BY MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER, MATTHEW BOLL, ANDY MILLS, SARAH HEPOLAJULY 15, 2026
This is the Bible story that would eventually lead Megan Phelps-Roper to leave everything she knew behind.
Jesus is tested. A woman is accused and sentenced to die. And a now-famous phrase enters the lexicon — one Megan had an answer for, ready to go, every time a stranger threw it at her on the picket line.
But this story — one she’d known her whole life, one she could recite without thinking — would eventually turn into a mirror. And reflect back an image she didn't recognize.
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