs right now.” The media blitz for Jesus and John Wayne is unusually strong, and the book’s author Kristin Kobes Du Mez is being elevated as a “Christian historian and thought leader” faster than you can say “deconstruction is cool.” Beth Moore calls the book a must read. If you haven’t heard of this book yet, rest assured you will. One book that’s added plenty fuel to the fire is the New York Times best-seller Jesus and John Wayne : How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Memoirs and other non-fiction books are being released to help solidify the paradigm of this rising subculture. Organizations are being created to help exvangelicals get their stories out.
Chastain says exvangelicals are made up of anyone who’s been “harmed by patriarchal politics because they were queer, women or people of color.” Writer Blake Chastain who founded the #exvangelical movement (and started a podcast by the same name) claims the mass exodus from evangelicalism culminated with the overwhelming Christian support of Donald Trump. DC Talk’s Kevin Max says he’s been “progressing” in his faith and deconstructing it for decades, finally arriving at the “exvangelical” label.
Many well-known Christian singers, authors and children of megachurch pastors believe they are blazing a trail for the masses to follow by proudly making public announcements that they are severing all ties with their evangelical roots.įormer Christian best-selling author Joshua Harris ( I Kissed Dating Goodbye ) not only denounced evangelicalism but also apologized to the LGBTQ+ community. If you want to be on trend right now, simply refer to yourself as an “exvangelical.”
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