{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-adoption-writers-on-religion-adoption-faith-and-more-paperback","title":"The Spirit of Adoption: Writers on Religion, Adoption, Faith, and More - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelanie Springer Mock\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMartha Kalnin Diede\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJeremiah Webster\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelanie Springer Mock is a Professor of English at George Fox University. She is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eJust Moms\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Martha Kalnin Diede is a Professor and Chair of English at Northwest University, Kirkland, Washington. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Knowledgeable Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jeremiah Webster is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwest University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eParadise in The Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799417225504,"sku":"9781625640765","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4be4a8144f61ecb24c57d185cd030f40.webp?v=1780814089","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-spirit-of-adoption-writers-on-religion-adoption-faith-and-more-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}