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Radio: Creating a Family

Posted on July 3, 2013 · Add Comment

In early July, I spoke with Dawn Davenport, author of the prominent adoption blog Creating a Family, about The Child Catchers for her hour-long podcast. Listen to the entire show here.

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HuffPo Religion: The Problem With the Christian Adoption Movement

Posted on June 2, 2013 · Add Comment

I have a new op-ed up at Huffington Post Religion:

Several weeks ago, in honor of “Birthmothers’ Day,” the pre-Mother’s Day celebration of women who relinquish children for adoption, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Fox News analyst Nina Easton. In it, Easton, an adoptive mother, called for a shift in language that would recast [...]

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The Child Catchers in the New York Times

Posted on June 1, 2013 · Add Comment

NYT religion beat journalist Erik Eckholm covers the Christian adoption movement in today’s New York Times, including an appearance by David Smolin and a mention of The Child Catchers.

As a girl, Danna Hopkins dreamed of having 20 children. Today, she and her husband, Brian, the [...]

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Podcast: Greed for Ilm

Posted on May 27, 2013 · Add Comment

In May I spoke with Walid Darab, creator of the podcast Greed for Ilm (“Greed for Knowledge”), which reaches more than 360,000 listeners in North Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia, and other parts of Asia as well as here in the  United States. We had a long and winding conversation about The Child Catchers, adoption, women’s rights [...]

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Review: Library Journal This exemplary study deserves a wide audience among all readers involved with adoption

Posted on May 21, 2013 · Add Comment

New review from Library Journal (June 1 issue):

“This intricate investigation of adoption ethics and religion is an incisive, evenhanded corrective to the view of child adoption as benign and salvific. Journalist Joyce (associate editor, Religion Dispatches; Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement) examines the rise of adoption as a practice and cause among American [...]

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Review: First Mother Forum

Posted on May 20, 2013 · Add Comment

New review at First Mother Forum:

The Child Catchers “is an important voice for adoption reform and should be read by those who shape adoption policy and those considering adopting from abroad or donating to an international adoption agency or foreign orphanage. It’s laden with facts and figures, but is never dull. FMF [...]

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The Lost Daughters Discuss The Child Catchers: Roundtable Series

Posted on May 19, 2013 · Add Comment

There’s a very interesting, multi-part roundtable discussion of the book happening at Lost Daughters. There, a group of adopted women, some of whom are also adoptive parents, are discussing their reactions to The Child Catchers, informed by deep personal experience.

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Interview: NPR’s Interfaith Voices Saving Orphans that Don't Need to be Saved

Posted on May 18, 2013 · Add Comment

I discussed the Child Catchers with NPR’s Interfaith Voices. Jedd Medefind of the Christian Alliance for Orphans was also interviewed for a response. Listen to the whole thing here.

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Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption

Posted on May 17, 2013 · Add Comment

A very thoughtful and powerful piece from Melanie Springer Mock at The Nation:

“If anything, The Child Catchers challenges evangelicals to interrogate their agencies, ministries, and ideologies about adoption, leading the charge to reform an industry where corruption has been legion. That way, in the future, families will not live with the uncertainty many [...]

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Interview: Killing the Buddha Truth-telling in Vulgaria

Posted on May 16, 2013 · Add Comment

I discuss The Child Catchers with my favorite Buddha-killers at KTB!

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