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First review for The Child Catchers

Posted on February 19, 2013 · Add Comment

I’m so honored and excited to share that The Child Catchers received a starred review from The Kirkus Reviews:

Journalist and Religion Dispatches associate editor Joyce (Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, 2009) broadens the understanding of adoption’s conundrums, not only within the United States, but also internationally, with deep investigations of children from Liberia, Ethiopia, [...]

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Blurbs Are In…

Posted on February 12, 2013 · Add Comment

The blurbs are in for The Child Catchers. Kind words from some of my favorite writers:

“The Child Catchers takes us for a fast and frightening ride down a road to hell that’s paved with ‘good intentions,’ willful ignorance, and outright deception. The facts, presented here with care and fair-mindedness, are terrifying. And Joyce’s analysis, [...]

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Women Who Want to Be Women

Posted on January 15, 2013 · Add Comment

I have a new piece in this month’s Women’s Review of Books, reviewing Nancy L. Cohen’s fascinating recent book, Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America.

Reading Nancy Cohen’s Delirium in the same week as the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, [...]

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Beyond Principled Duplicity: The Catholic Church, Condoms & HIV/AIDS in Africa

Posted on November 16, 2012 · Add Comment
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New story at Conscience magazine:

In 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI opened the door to approve condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV, he opened it just a crack, in a statement so laden with conditions and insult that it was hard to tell whether this was the groundbreaking news [...]

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Ottar magazine

Posted on June 15, 2012 · Add Comment

New story on abortion and contraception politics in the U.S. in Ottar magazine – Swedish print only

“Plötsligt är du bara omringad”

På kort tid har USA:s kristna höger flyttat fram sina positioner och argument som nyss var extrema tillhör plötsligt den politiska mittfåran. Författaren Kathryn Joyce tar temperaturen på det amerikanska kulturkriget.

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Violence of the Lambs The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

Posted on June 6, 2012 · Add Comment

New story at Religion Dispatches:

When Father Norman Weslin, founder and head of the notorious anti-abortion “rescue” group Lambs of Christ, died on May 16, the small handful of remembrances that were sent out in anti-choice circles reflected where he’d stood on the spectrum of the “pro-life” movement: an extremist who lived in [...]

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“One of Us” Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

Posted on April 2, 2012 · Add Comment

New story at Religion Dispatches:

“Seven kids! Seven kids!” one woman exclaimed at a Rick Santorum rally in Louisiana on March 21, when organizers asked people to say what they liked most about the ultra-conservative Catholic, homeschooling presidential candidate.

Two days earlier, the 19-child Duggar family, famous for their reality TV show about [...]

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Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

Posted on March 19, 2012 · Add Comment

New story at Religion Dispatches: Victims’ advocacy group’s national director speaks to RD about a flurry of subpoenas, and fears of ongoing harassment

In October, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the oldest, largest, and most visible peer counseling group for victims of clergy sex abuse in any denomination, received [...]

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Adoption Inc.

Posted on December 21, 2011 · Add Comment

New story at The Atlantic:

In 2008, a 38-year old Oklahoma nurse whom I’ll call Kelly adopted an eight-year old girl, “Mary,” from Ethiopia. It was the second adoption for Kelly, following one from Guatemala. She’d sought out a child from Ethiopia in the hopes of avoiding some of the ethical [...]

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Horror Stories From Tough-Love Teen Homes

Posted on August 15, 2011 · Add Comment

New story from Mother Jones:

ONE DAY LAST NOVEMBER, a group of teenage girls dressed in long khaki skirts and modest blouses stepped onto the stage at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church in Maryland where Jeannie Marie (a military spouse who asked that her last name not be used) attended [...]

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