Chrys Stevenson

Chrys Stevenson is a freelance researcher and writer with a wide range of interests, including women’s issues, social justice, voluntary assisted dying, Australian history, Christian dominionism and the separation of church and state. She holds a first-class honours degree in Australian cultural history and a Bachelor of Arts in history, literature, and social science.

Chrys was the ‘scribe’ for Ron Williams’ two High Court cases against the National School Chaplaincy Program, documenting the progress of the cases in numerous articles and blog posts.

Chrys’ writing has been widely published on Medium (for Humanists Australia), ABC’s Religion and Ethics, in The Australian Book of Atheism (2010) and elsewhere. She is, perhaps, best known for her (2011) article for ABC’s Religion and Ethics, ‘Is the Australian Christian Lobby Dominionist?’

Her blog, Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear at chrysstevenson.com, has been classified as a blog of national importance and is archived by the National Library of Australia.