A new survey of adoption agencies confirms that the secrecy once associated with adoption is no longer a reality, with 95 percent of all domestic adoptions now being “open” or “semi-open” — that is, the birth parents and adoptive parents having at least some level of contact.
Daily Archives: March 27, 2012
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Congress has the authority to require Americans to buy health insurance, the Obama administration told the U.S. Supreme Court, but it undoubtedly left the second day of oral arguments over its controversial health-care law with fresh concerns about whether the mandate at the heart of the measure would survive.
Southern Baptist executive Richard Land joined pro-life religious leaders and public figures in extolling the virtues of “our glorious First Amendment,” calling Americans to stand up for religious freedom in light of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s abortion/contraceptive mandate. The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom was held […]
Cincinnati-area Lakota Hills Baptist Church and its pastor, Travis Smalley, have a vision for planting churches. But with a debt stretching beyond $1.3 million since its founding in 1967, Lakota Hills is using a loan from the North American Mission Board’s Church Finance Ministry to free up funds for starting […]
A South Carolina pastor weeps and prays for his church’s adopted people group in Mali. When he was in Mali in February, Brad Bessent told the believers he had befriended in a bush village the day may come when volunteers from his church could not get to them. “Either the […]
Sessions for pastors and ministers looking to expand their reach through the written word have been added to this spring’s Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. The new track will teach ministers how to make greater use of sermons and Bible studies through such print forms as articles and books.