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Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff | Musings by Jon Acuff. Jon Acuff's Blog | Musings by Jon Acuff. The Gospel-Driven Church. Jeff Vanderstelt | Gospel Communities on Mission. In the meantime. A LifeWay Research blog on theology, missiology, missional church, church planting, church revlitalization, and innovation. Challies Dot Com | Informing the Reforming. Thomrainer.com. Missional in Suburbia | missional, in suburbia. Kingdom People. Rick Morton is Vice President for Engagement for Lifeline Children’s Services in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an international advocate for adoptions and orphans. He is the co-author of Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care, which I reviewed here, and he has recently written a new book entitled KnowOrphans: Mobilizing the Church for Global Orphanology. Rick was kind enough to answer some questions about his book and the way Christians and churches can engage in orphan care.

Trevin: The adoption and orphan care movement in the U.S. has flourished in recent years. You take a look at where we’ve been and where we are today. What are some mistakes we’ve learned from as we’ve promoted adoption and orphan care in the past decade? Rick: There are several key mistakes we can point to that the evangelical orphan care and adoption movement is rapidly moving past. 1.

We have to see adoption as more than missional activity, as we would see having and parenting any child. 2.