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adoption, american evangelicals have an outside-sized role in overseas adoption. reportedly of some 200 accredited adoption agencies listed with the state department, 50 agencies including some of largest are explicitly christian and evangelical. katherine joyce lays out the global reach of these agencies in her new book, the child catchers, rescue, trafficking and the new gospel of adoption. she joins me now. thank you for being here. thank you so much, melissa. talk to me. what is orphan theology? in the last few years what you started to see at a lot of churches was an emphasis on the idea that christians really had to get involved in orphan care and adoption and they were saying that this is a way that adoption is mirroring the christian salvation experience. just as god adopts christians, christian parents need to go and adopt children.