Reclaiming Adoption

Author : Dan Cruver,John Piper,Scotty Smith
Publisher : Cruciform Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781936760053

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Reclaiming Adoption by Dan Cruver,John Piper,Scotty Smith Pdf

Delight in God's delight in you. One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. This book is premised on the belief that behind the Parable of the Prodigal Son(s) is Scripture's teaching on adoption. The story of the Bible is that God the Father sent his only true and eternal Son on a mission, and that mission was to bring many wayward and rebellious sons home to glory (Hebrews 2:10) in order to adopt them into his family. That is the Story behind the story of the Prodigal Sons. If Christians learn to first think about their adoption by God, and only then about the adoption of children, they will enjoy deeper communion with the God who is love, and experience greater missional engagement with the pain and suffering of this world. Reclaiming Adoption can transform the way you view and live in this world for the glory of God and the good of our world's most needy.

Author : Melanie Springer Mock,Martha Kalnin Diede,Jeremiah Webster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630875190

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The Spirit of Adoption by Melanie Springer Mock,Martha Kalnin Diede,Jeremiah Webster Pdf

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 : John Ensor
Publisher : Cruciform Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781936760312

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Innocent Blood by John Ensor Pdf

The gospel of Christ is the gospel of life, and the Christian's defining reality. Yet the shedding of innocent blood, primarily through abortion, has now marked an entire generation. Innocent Blood explores a series of questions so as to reveal vital connections between the gospel and the call to defend the unborn. These questions include: What does the Bible mean when it says that "life is in the blood"? What does the Bible say about blood-guilt? How is it that we are all stained by it and accountable for it even though few of us have taken a human life? What remedy does God provide for the guilt of shedding innocent blood? What are we to do when confronted with the shedding of innocent blood, and where does our courage to take action come from? What is the link between protecting the innocent and proclaiming good news to the guilty? Not a book on social issues per se, nor a book on missions, Innocent Blood integrates the two and calls us to courageously challenge the powers of death with the gospel of life.

Author : Lisa C Qualls,Melissa Corkum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 9798987764312

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Reclaim Compassion by Lisa C Qualls,Melissa Corkum Pdf

Shed your shame. Renew your hope. Rediscover the parent you know you can be. Is your adoption journey turning out differently than you imagined? You had so much love to give, but now you feel ashamed and bewildered by your lack of compassion. You may be experiencing blocked care-a self-protective mechanism in your nervous system that makes it difficult to connect with your child and maintain compassion. When it happens, it's like your heart seems to have left the relationship. But the good news is you are not a bad parent. You can heal from blocked care, and compassion can be rekindled in your heart. Written by two adoptive parents who have overcome blocked care, Reclaim Compassion answers the questions, "How did this happen?" and "Will it ever get better?" You'll recognize yourself in the honest stories from the authors and other parents and come to realize that you are not alone. Rooted in faith and backed by neuroscience, this practical and powerful guide offers a simple step-by-step process for reclaiming compassion for your child and yourself. "Lisa and Melissa's holistic-brain, body, and spirit-approach to understanding and overcoming blocked care will lead you to personal healing and meaningful connection with your children. Every foster and adoptive parent should read this book!" Jamie Finn, author of Foster the Family, Director, Foster the Family "Reclaim Compassion practically and compassionately addresses part of parenting that no one wants to talk about. Lisa C. Qualls and Melissa Corkum are the go-to experts on blocked care, and this book is proof. No one understands it better than they do. We can't recommend this book enough!" Mike and Kristin Berry, hosts of The Honestly Adoption Podcast, coauthors of Securely Attached Lisa C. Qualls and Melissa Corkum serve thousands of adoptive parents by providing post-adoption support through their podcast, books, speaking, and coaching. To learn more, find Lisa and Melissa at www.reclaimcompassion.com

Author : Laura Christianson
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736920001

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The Adoption Decision by Laura Christianson Pdf

In North America, more and more families are adding members through adoption. And there are more ways to adopt--and kinds of adoption--than ever. This quick-start resource will help prospective parents consider key emotional and spiritual issues up front...before they plunge into the near-overwhelming mass of details and start to run into roadblocks, even dead ends. Laura Christianson--an adoption educator and mentor, and an adoptive mom herself--brings her experience and knowledge to address unspoken but crucial questions about... loving an adopted child extended family's reaction expenses openness in adoption the role of birth parents physical disabilities emotional/behavioral challenges racial and cultural prejudices Recounting real-life miracles and mishaps of adoptive families, the author will help prospective parents--and their friends and family members--think through adoption's challenges and joys, and confidently move forward from a firm emotional and spiritual footing.

Author : E. Wayne Carp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780472024636

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Adoption in America by E. Wayne Carp Pdf

"Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption." ---Choice "Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution." ---Library Journal "Well-written and accessible . . . showcases the wide-ranging scholarship underway on the history of adoption." ---Adoptive Families "[T]his volume is a significant contribution to the literature and can serve as a catalyst for further research." ---Social Service Review Adoption affects an estimated 60 percent of Americans, but despite its pervasiveness, this social institution has been little examined and poorly understood. Adoption in America gathers essays on the history of adoptions and orphanages in the United States. Offering provocative interpretations of a variety of issues, including antebellum adoption and orphanages; changing conceptions of adoption in late-nineteenth-century novels; Progressive Era reform and adoptive mothers; the politics of "matching" adoptive parents with children; the radical effect of World War II on adoption practices; religion and the reform of adoption; and the construction of birth mother and adoptee identities, the essays in Adoption in America will be debated for many years to come.

