Stroop’s endorsement of Jesus and John Wayne is a pull-quote from his Jreview in The Boston Globe. He really does seem to believe that our faith is harmful to people and should be opposed at every turn. The rest of Stroop’s website and indeed his other writings demonstrate just how deeply he is offended by and opposed to evangelical Christianity. Reclaiming and sharing our ex-evangelical stories serves both to foster healing for exvies and to raise awareness among the broader American public of the threat to democracy and human rights posed by theocratic ideology, and of the real human harm caused by evangelical ideology and practice.
I am convinced of the need to create more spaces for exvies and exiles from other forms of religious fundamentalism (and yes, the vast majority of white American evangelical Protestants do qualify as fundamentalist, whether they accept the label or not). Much of my blogging here is dedicated to this end, and this site also hosts an annotated list of resources for those deconstructing and deconstructed from toxic religion. I am an ex-evangelical–aka exvangelical or exvie–and in that capacity I seek to help build community for those harmed by and alienated from conservative religious groups. Stroop describes himself this way on his website:
Yesterday, someone brought to my attention that one of the lead endorsers of Jesus and John Wayne is Chrissy Stroop-a transgender exvangelical who is deconstructing his faith and whose endorsement appears on the cover of the book.
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