“I Don’t Love This Religion Anymore”: A Conversation With Zach Phelps-Roper
JUNE 6, 2014 | BY: BEN COREY -- It doesn’t get more “formerly fundie” than leaving Westboro Baptist Church. And that's exactly what Zach Phelps-Roper...
The Problem of Fred Phelps
MAR 20, 2014 | BY: BRETT ANDERSON -- I was hoping to be able to get something out on this before Fred Phelps died, which...
Why I Get Credit Card Applications for FredPhelpsFuneral.com
MAR 17, 2014 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- January 7, 2011, I sent my husband an email at work: “Hey, will you send me an...
Fred Phelps: Sifting Through His Tragic Legacy
MAR 17, 2014 | BY: KATHY VESTAL -- According to a Twitter post by Fred Phelps son Nathan, the 84-year-old patriarch of Topeka’s infamous...
The Disturbing Trend of Christian Self-Deprecation
JUNE 17, 2013 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- Christians use self-deprecation as a defense mechanism, a form of social disparagement used...
Another Baptist for Marriage Equality
BY: REV. JILL MCCRORY -- Tuesday morning I was walking from the Interfaith Service for Love and Justice toward the Supreme Court...
Gracious Nonconformity
Source: The Naked Pastor
As followers of Jesus we are to be different from others. We are to be, as a biblically derived phrase puts it, “in the world but not of the world” (John 15:19; 17:14). Ou...
The Witness of the "Sons of Hell"
Photo Used by Permission of Patty Akrouche
The 23rd chapter of Matthew is probably the harshest speech that Jesus ever gave. We don’t hear many sermons about it because Jesus was skewering the celebrity past...
Persecution and Epistemic Closure
Epistemic closure is a recently defined philosophical term that describes someone who is so thoroughly encased in the echo chamber of their own ideology that they are completely immune to considering other view...
Meet Me at Fred Phelps Funeral
JAN 21, 2011 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- The first time I heard of Fred Phelps was during media coverage of the 1998 funeral for Matthew...