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Reflector

The Hallelujah

Reflector

Longview

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After leaving the church that both defined and destroyed her family, Megan Phelps-Roper turned away from the Bible. In this episode, she returns to one of its dark tales to ask what still endures when belief is gone – and why some stories refuse to let us go. CREDITS: This episode of Reflector was written by Megan Phelps-Roper and produced by Andy Mills and Matthew Boll Music for this episode was composed by Cobey Bienert⁠⁠ The Hallelujah artwork by ⁠⁠Jacob Boll⁠⁠ To become a Longview subscriber you can visit us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our sponsor Ground News. You can visit them here to learn more: ⁠GROUND.NEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:02.0

It's an unusual name.

0:03.0

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:07.0

What game are we playing today?

0:09.0

Discover the origins.

0:10.0

It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.

0:12.0

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.0

There has been a break-in.

0:17.0

Astoned. You should be a detective.

0:19.0

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

0:22.5

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

0:25.9

Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.

0:36.2

Hello and welcome back to Reflector. I'm Andy Mills. And right now our team has a number of new stories in the works. We've got new series, new deep dives, new reported pieces, all coming your way in 2026. But for today, we wanted to share something different.

0:57.0

This is a bit of a year-in special, but it's also somewhat of an experiment. And it comes to us

1:03.8

from our dear friend and our colleague, Megan Phelps Roper.

1:08.4

Megan, do you think it's right to introduce you as a famous former fundamentalist or maybe a

1:13.8

famous ex-extremist?

1:15.7

I would say infamous, rather than.

1:17.1

Infamous, yes.

1:19.1

Yes.

1:20.3

I grew up in a tiny church called Westboro Baptist Church that became known internationally

1:26.9

for its daily public protests

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