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“If This Turns Positive, It Is Freaking Baby Jesus”: Wife Breaks Shocking News to Husband After Bringing Home Adopted Newborn

"One stick turned positive and a different kind of vomit happened… word vomit… ‘OHHH SH**!!!’ I guess I said it loud enough for Sam to hear me, because he opened the door and asked to look at the test. He then started reading the box saying aloud, ‘Noooo!'"

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“This is Their Problem”: Jen Hatmaker to Her Black Children on Racism in America

“Why do white people think they’re so much better than black people—is it something about us?” 

That soul-crushing question from her adopted daughter Remy weighed on Jen Hatmaker’s spirit like a ton of bricks.

“I just sat there in front of her and cried my eyes out,” the Christian speaker and mother of five shared. “I said, ‘No no no, you are beautiful and you are important and you are equal to anybody on this earth.’ I said, ‘This is their problem.‘”

Before adopting her 14-year-old son Beniam and 12-year-old daughter Remy from Ethiopia, Hatmaker admits the racism so deeply ingrained in her realm of white privilege went largely unnoticed.

But her motherhood journey with Beniam and Remy since taking them in at ages eight and five has radically challenged her perspective.

“We’re kind of the center of the bullseye on privilege,” says Hatmaker. “We are white, we are straight, we are married, we’re pastors, we’re upper-middle class, so we just had the luxury of not having to care.”

Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey Straeter
Kelsey is an editor at Outreach. She’s passionate about fear fighting, freedom writing, and the pursuit of excellence in the name of crucifying perfectionism. Glitter is her favorite color, 2nd only to pink, and 3rd only to pink glitter.

“If This Turns Positive, It Is Freaking Baby Jesus”: Wife Breaks Shocking News to Husband After Bringing Home Adopted Newborn

"One stick turned positive and a different kind of vomit happened… word vomit… ‘OHHH SH**!!!’ I guess I said it loud enough for Sam to hear me, because he opened the door and asked to look at the test. He then started reading the box saying aloud, ‘Noooo!'"

To the Man Who Video Taped a Toddler Screaming as Her Mom Overdosed on Heroin

What not to do when you see a helpless child crying for her mother...

This Grandma Waved to These Students Every Day—When She Wasn’t There, They Had to Find Her

One morning, the "grandma in the window" was no longer there...