"Adoption is a beautiful thing. But it is also a terrifying thing. It is a maddening thing. It is a mystifying thing." Emily Stimpson Chapman was writing about the woman who would make her dream of ...

To order: preorder at StPaulCenter.com. In the course of 45 letters to herself 20 years younger, Emily Stimpson Chapman writes profound truths, expressing all the things one has learned over the ...

If you could talk to your younger self, what would you tell her? In this 8-part video series, Fr. Dave Pivonka and Emily Stimpson Chapman engage in an often light-hearted conversation about her latest ...

In giving birth and adopting during COVID, moms tells of reliance on their faith. L to R: First-time mother Maria Hilger smiles along with her son, Isaiah; Emily Stimpson Chapman holds her son, Becket ...