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Chrissy Stroop

@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social

Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road

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Chrissy Stroop@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · last wk.

By the way, I know I've neglected it for way too long, and to all my readers and subscribers, I am sorry. I've been working on some health issues, both physical and mental. Today I wanted to get back to writing, and now my website is borked. I hope I can get this sorted soon

Chrissy Stroop@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · last wk.

So, The Bugbear Dispatch seems to be down, and I'm not at all sure why. The domain www.bugbeardispatch.com is active and paid for. I bought it and maintain it via WordPress. Other sites on Ghost seem to be working. Wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? I'd be grateful!

Chrissy Stroop@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

Kathryn Joyce@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · last mo.

Grieving the loss of Ryan Stollar—a kind, brave & deeply intelligent advocate for the overlooked children of fundamentalism, who I met reporting on the movement he helped begin. As the right re-embraces the harmful ideologies Ryan did so much to deconstruct, I'll miss his clear moral voice.

The Homeschool Apostates - The American Prospect

They were raised to carry the fundamentalist banner forward and redeem America. But now the Joshua Generation is rebelling.

prospect.org

Chrissy Stroop@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · last mo.

Breaking my social media hiatus today to ask people who know him to please check in on Ryan Stollar (publicly known as R.L. Stollar). Don't flood his mentions. If you know him, send him real, caring messages. Ryan's latest blog post is a suicide note. I'm heartbroken share.google/EHIf0SbX442L...

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.

It should also be noted that Glusenkamp Perez is one of the Dems that regularly votes for anti-trans legislation. She voted for a bill that, if enacted, would basically make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in schools (meaning trans students and trans teachers are SOL)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

Michael Bazemore@deepwatermike.bsky.social · last mo.

This gets at a real problem I've been struggling to describe. What if Donald Trump isn't an anomaly, but an immune response? We say the Framers' wanted to avoid someone like him, but here we are, because of their (mainly) undemocratic nature. Trump is their America reasserting itself.

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · last mo.

"If 'all men,' let alone all people, have never been equal in the United States, how long is it reasonable to wait before we conclude the fault must lie in the system itself?" New from @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social!

Doug Garrison@dhgarrison.bsky.social · last mo.

When you recognize that a small group of wealthy, slaveholding white men established a system of government upon the structures of settler colonialism, patriarchy, and racial capitalism that was designed explicitly to protect and sustain their power and status, a lot of things fall into place.

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · last mo.

"If 'all men,' let alone all people, have never been equal in the United States, how long is it reasonable to wait before we conclude the fault must lie in the system itself?" New from @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social!