Book Keeper
Megan Phelps-Roper, who grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, revisits the Bible years after leaving her faith. Now a mother, she explores the scriptures not to reclaim belief but to question what is worth preserving from her religious past.
Episodes
EP 7: Casting the First Stone
In one of his most famous lessons, Jesus holds up a mirror to a crowd of judgmental men who are determined to punish the guilty. Two thousand years later, another Jewish man does the same to our host — and shatters her prison of belief.
RESOURCES:
The Gospel of John — Chapter 8
CREDITS:
This episode of Book Keeper was produced by Matthew Boll, with editing by Andy Mills and Sarah Hepola. It is
EP 6: The Hatchetman
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Saul of Tarsus helped hunt down the earliest followers of Jesus. Then he became one of them. The story isn’t just Christianity’s greatest conversion — it’s a challenge to our instinctual belief that we can guess someone’s trajectory based on who they’ve always been.
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EP 5: David & Goliath
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David and Goliath has become the world’s favorite underdog story, but its real power isn’t that a young man defeats a giant. It’s what the story has to teach us about courage and cowardice — and how bravery can be as contagious as fear.
RESOURCES: The First Book of Samuel — Chapte
EP 4: The Woman at the Door
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Somehow, one of the darkest stories in the entire Bible is also one of its least known. This is that story. But it’s also the story that first forced our host, Megan Phelps-Roper, to ask whether her own moral instincts deserved to be heard, and whether doubt could sometimes be an act of
EP 3: The Javelin, the Dagger, & the Stake
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Three of the Bible’s celebrated heroes don’t preach. They slaughter. What do their bloody stories reveal about justice, vengeance, and one of humanity’s most dangerous temptations: believing we know exactly who deserves to die?
RESOURCES:Phinehas: The Book of Numbers — Chapter 25Ehud: Th
EP 2: The Good Samaritan
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Jesus is complicated. He’s the man who said turn the other cheek — and the man who said he came not to bring peace, but a sword. The man who dined with outcasts and sinners — and the man who promised to set a daughter against her mother. Today, a story he told about a man who is beaten, ro
EP 1: The Teenage Dreamer
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In our first episode of this series, host Megan Phelps-Roper, more than 10 years after leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, returns to the Bible. Even though she is no longer what most would consider a “believer,” she wants to explore what ancient wisdom still lives in these stories. And sh
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