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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. ....
As we have as brave adoptive parents who dared to speak out. agencies are threatened and a has rad and sued by adoption agencies. it starts at the state level with better regulation of adoption agencies and there must be transparency where the sums of money are going. where the money is going. katherine, i felt like part of this as i was reading this, this is the other thing that kept feeling like slavery to me. somebody is making a lot of money off of this process. right. international adoptions are hugely expensive. on average, they re about $30,000. sometimes it ranges up to even $60,000. it s not as though that money is going in one lump sum to any one person or any one agency. it s broken down into different parts. but agencies depend on these fees in order to stay in business. when countries tighten their regulations, you see agencies going out of business. that happened just in they jump countries. and if they can t find a country with enough adoptable ....
good morning. i m melissa harris-perry. if you are a person who cares about your health, then eating right is at the top of your list. think for the 1990 nutrition labeling and education act, any food in a package must have labeling consistent with health and human services definition. so the label ons bag of chips. honestly, it tells me, girl, don t even think about it. at least that s my translation. and on this bag of cookies, yeah, it also tells me that even though i might like to eat the whole thing, it is not going to make up for nutritionally balanced meal. reading labels is what a responsible consumer does. but what if there are no labels. take this apple for instance. i mean, it seems perfectly fine, nutritious. that s what an apple is supposed to be. it grew on a tree. it s anapple, for goodness sake. i don t need a label. i know what it is. maybe i do need a label because sometimes an apple is more than meets the eye. when it comes to our food, even if it i ....
comparable to the islamist movement abroad and there s a lot in the u.s. military too. next month s event, this is the first tuesday in may, we re going to have katherine joyce come and talk about her book quiverful, which is about christianist ideology, you know, their views of marriage in sort of old testament terms and so on so that should be extremely interesting. you re all welcomed to come to that as well. getting back tonight, you can get a copy of his book up front. he ll be glad to sign it for you. thank you all for coming and let me thank our esteemed guest for his participation. [applause] for more on the author on his book why do you kill, go to whydoyoukillzaid.com. july 4th on book tv discover an unfamiliar side of our nation s first president as we re live from george washington s mount vernon estate with public radio matthew algeo cover the road that harry truman and his bess took a trip from new york city from independence without security. it bro ....