As with Westboro’s decision to shift our focus to military funeral pickets, our new imprecatory prayers caused me significant consternation—but I had trouble discerning its root. King David had plainly made these prayers about his enemies, and God had called David a man after mine own heart. Even Jesus Himself had promised vengeance to His people: And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Clearly, our imprecatory prayers were consistent with Scripture. But if that was true, why did they unsettle me so?
