Welcome.   

My name is Nate Phelps.  I am one of the estranged children of Pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church.  I am assuming that you know about my father and his church if you have found your way to this site.  

Since my father began his latest assault on some segment of the world in 1991, I have been approached from time to time, and asked to provide my perspective on this story.  I have obliged, and a few more people are made aware of the dark, or should I say darker, side of my father.  

In October of 2008 a young man named Trevor Melanson climbed into my cab in Cranbrook, British Columbia.  As I drove him to the airport he talked about his activities as a journalism student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.  Suddenly he was explaining to me about a program on the BBC about a small, radical church in Topeka, Kansas.  The look of stunned confusion on his face, when I told him that was my family, will stay with me for a long time.  That chance meeting turned into an award winning article on the UBC newspaper website called “Running From Hell”.  That article can now be found at: http://thetyee.ca/Life/2009/10/07/PreacherPhelps/

Within a month I received an offer to come tell me story to a live audience at the American Atheist Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.  Following that event I was urged to get my speech on line so more people could be exposed to this story.  

We opened this site in June of 2009 and in early December hit the milestone of 10,000 unique visitors.  

I can’t say what tomorrow will bring, but I continue to work on finding a publisher for the book I am writing, and more offers are coming in for me to tell my story.  For now I am blogging from time to time and I will continue to make myself available to inform the world about who my father really is and offer hope and some small amount of healing for the thousands of people out there who have suffered similarly from religious extremism.  

Thank you for coming.  Please feel free to write to me if you have any questions or comments.  

Nate Phelps

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For those of you who suffer or who have suffered the effects of being raised in a fundamentalist environment, please join myself and Brother Richard at our Support group, "Life After Christian Fundamentalism"


To contact Nate Phelps please direct your email to:

natephelps at natephelps dot com