Dr. Kristen Kirkland
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impacts of poverty.
And that's crazy to me that we're calling that pure religion.
So the title of my book is Orphan Sunday is the Worst.
It's coming out spring 2028.
We're going to debunk.
So the way that the word adoption is used is actually meant to be a metaphor for other things.
I get to cite the work of Dr. Erin Heim, who is also she's a theologian, but she's also an adoptee.
And she debunks a lot of that use of and so the ways we use those verses are totally out of context.
kind of like christians tend to do with other things like you know um our homophobia and christianity comes from those cherry picking tendencies too and so i think if we can look at the verses for what they actually say and kind of correct the theology we'll see that um those orphans and widows are meant to be taken care of together as a dyad so that verse does not mean what we think it means if i can
mm-hmm absolutely and to then call it a reflection of the gospel is is that really what is a reflection of your core beliefs like I I don't know it's interesting that you you mentioned like how common it is for adoptees to have to reckon with both of faith stuff and how adoption came together I like to call my faith deconstruction a double deconstruction because I could not have reckoned with what my core beliefs were on the faith side without also
looking at adoption and how entwined those things were it's god's plan you know it's what god meant for you to have and like when you juxtapose that with verses like i think it's psalm 139 about how you formed me in my mother's womb like did god form me in the wrong womb and then people had to fix it like all kinds of really confusing things are being taught to adoptees that again might not have been intentional but still had an impact
And that's why I think that's, yeah, we got to think about that.
I would love a little bit more of a long game and how we think about
the adoptee involved and and everyone involved in an adoption story.
I would love us to have a little more forethought in how are the things we're doing now and the things we're telling ourselves about what's happening in this story now, gonna look in 2030 50 years, and how's that going to impact even future generations?
Because one thing I've seen so much in the out of the fog world, adoptee discussions online, birth grant discussions online, like
it certainly has an impact bigger than I think anyone acknowledges when the story is first being, I guess, written when it comes to an adoption.
So I'd love to encourage a lot of foresight thinking about everyone else involved as well as how you're gonna feel about this in 30 years.
Everyone needs to read Relinquish.
Yeah, exactly.
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