Tim Keller’s, Ministries of Mercy, was first published in 1989.  I turned 8 years old in 1989.  My grandfather, the Rev. James Perry, recently passed on a copy of Mercy to me – tucked in a box with some old books.  I love it when my grandfather gives …

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In a recent blog post, The Adoption Law Firm published its Statement of First Orphan Care Principles. The first of those principles is that "Orphan care is good because it is good (i.e., self-evidently good)."  What do we mean that orphan care is …

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What is Adoption? Black’s Law Dictionary defines adoption as “[t]he creation of a parent-child relationship by judicial order between two parties who usu[ally] are unrelated.” This may seem obvious to you, Reader.  However, what does the rest …

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