Stroop claims to be a вЂњtrans woman raised as a boy and indoctrinated in the Christian right, including at anti-LGBTQ Christian schools.вЂќ He says all this on the GoFundMe page he started so that his readers could help fund his sex change. A quick perusal of his Twitter account, and youвЂ™ll find plenty re-tweeted gems like: вЂњAbortion on demand and without apology!вЂќ 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 вЂњaggressive male leadership.вЂќ After all, вЂњChrissyвЂќ is actually a man named Chris.

When lauding the book in a longer review, Stroop says, вЂњвЂ¦one of the key points of the book stresses that as Christian nationalists, the vast majority of white evangelicals believe that our countryвЂ™s flourishing depends on aggressive male leadership.вЂќ StroopвЂ™s review is the one thatвЂ™s been chosen to grace the front cover of Jesus and John Wayne. Boston Globe writer вЂњChrissyвЂќ Stroop boldly claims: вЂњThis is the book America needs right now.вЂќ The media blitz for Jesus and John Wayne is unusually strong, and the bookвЂ™s author Kristin Kobes Du Mez is being elevated as a вЂњChristian historian and thought leaderвЂќ faster than you can say вЂњdeconstruction is cool.вЂќ Beth Moore calls the book a must read.

If you havenвЂ™t heard of this book yet, rest assured you will. One book thatвЂ™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 whoвЂ™s been вЂњharmed by patriarchal politics because they were queer, women or people of color.вЂќ 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 TalkвЂ™s Kevin Max says heвЂ™s been вЂњprogressingвЂќ in his faith and deconstructing it for decades, finally arriving at the вЂњexvangelicalвЂќ 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.ДЇormer 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 вЂњexvangelical.вЂќ

Jesus and john wayne critique