<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2018/blessing-and-beauty-adoption.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Blessing and Beauty of Adoption</title><excerpt>An adopted daughter, Kelley Johnson Nikondeha ’91 and her husband, Claude, have adopted two children born in Burundi, her adopted country. Adoption has shaped her life profoundly, and she has studied the Scriptures and thought deeply to grasp its full meaning. In a beautifully written book, “Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World” (Eerdmans, 2017), she shares her insights and a central truth in her life: Anyone can be our family if we let them. Nothing she had read expressed her experience with adoption, so she decided to expand the conversation.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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