Here are a few photos Nightlight’s Lisa Prather has taken over the past few days during her time in Uganda. She’ll write more about the trip when she’s back in the States.

The Blind Side, the story of NFL Rookie of the Year Michael Oher, depicts the the impact of a loving (adoptive) family. Read more at World Magazine, and check the official movie website for trailers, etc.

As part 2 of their “Life: Imagine the Potential” series, CatholicVote.org has put out the following very nicely produced pro-adoption, pro-life spot:

Yesterday, USA Today (online) ran an emotionally-stirring piece about a single mother of three teenagers who became pregnant and chose adoption for the child: “Struggling families look at adoption.”
Openness in adoption is a major theme in the article. The interplay between the financial crisis and an uptick in domestic adoptions (and abortions) is also addressed [...]

Together for Adoption has posted the audio from their Nov. 1 conference. Check it out at their 2008 Conference Audio page. The audio titles are:

Jason Kovacs and Maridel Sandberg – “Conference Welcome and the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ Vision for Orphan Ministry”
Dan Cruver – “Adoption in God’s Story of Redemption”
Rick Phillips – “The Good News [...]

I had the privilege of preaching at Grace Church of Memphis yesterday on the cosmic significance of adoption within the story of redemption. You can listen to it here.

Steven Curtis Chapman and family were interviewed on Good Morning America today about the death of Maria Sue Chunxi Chapman. Watch the interview here (Note: Interview begins with a short clip of the interview, moves into a commercial, and then shows the full seven minute interview).

Comments about Dorothy Bode’s transracial adoption interview on NPR’s Day to Day. In this May 28 interview, Dorothy discusses from her own experience the special issues facing transracial families.

Dan Cruver will be interviewed today on the Calling for Truth show about his adoption initiative, Together for the Gospel.

Carolina Hope announces the launch of our new International Adoption website. The site features our country adoption programs and a new interface to maximize usability.

Over at the conservative website Townhall.com, John Stossel (formerly of 20/20) writes an eyebrow-raising piece called USA Makes Adoption Harder. I want to be very clear that some of Stossel’s statements make me uncomfortable, and this is not an endorsement of Stossel’s article. But much of what he says is a simple reality, however unpopular [...]

There’s a new independent film out that compassionately deals with abortion and adoption: Bella, winner of the Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Awards. I haven’t seen it, but I’ve read good things about it. Below is an excerpt from the movie review at Focus on the Family’s Plugged In Online. You can also find information [...]

Family Life recently interviewed a number of individuals who have been involved in orphan care ministry in their local churches. You’ll find this video very challenging and inspiring. Let us be encouraged that Christ is doing a work among his people (among us!) to mobilize them to care for orphans.

(HT: Desiring God Blog)

On January 29 of this year, Oprah Winfrey aired a show about a group of Christian families in the same community who adopted pre-teen and teenager boys from a Liberian orphanage. The story is remarkable, and I encourage all of our readers to watch it at Lysa TerKeurst’s website. (Hat tip to Rob Singleton of [...]

Today Thomas J DiFilipo of JCICS released an update on the Guatemala 5000 initiative, an effort to organize families with a stake or interest in Guatemala adoptions – or in child welfare generally – to advocate for a humane process while Guatemala transitions to a new adoption law. At present, there is no certainty

This morning, Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition. Mr. Lomborg believes that global warming is a reality, and he believes that human activity is contributing to the problem. However, he rejects solutions like the Kyoto Protocol, because he believes these types of [...]

Two days ago I posted about an adoption interview/debate on Al Jazeera’s English network. This post is about the second half of that interview with Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS), and Louise Melville, a Care and Protection Adviser for Save The Children.
You can watch the [...]

The English wing of the Arab news network Al Jazeera produced a piece last month about international adoption on their “Inside Story” program: “Guatemala Adoption Scandal” aired on 13 August 2007. The program featured two interviewees who went head-to-head on inter-country adoption: Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services [...]