The Country’s Largest Protestant Adoption Agency Is Dropping LGBTQ Couples — Again
The reversal comes five years after the foster care and adoption agency first agreed to partner with LGBTQ couples.
Religion Plays a Role in Native American Adoption Case Before Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court hears Brackeen v. Haaland, what is at stake for most interested parties is the decades-old Indian Child Welfare Act. The act was meant to stop Native American families from being separated by child welfare agencies and private adoption services and instead
How a New HHS Rule Will Harm Far More People Than You Realize
(RNS) — A proposed new rule could allow over $30 billion in Department of Health and Human Services grants to flow to organizations that openly refuse to serve people of faith, women and LGBTQ people. The administration claims that this rule only applies to child
New Rule Would Allow Foster Care, Adoption Agencies to Exclude on Religious Grounds
(RNS) — The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would allow adoption, foster care agencies, and other social service providers receiving taxpayer funding from the Department of Health and Human Services to refuse to serve people based on religion, sexual orientation and gender
Foster Care & Adoption Infused into Church Plant
MUSTANG, Okla. (BP) -- From a church planting perspective, The Well is averaging approximately 100 in weekly attendance, recently baptizing several new believers. Meanwhile, the planters -- Stephen Myers and Steven Giblet -- have worked to cultivate a culture within the church conducive to foster care
Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God’s master plan
As a single adoptive father of five boys, Robert Ewing has encountered a stressed schedule and reduced career options, deep tragedy and great joy.
Award-winning Christian musician advocate for adoption
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Russia adoption controversy hasn’t affected ‘Angels’ hosting program
Officials at Buckner International say the recent political furor over a news report about a mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia on a one-way flight has not affected the group’s “Angels from Abroad” orphan hosting program scheduled for this
One big happy family! Multicultural adoption grows
Multicultural adoption is more than just a hot Hollywood trend. Some Baptist families consider adopting a child -- or multiple children -- from another race or culture as a divine calling.
Transracial adoption more than a hot Hollywood trend
Hollywood celebrities have brought increased attention to transracial adoption. Though hotly debated among sociologists and some theologians, many Baptist families love their “belly-button” children and their “heartstring” children equally.
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