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Kathryn Joyce

Kathryn Joyce is the author of The Child Catchers (PublicAffairs, 2013) and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Beacon, 2009).

Seriously?

Worst Adoption Therapy in the World

The family in Arkansas that perhaps thought their adopted daughters were possessed were following controversial practices to force adoptees to submit to their new parents’ wills.

Kathryn Joyce

NOT WELCOME

The Coming Crackdown on Mormon Liberals

Feminists, gays and liberals are finding no welcome in the Mormon Church.

Kathryn Joyce

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New Era

The End of Mormon Adoption

The LDS-owned adoption agency that exerted powerful influence on national adoption policy is closing its doors, highlighting hard times for the adoption industry nationwide.

Kathryn Joyce

Gay Christian Students Fight Back

As more students come out at evangelical colleges, administrators are cracking down on campus groups and faculty who give them support. A new advocacy group wants to change that.

Kathryn Joyce

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The Evangelical Adoption Campaign

As Bill Clinton works to spring U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti, the case highlights a new evangelical strategy: Adopt Third World babies and convert them.

Kathryn Joyce

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