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by Melanie Springer Mock (Editor), Martha Kalnin Diede (Editor), Jeremiah Webster (Editor)
The Spirit of Adoption explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and joy. Rather than hearing from experts in adoption, this collection uses the narratives of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees themselves, bearing witness to the ways adoption shapes its participants' spiritual lives. By allowing others to narrate their spiritual journeys through adoption, we hope to proclaim that adoption can be a wonderful, powerful, hopeful experience, and one that is difficult, painful, despairing--and that these paradoxes of adoption might be held together in God's hand.
Author Biography
Melanie Springer Mock is a Professor of English at George Fox University. She is the author most recently of Just Moms (2011).
Martha Kalnin Diede is a Professor and Chair of English at Northwest University, Kirkland, Washington. She is the author of Shakespeare's Knowledgeable Body (2008). Jeremiah Webster is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwest University. He is the author of Paradise in The Waste Land (2013).
