I’ve felt the tug of anxiety this year more than ever in my life. I don’t mean the sharp, clinical kind. Rather, it’s more like a low-grade fever. Sometimes the feeling fades to almost nothing. Other days it threatens to color everything I see. Many, many friends have confessed similar feelings. It’s as if anxiety […]
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FREE CAFO Family Devotional Event & Guide – September 10 – Responding to Evil
Our world today often feels out-of-sorts. Hurting. Upside-down. We feel it. Our kids do, too. From the constraints of COVID … to the pain of racial conflict … to personal anxiety. It all leaves us asking, “What do God’s people do when we encounter evil and brokenness in our world?” At 7 PM EST on […]
Heritage Foundation Forum: How Faith, Foster Care, and Adoption Go Together
This week, the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC hosted, “How Faith, Foster Care, and Adoption Go Together.” The opening remarks of Kentucky Governor Matt Bevins are rich and meaningful, and well worth watching – they begin at 6:07. (Many in the CAFO community will remember the Orphan Sunday message he expressed a couple years ago […]
STORIES THAT STIR THE SOUL: Talking adoption, foster care and faith with the author of “Bridge to Terabithia” and “The Great Gilly Hopkins”
For many readers, stories written by Katherine Paterson reach deeper into the human heart than those of any other author. At first glance, her books like Bridge to Terabithia seem to be simple children’s literature. Yet they take us spelunking into experiences that we all share as humans, but often fear to express – from […]
Moving Photos from Nepal that Reveal Much
When Westerners view the wider world through their TVs and computer screens, they often see little more than images of need. It’s civil war and tsunami, poverty and famine. (The notable exceptions to this tend to be images of natural beauty.) Perhaps that’s unavoidable. Sensationalism and struggle are always far more likely to be recounted […]
Analysis of THE CHILD CATCHERS — Part II
The book The Child Catchers harshly criticizes the Christian orphan care movement. The Christian Alliance for Orphans a forthright analysis in its new report, “A Frank Analysis of The Child Catchers.” You can read the full report HERE. It’s a 16-page report, so we’re also releasing a number of sections individually. Here is the next […]