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NCR: Is the “gospel of adoption” always good news?

Posted on April 24, 2013 · Add Comment

Heidi Schlumpf at the National Catholic Reporter writes, in a very thoughtful, personally-informed piece, that “…adoption, even in the best of circumstances, involves tremendous loss and should analyzed carefully. While it can be an extremely life-giving way to build a family, there are other ways to address world poverty. These questions and concerns [...]

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Interview: Rileys in Uganda/ ReUnite

Posted on April 23, 2013 · Add Comment

I had the great privilege to talk about the book with Mark and Keren Riley of ReUnite Uganda, an incredible family preservation organization in Uganda.

I know that some in the ‘pro-adoption’ movement will dismiss some of the stories in ‘catchers’ as extreme and not representative of the ‘greater good’ of international adoption, [...]
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Excerpt: The Purpose-Driven Nation

Posted on April 22, 2013 · Add Comment

I’m excited to have a new excerpt from The Child Catchers up at Guernica magazine.

In 2005, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, a controversial military leader who helped end the country’s 1994 genocide, invited Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren to implement in Rwanda the lessons of his best-selling book, The Purpose Driven Life. Warren’s [...]

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Audio Interview: RH Reality Check

Posted on April 22, 2013 · Add Comment

Hear me and Amanda Marcotte discuss The Child Catchers, adoption and women’s rights at RH Reality Check’s podcast. Listen here.

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Interview: Buzzfeed

Posted on April 19, 2013 · Add Comment

I had a fascinating conversation with Jill Filipovic on The Child Catchers and the orphan crisis, up now at Buzzfeed.

A big reason Christians are adopting is because in a lot of Evangelical churches the idea of the “orphan crisis” is compelling a huge amount of advocacy. That’s the idea, commonly held in these churches, [...]

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Video: Bloggingheads TV

Posted on April 18, 2013 · Add Comment

I spoke with journalist Sarah Posner of “The Posner Show” about my new book on Bloggingheads TV. Watch here.

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Radio: Fresh Air

Posted on April 16, 2013 · Add Comment

I was on Fresh Air today to discuss The Child Catchers and “How Evangelical Christians Are Preaching The New Gospel Of Adoption”. Listen to the full show here.

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Orphan Fever

Posted on April 15, 2013 · Add Comment

The first excerpt from The Child Catchers was published today by Mother Jones.

IN 2005 a Tennessee housepainter in his 30s, arrived at Daniel Hoover Children’s Village, an orphanage outside Monrovia, Liberia. He’d come to adopt three children, but ended up with four: five-year-old Cherish; her nine-year-old brother, Isaiah; their 13-year-old [...]

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Radio: Beyond the Pale

Posted on April 14, 2013 · Add Comment

Listen to a new interview on The Child Catchers with investigative journalist Kiera Feldman at Beyond the Pale on WBAI.

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Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight Over Abortion

Posted on April 6, 2013 · Add Comment

My new story, on the re-opening of Wichita’s abortion clinic, is up at Religion Dispatches:

In mid-February, on the first day of lent, Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, held a small, quiet service, with a female and male pastoral team preaching about a gentle God who is slow to anger and quick [...]

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