After she expresses her doubts, she is ostracized from her family. But then, as a young adult, in part due to thoughtful interactions on Twitter where she spars with critics of her church but also “relished confounding expectations,” her faith begins to unravel. Convinced by the church’s teachings about scripture and sin, Phelps-Roper recounts spending her adolescence calling America to repentance and defending the views of the Westboro Baptist Church vociferously on Twitter. service members and widely decried as a hate group. She explores her early years immersed in the insular community of her family’s church, a Kansas-based denomination known for picketing funerals of U.S. Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, charts her journey from childhood church devotee to adult skeptic in her excellent debut memoir.
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