Deported: A View From the “Other” Side
AUG 3, 2014 | BY: JON HUCKINS -- I was recently sitting in a Tijuana shelter that houses men for 12 days after they have been deported from...
Orphanage Tourism: Is it Ever Okay to Visit an Orphanage in the Developing World?
JUNE 9, 2014 | BY: JOHN MCCOLLUM -- Spend much time at all in a place like Phnom Penh and you’ll be asked if you’d like to visit an orphanage...
Separating the Baby from the Bathwater: Defending the Role of Orphanages in Addressing the Global Orphan Crisis
MAY 29, 2014 | BY: JOHN MCCOLLUM -- God himself cares for orphans and expects his people to do so as well. This much is not...
How the Christian orphan care movement may be enabling child abandonment
NOV 26, 2013 | BY: KRISTEN HOWERTON -- A few months ago I got to speak at Idea Camp about orphan care. I shared my concerns...
Hollywood Films: The March of the Beast
BY: MORF MORFORD -- A near constant theme of Hollywood films is the monster, system or mechanism that goes out of control. A parallel theme...
Going There: Another Take on the Orphan Crisis
It’s been just over two years since a magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than a quarter of a million people and leaving thousands of children orphaned, overwhelming a nation already in crisis. ...