With Strange Fire

Category: Evangelical Adoption

  • Adoptees: Human and Animal

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on May 12, 2014 A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking…

  • Orphan Fever

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 16, 2014 Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration. Surely you remember not too many years ago…

  • Disposable Children

    We need to talk today about a very uncomfortable sticky wicket. This morning my husband was sent a reaction TikTok to a 2016 story on “60 Minutes” Australia on adoption rehoming that was claiming to be recent. So recent that our former hometown newspaper The Culpeper Star-Exponent did an article on the reaction video without…