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Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- Title
- Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church / Megan Phelps-Roper.
- Author
- Phelps-Roper, Megan, 1986-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 289 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
- At the age of five, Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. She became the church's Twitter spokeswoman, but dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church's leaders and message. Here she relates her moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. -- adapted from jacket
- Subjects
- Christianity and politics
- United States
- Christianity and politics > United States
- Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka, Kan.)
- Autobiographies
- Religious tolerance > Christianity
- Toleration > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Ex-church members > Baptists > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
- Biographies
- Phelps-Roper, Megan, 1986-
- RELIGION / Fundamentalism
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- The quarrel of the Covenant -- The bounds of our habitation -- The wars of the Lord -- The tongue is a fire -- The lust of the flesh -- The appearance of evil -- Ye shall be judged -- Strangers and pilgrims -- Lift up thy voice.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1711
- ISBN
- 9780374275839
- 0374275831
- LCCN
- 2019018856
- 40029519628
- OCLC
- 1100424756
- Author
- Phelps-Roper, Megan, 1986- author.
- Title
- Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church / Megan Phelps-Roper.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029519628
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1711