Author : Jonathan Holmes
Publisher : Cruciform Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781936760978

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The Company We Keep by Jonathan Holmes Pdf

Friendship. This one word can mean a hundred different things to each person. We all want friends, but often struggle to develop meaningful friendships. Does the Bible speak to and present a vision and theology of biblical friendship? Is there anything unique about biblical friendship?

Author : Brian Borgman
Publisher : Cruciform Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781936760947

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After They Are Yours by Brian Borgman Pdf

Adoption offers a powerful testimony of grace in a world of unwanted pregnancies and on demand abortion. But no one said adoption is easy. As an adoptive parent and pastor, who has counseled many adoptive parents, Brian Borgman knows there is another side to adoption that we are often reluctant to talk about. Parenting is always a challenge, but parenting an adopted child can have some special challenges. Adoptive parents can experience much heartache and even guilt with their adopted children. Many suffer in silence. Borgman writes with a burden to minister to those who are struggling. After They Are Yours: The Grace and Grit of Adoption talks transparently and redemptively about the often unspoken problems adoptive parents face. Combining personal experience, biblical wisdom and a heart for people, Borgman recalls the humbling and difficult lessons God has taught him and his wife. This is not a success story, rather it’s a story of struggles and failures set in the broader context of a God who is gracious and continually teaches us the meaning of adoption.

Author : Mark Ellingsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620320761

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Reclaiming Our Roots, Volume I by Mark Ellingsen Pdf

Reclaiming Our Roots, the most inclusive church history textbook on the market today, pays special attention to such matters as Christianity in the southern hemisphere, Eastern Orthodoxy, the church among minority cultures in North America, and the role of women in church history. It includes not just names, dates, and events in church history, but also sophisticated theological analyses of the issues that have made history, making it useable as a text for both history of Christian thought as well as introduction to church history courses. Readers are exposed to a variety of credible, scholarly interpretations of issues, events, and major figures, and encouraged to make their own judgments based upon the evidence and with the help of suggested primary source readings. Leading questions that open doors for group discussion and individual reflection on the core issues follow each section.

Author : Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625646750

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Making Sense of Motherhood by Beth M. Stovell Pdf

Motherhood provides a crucial place for exploring human life and its meaning. Within motherhood lies a deep tension between the pain, crisis, and association with death in motherhood and the joy, transformation, and life in motherhood. Few metaphors in Scripture (or in life) stand so firmly between life and death, love and loss, and joy and deep pain. After all, motherhood's meaning in part comes again and again at these crucial crossroads. Thus, motherhood has powerful implications for our biblical and theological understanding. Bringing together Jewish and ecumenical Christian scholars from North America, Oceania, and South America, this edited volume provides biblical and theological perspectives on understanding motherhood. The authors reflect upon a selection of biblical texts, systematic theologians, and Christian spiritual traditions to dialogue with the experience of maternity in its diverse manifestations. The purpose of the book is to provide essays that--through these biblical and theological lenses--engage the question of motherhood today, from the experience of pregnancy and birth, to raising children, to losing children and coping with grief. In this way, this volume helps to "make sense" of the complexity of motherhood.

Author : Alexandra Harmon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745879

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Reclaiming the Reservation by Alexandra Harmon Pdf

In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation that had big implications for Indian tribes’ place in the American political system. Tribal governments had long sought to manage affairs in their territories, and their bid for all-inclusive reservation jurisdiction was an important, bold move, driven by deeply rooted local histories as well as pan-Indian activism. They believed federal law supported their case. In a 1978 decision that reverberated across Indian country and beyond, the Supreme Court struck a blow to their efforts by ruling in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe that non-Indians were not subject to tribal prosecution for criminal offenses. The court cited two centuries of US legal history to justify their decision but relied solely on the interpretations of non-Indians. In Reclaiming the Reservation, Alexandra Harmon delves into Quinault, Suquamish, and pan-tribal histories to illuminate the roots of Indians’ claim of regulatory power in their reserved homelands. She considers the promises and perils of relying on the US legal system to address the damage caused by colonial dispossession. She also shows how tribes have responded since 1978, seeking and often finding new ways to protect their interests and assert their sovereignty. Reclaiming the Reservation is the 2020 winner of the Robert G. Athearn Prize for a published book on the twentieth-century American West, presented by the Western History Association.

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
Page : 4931 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Essential 25000 English-Haitian Creole Law Dictionary by Nam H Nguyen Pdf

a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of Law words with definitions. This eBook is an easyto- understand guide to Law terms for anyone anyways at any time. yon gwo resous nenpòt kote ou ale; li se yon zouti fasil ki gen jis mo yo ou vle ak bezwen! Diksyonè a tout antye se yon lis alfabetik nan mo Lwa ak definisyon. Ebook sa a se yon fasilite-konprann gid sou tèm lwa pou nenpòt moun nenpòt fason a nenpòt ki lè.

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
Page : 4904 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Essential 25000 English-Estonian Law Dictionary by Nam H Nguyen Pdf

a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of Law words with definitions. This eBook is an easyto- understand guide to Law terms for anyone anyways at any time. suurepärane ressurss kus iganes sa lähed; see on lihtsalt tööriist, millel on just sõnad, mida soovite ja vajate! Kogu sõnastik on tähemärkide tähestikuline loend. See e-raamat on lihtsalt seadusega ette nähtud juhised kellelegi igal ajal igal ajal.

Author : Mark C. Jerng
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Adoption in literature
ISBN : 9781452915005

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Claiming Others by Mark C. Jerng Pdf

Author : Risa Cromer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781479818594

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Conceiving Christian America by Risa Cromer Pdf

"An insider's look at a powerful social movement that aims to transform how we think about frozen human embryos, reproductive politics, and the future of the nation"--