The Spirit of Adoption

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.