I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper

What's it want to mature within a group of people who exult in demonizing … everybody else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares information of life inside America's most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this amazing talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization, along with some sharp ways we can discover how to effectively engage across ideological lines.

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