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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Comedy: God's Pottery - Adoption

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2010

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Christian folk music duo God's Pottery teach us an important lesson about adoption through the medium of song.

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0:00.0

It's The Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. You know, our show is called The Sound of Young America.

0:04.5

And well, we like to think of it as a show for people of all ages.

0:07.6

We also take very seriously our responsibility to the young people of this great country.

0:13.8

That's one of the reasons why it's such an honor to welcome to the show Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Small Child.

0:20.4

Together, as God's pottery, there are two of America's foremost Christian singer-songwriter, educator, author Duos.

0:29.3

Gideon Jeremiah, welcome to The Sound of Young America. It's so great to have you here.

0:33.9

Hello. Thank you so much, Jesse.

0:36.1

Hello, Jesse. Thank you so much. And the truth is, we're not even a duo. We're a trio.

0:40.2

That's right. Oh, I get it.

0:43.7

Yeah. Jesus. Yeah, upstairs.

0:46.4

Well, I want to talk to you guys about something that's very important.

0:52.4

I think it's something that our Secretary of State has talked a lot about.

0:57.7

Other important people.

1:00.5

That is one of the greatest gifts that a parent can give a child. That's adoption.

1:06.9

How did this become such an important issue for the two of you guys?

1:13.2

Well, you know, we like to call adopted children.

1:17.2

God's little lost socks. You know, they just need a place to go.

1:22.7

Yeah. You know, Christianity is about caring for those most in need.

1:26.1

And when you're an unloved child stranded in Africa or China, you are in need.

1:32.2

And we are there to step in. And what a lot of people don't know is that

1:35.1

adopteds can happen anywhere. There are even adopted children right here in America.

1:39.2

So right in our own backyard, we've got a problem.

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