The controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, claimed that Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday. File Photo by Bettina Nørgaard/Pixabay Aug. 6 (UPI) --The controversial Westboro ...

Susanne Opstal’s “Where We Belong,” one of 21 feature film projects selected as part of the IDFA Forum Pitches program, revolves around the director’s relationship with Grace Phelps-Roper, the ...

The so-called "church" — which is categorized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — turned to Twitter on Thursday (Aug. 30) to decry Dawson's appearance at the upcoming Y'allapalooza ...

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“Obey God, or you’re going to hell – the end!” The young woman picketing with the Westboro Baptist Church shouts into the camera. The person yelling at that protest was Megan Phelps-Roper, but you’d ...

On Super Bowl Sunday, members of Westboro Baptist Church — the Kansas-based hate group infamous for picketing everything from gay pride parades to the funerals of slain soldiers — intend to hold ...

Starting with Oregon in 1997, voters in nine states and the District of Columbia have approved "Death with Dignity" laws. Other state legislators are debating the issue or will be soon. The question ...

Then, Phelps-Roper joined Twitter at 23 years old—and learned that the beliefs she’d grown up treating as facts were fiction. Onstage at the Glamour Women of the Year Summit, she talked about publicly ...

(RNS) — No single congregation in America has had the kind of recognition, or notoriety, that the Westboro Baptist Church achieved in the 1990s under its controversial founder, Fred Phelps Sr.

"Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church" by Libby Phelps and Sara Stewart. Copyright 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing ...