One thing is fairly clear: opportunities for success are dramatically increased when there is a caring father in the picture. 

"So how do we mediate between potentially conflicting rights?  When two rights come into conflict with each other, how do we decide which right to privilege and which right to violate?"

Why the protection of faith-based child placement agencies is vital. 

Should it trouble us that US citizens are spending so much time and money caring for the vulnerable children in other countries when we have so many vulnerable children in our own country?

There are over 100,000 children waiting for families in the U.S. foster care system. A Shared Justice exclusive feature explores how churches, nonprofits and government are working together to help find families for all these children. 

When we are speaking about trying to end cycles of poverty and create policy and programs that break that cycle – should we compensate for bad parents or work to improve parents?

Society doesn’t regard parenting as an occupation. It occupies our time and energy, but it certainly doesn’t qualify as a career. 

Politics is fundamentally concerned with public justice, which means that politics is that area of life in which we love our neighbors by seeing that justice be done for them.

God’s biblical mandate to care for the orphan, widow, and sojourner pervades both the Old and New Testament. Maybe caring for the orphan or widow will be more practical when life settles down or when you have more financial resources. We quickly justify our lack of concern or action especially on the orphan’s behalf due to our young age and inability to give money to orphanages abroad or even adopt ourselves.

Last month’s elections marked an undeniable and historic turning point among the American electorate. 

Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, as a Christian, you should not talk about abortion without talking about restorative justice, redemption, and hope….

In some of the major issues of our day — unemployment, debt, childhood obesity, education, the prison system, economic inequality, eating disorders and depression — healthy families are the starting point for a solution.