More than a decade after leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper is returning to the Bible. Not to reclaim her old beliefs or to poke holes in what others believe, but to ask: What wisdom in these ancient stories is worth keeping? What lessons are here that we should learn from and not leave behind?
This is a series about our inheritance — about taking seriously the stories our ancestors passed down for generations, and about grappling with what we want to pass down to the next generation.
For this first episode, Megan tells the story of Joseph — found in the Book of Genesis, Chapters 37 to 45 — and sees echoes of her own struggles and hopes.
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