A few weeks ago my wife and I attended a “meet and greet” event for potential adoptive families, where adults get to meet and interact with a few dozen children who are ready and able […]
Tag: Adoption
Arguments for a Theology of Children #NationalAdoptionMonth
November is National Adoption Month. In officially declaring this month in a presidential address on October 28, Obama noted, “More than 400,000 children are in foster care across America today, and over 100,000 of these […]
Foster-Adoption: The Weight of the Gospel
As you may have remembered from my previous posts on the subject, my wife and I have been in the process of adopting a child from foster care for the past 18 months. A few weeks ago, this […]
Waiting Together and Waiting Alone
For the last 15 months, my wife and I have been waiting. Waiting, specifically, to adopt a child from the foster system in the State of Indiana. It should not have taken this long, but […]
Scripture Crying out for Orphans: Mother Mary Lange and “the other” St. Jerome, #tbt
Today, February 6th, is nestled between the feasts of two extraordinary people. Saturday, February 8th, is the feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, who lived right around the time of the Reformation and devoted much of […]
A Christian Case for a Third Party
Two weeks: the remaining until the population of the United States will vote for one man (this time around, at least) to hold the most powerful political office in the world. As is usual every […]
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