[1] He is married to Dr. Donna Fox Stroup, a mathematical statistician.
Stroup first studied history at Rice University[2] before attending Yale Divinity School.
In 2005, he was appointed as the J.B. Green Professor of Theology until his retirement in 2014.
[3] Among many contributions, he was on the editorial board for Westminster John Knox Press for The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology (1995) and Feasting on the Word: Preaching for the Revised Common Lectionary (2008-2010).
For the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), he was on the General Assembly Committee on the Inclusion of the Belhar Confession in the Book of Confessions (2009-2010), the General Assembly Select Committee on a Brief Confession of Faith (1984-1991), and The Council on Theology and Culture (1983-1988).