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@C_Stroop
Oct 1, 2018 • 15 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
1. I just sent out this month's newsletter for all @Patreon patrons who support me with a $5 or higher monthly pledge. If you find my work valuable and would like the inside Stroop scoop, please consider joining them!

patreon.com/cstroop

#Exvangelical #SundayThoughts
2. At the end of the last academic year, I faced a choice--move back in with my parents in Indiana to pursue the freelance writing and speaking opportunities I was getting more of, or adjunct at the University of South Florida for low pay and no benefits. Or find something new.
3. Here's a thread with some of my life story up to the present. The travel to Austria next spring to do a semester of research mentioned in it fell through despite me having been promised it for years.

4. So now I'm taking this whole year to see if I can make writing, speaking, and activism into a sustainable living. I'm getting more opportunities. This month, I published in @ForeignPolicy for the first time, in @MoscowTimes for the first time w/ something not printed elsewhere
5. And I published in @Playboy for the fifth time. Having an income through Patreon is helping me immensely as I work toward a couple of book projects in the hopes of making this a sustainable career. In the tweets below, I'll link to some things I published this month.
6. Here's my @MoscowTimes commentary on why the rivalry between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople matters for the future of both Ukraine and democracy:

themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-r…
7. Here's my longer, more detailed commentary on these issues in @ForeignPolicy:

foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/10/put…
8. My latest @Playboy article examines the mistreatment that LGBTQ students face at Christian colleges, and the ways those colleges enforce hardline conservative orthodoxy in general.

playboy.com/read/want-to-k…

#TheocracyAlert #Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #Resist
9. I have also engaged the public this month on @RickSmithShow and on podcasts including @TwistedSisterds and @NiceMangos' Polite Conversations with Eiynah. And my #Exvangelical work has continued on my blog, #NotYourMissionField, at ChrisStroop.com.
10. The Ex-Evangelical Conversations series continued with @faithlizhunter's harrowing story of extreme abuse and survival. We need these #Exvangelical stories and discussions--both for individual healing and to fight the Trumpist Christian Right.

chrisstroop.com/2018/09/18/ex-…
11. And on September 8, we held an #Exvangelical roundtable discussion in Clearwater, FL, featuring me, @julieingersoll, @brchastain, @Lily_Warrior, @KEBrightbill, and @WheelerWorkshop. It was a very positive and uplifting event. @ericageorge23 and @JosiahMHesse where there.
12. @NutMeg897 and @ManHasRuinedGod were there too! At some point, @brchastain is going to make the audio of the discussion available as a special episode of @exvangelicalpod.

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews
13. On October 12, @JosiahMHesse will be in Chicago for a live event! Blake and I will be there, and we'll all be recording a special episode of @exvangelicalpod after Josiah's book tour event. Come join us if you can!

citylitbooks.com/event/exvangel…

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews
14. Hopefully this thread gives you some sense of how I'm able to spend my time productively thanks to people who can afford it believing in me enough to support my work with a monthly pledge. If you can afford to, I'd greatly appreciate you joining them. Any amount helps!
15. Thanks, and here's that Patreon link again! Don't give if you can't afford to. I'm not a church, after all. 😉😈❤️

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#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #SundayThoughts

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Sep 29, 2018
Another reversal of an improvement for LGBTQ acceptance in an evangelical institution (World Vision is the other one I have in mind). Evangelicalism doesn’t change its patriarchal ways. It just casts out the people who would make it better.

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #Resist
Of course Wheaton might be the more direct parallel.

time.com/4233666/wheato…

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews
For more on the authoritarian enforcement of hardline conservative orthodoxy at evangelical colleges, see my latest for @Playboy:

playboy.com/read/want-to-k…

#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #SaturdayThoughts
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Sep 19, 2018
I also RT requests for financial help fairly often. Unfortunately, many in the #Exvangelical community have needs and are hampered by lack of education, meaningless degrees, or lack of professional experience outside evangelical institutions. The social costs of leaving are high.
I don’t want or expect anyone who can’t afford it to give, and I don’t want anyone to feel obligated; even just RTing those requests is immensely helpful. It is my hope that someday we’ll have some kind of foundation to fund #Exvangelical projects and meet needs. #EmptyThePews
Sometimes crowdfunding is all that stands between an #Exvangelical and homelessness, or being forced to return to a toxic, abusive living situation. That’s the uncomfortable reality. I do make small donations myself to almost every fundraising request I amplify.
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Sep 13, 2018
“We have to put citizens at the heart of our response to disinformation.” - Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) at the Indiana Council on World Affairs.
One thing social media sites should be doing is providing a simplified approach to their terms of service so that users can provide informed consent.

Enforcement of terms of service also needs to be consistent, and cannot he left to algorithms alone.
Social media platforms should step up to pay for human processes re: terms of service violations and appeals. Democracy is at stake.

They can also embrace more of an educational role with respect to information literacy.
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Sep 7, 2018
September is a big month! I’m at the airport on my way Florida for The #Exvangelical Community: Paths, Projects, Prospects. In the last two days I’ve filed two pieces with editors, and this week I did podcasts w/ @NiceMangos and @kitchencultpod (@haettinger and @mxdarkwater). #FF
Next weekend I’ll be in Charleston, South Carolina to give a talk for @CHShumanists, and am very much looking forward to that! October is also pretty full!



#Exvangelical #EmptyThePews #FridayFeeIing #FF
And next week I’ll also be doing a second podcast episode with @TwistedSisterds! It’ll be my second time on, and I sure had fun last time!

twistedsisterds.podbean.com

#Exvangelical #FF
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Aug 28, 2018
1. A few thoughts on Trump's dinner in honor of evangelicals, which I'll be discussing with @RickSmithShow later. Key context to consider is that fascism is concerned with defining who belongs to "the nation" or "the people," and who doesn't. Internal enemies (Others) are needed.
2. This dovetails neatly with the way in which fundamentalist believers police who does and does not count as a member of their religious confession. This is critical to understanding the Christian Right's politics of "religious freedom":

3. Indeed, as I have written elsewhere, "Fundamentalism is authoritarianism in microcosm, or on the margins. Fascism is essentially fundamentalism in power." The vast majority of white evangelicals are authoritarian and fundamentalist.

chrisstroop.com/2017/03/06/edu…

#EmptyThePews
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Aug 27, 2018
1. This excellent report on the Russian Orthodox Church’s attempt to keep control over Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians, involving hacking by Fancy Bear, shows why religion matters for our understanding of political science, international relations, and geopolitics. Some thoughts.
2. I single out poli sci and IR b/c they have remained more aloof than other fields to the "religious turn" in the humanities and social sciences associated with reevaluating the social significance of religion and the history and contemporary realities of religion and secularism
3. With my academic hat on, I have been, and remain, involved in these conversations about religion and secularism, for example in my affiliation as a senior research associate with the Postsecular Conflicts project, which focuses on Russia:

uibk.ac.at/projects/posts…
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