Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

Presented By
Megan Phelps-Roper

Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch of the notoriously inflammatory Topeka, Kansas, church, she eventually became its voice on Twitter and one of the congregation’s most visible spokespersons. She was, in her words, “all in” … until doubt arose. Further pause came from a series of thoughtful exchanges with an attorney who would become her husband, and she broke from the church in November 2012.

Phelps-Roper details her experiences in a discussion of her new memoir Unfollow. It offers an intimate, even-handed look at the Westboro church and her decision to stand against the beliefs and people she’d held dearest.