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Heritage Event Recording: Prioritizing the Needs of Children in Adoption and Foster Care

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May 23, 2018

When governments threaten to shut down faith-based adoption and foster care providers, kids are the ones who suffer. Unfortunately, activist groups are targeting faith-based agencies in Michigan, Texas, and Pennsylvania. If they succeed, children will bear the cost, as states will be left with fewer partners to address the influx of children into the child welfare system due to the opioid epidemic. Our country needs as many agencies as possible to meet the needs of America’s children.

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Heritage Event Recording: Safeguarding Faith-Based Adoption and Foster Care

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April 9, 2018

As the opioid crisis is driving thousands of children into the foster care system, some states are ill-equipped to even provide a bed for these new foster children, let alone find them a “forever family.” It is at this critical moment that legal activist groups are seeking to leverage the power of government to impose their sexual orthodoxy upon faith-based adoption agencies. The overburdened adoption and foster care systems cannot afford to lose faith-based agencies.

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A Theology of Adoption

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The theme of adoption echoes through the Old and New Testaments. From Israel’s being called the son of God, to the often forgotten fact that Joseph is Jesus’s adoptive father, adoption is a central theme in the grand narrative of the creation, fall, redemption, and restoration of the world. In Not by Nature but by Grace, Gilbert Meilaender offers a primer for understanding adoption through a scriptural and ethical lens. It is a timely book, with its treatment of topics such as embryo and transracial adoption, and timeless, in its discussions of human dignity and the procreative potential of the bond of marriage.

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