What Megan Phelps-Roper’s departure from Westboro Baptist teaches us about the strange way of grace.
As a Christian, there’s not much more important to me than Christ and the Church. And so there’s not much that frustrates or angers me more than when those who identify as Christians as I do cast an unflattering light on our faith. Every stiffed waitress, scammed congregation and abused child breaks my heart—not only because of the injustice, but because of the distance these actions create between man and God. For every time I tell my story, it feels like there are three other stories directly contradicting what I'm claiming to believe and represent.