Adoption attorney, Sam McLure, recently had two articles published in Montgomery's Journey Magazine. Embracing Orphan Care and Adoption, looks at the Biblical principles behind orphan care and adoption, and interviews Coleman and Amy Hufham of …
Until there are No More Orphans
James 1:27 gives us a call to visit the orphan in their affliction. The research of Showhope.org points out the stark reality that "[c]hildren are profoundly affected as their parents fall sick and die, setting them on a long trail of painful …
Pursuing Domestic Transracial Adoption, Part 2
It’s no secret: the majority of orphans available for adoption in the United States are non-white. In the first post in this series, I looked at that statistic and speculated about why some white couples are hesitant to adopt transracially from …
Mark Richt and the Scandal of Adoption
Have you ever watched ESPN or kept up with college athletics and thought that sportsmanship, decency and honor have disappeared from today’s teams? I know I have. As an avid fan of college football I have been disappointed with the scandals that have …
World Magazine: “What heaven looks like”
World Magazine's January 28, 2012 issue highlighted several pro-life and adoption related articles. Of particular interest was an article about a family with a last name that sounds like they invented Twitter: the Twietmeyers. As I read the …
Tim Keller, Tomatoes, and Adoption
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 …
Pursuing Domestic Transracial Adoption, Part I
About sixty years ago, adopting domestically (that is, from within the United States) became more commonplace, but at the time, adoptive parents took great pains to conceal the fact that their children had been adopted. They did not tell the child, …
Unpacking the “Statement of First Orphan Care Principles” – Part 1
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?
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 …
