Fred Phelps
Surviving or thriving? New film on Westboro Baptist doesn’t get it
By Hillel Gray — July 23, 2019
(RNS) — The filmmaker is often more interested in building solidarity with his audience against a mythic enemy than truly understanding his subject.
2014 in review: An unsettling year, with religion in a starring role
By Kevin Eckstrom — December 17, 2014
(RNS) Remember Bishop Bling? Mark Driscoll? Brittany Maynard? They all helped shape the top religion headlines of 2014.
COMMENTARY: Phelps touched on fears and anger many feel
By Tom Ehrich — March 25, 2014
(RNS) In his anti-gay message, Phelps touched on fears and angers that many people feel.
COMMENTARY: Grieving for Fred Phelps in Topeka
By Phil Griffin — March 21, 2014
TOPEKA, Kansas (RNS) When my partner died due to complications from AIDS in 1995, the Phelps people came to protest his funeral. I thought I was prepared.
Atheist Nate Phelps on his father: I mourn ‘the man he could have been’
By Kimberly Winston — March 21, 2014
(RNS) “My father was a man of action,” activist Nate Phelps said after his father's death, “and I implore us all to embrace that small portion of his faulty legacy by doing the same.”
ANALYSIS: Fred Phelps’ hateful legacy may be the opposite of all he intended
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 20, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The image of Christianity that Fred Phelps painted was a hateful, judgmental collection of rabble-rousers -- an image that, paradoxically, did more to help his targets than it advanced his message.
Fred Phelps dies, America tweets
By Kimberly Winston — March 20, 2014
(RNS) Fred Phelps' death lit up the Twitterverse. Here is a selection of tweets to mark the passing of perhaps the most hated pastor in America.
COMMENTARY: May God have mercy on Fred Phelps
By Amy Tracy — March 20, 2014
(RNS) I don’t like to think of Jesus with Fred Phelps through the hands and words of a hospice volunteer -- but that shows how far off the mark I am in the grace department. It’s a cause for prayer, for sure.
Phelps deathbed reports have foes keeping watch
By Jolie Lee — March 19, 2014
(RNS) While some post anti-Phelps comments on Facebook, at least one blogger is urging the LGBT community to be more charitable and "show love to the most unlovable person."
Fred Phelps nears death, as told in tweets
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — March 17, 2014
(RNS) Amid reports that the "God Hates Fags" founder is near death, the old-fashioned protestor is getting the instantaneous social media treatment.
White House says it can’t list Westboro Baptist as ‘hate group’
By Corrie Mitchell — July 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Support for White House petitions to label anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church as a "hate group" was strongest in Kansas and Newtown, Conn., according to data provided by the White House.
Fred Phelps’ son condemns Westboro’s plan to picket Newtown funerals
By Kimberly Winston — December 17, 2012
(RNS) The estranged son of a pastor famous for protesting the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims has condemned his family’s plans to picket funerals of shooting victims in Newtown, Conn., but says local leaders should "let them show up'' instead of trying to ban them. By Kimberly Winston.
Counter-protesters targeting Westboro Baptist Church
By Kellie Moore — July 23, 2012
(RNS) Thousands of people wearing red shirts gathered in downtown Columbia, Mo., in response to word of a planned protest by the Kansas-based group Westboro Baptist Church. By Kellie Kotraba.
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