![]() The author shares vividly her earliest memories, family crises, theology and worldview. She bleeds her life story out in these pages, and anyone who has wrestled with faith, abuses of power and easy answers will be able to relate to her tale. And in her memoir, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, she shows incredible courage, an impressive measure of grace, and shares a whole lot of love from relatives and other people who shared her pain of being shunned by the cult that nurtured her. ![]() Megan Phelps-Roper was born into the founding family of the homophobic, anti-Semitic Westboro Baptist Church in the US – a group of individuals infamous for picketing soldiers’ funerals and other events they find offensive. What would it take for someone thoroughly brainwashed into a repressive, controlling Christian sect to break free from the dogma, the abuse and the compulsion to “blindly trust the elders”, as she puts it? ![]() Author Megan Phelps-Roper tells the story of how she left the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. ![]()
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