Watchdog group names Zuckerberg to 2026 list of top sex exploitation enablers
WASHINGTON (BP) – Social media founder Mark Zuckerberg is himself branded as a mainstream contributor to sexual exploitation on the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s (NCOSE) 2026 Dirty Dozen List released March 31.
FIRST-PERSON: What my toddler taught me about teaching theology
I love hearing my babies chatter through the monitor after putting them down for a nap. One afternoon, shortly after sitting down with a second cup of coffee for a moment of rest, I heard my 2-year-old’s voice crackling through the speaker
Marking the milestones that matter most
We live in a day when the busyness of families and the many facets of the culture enticing the hearts and souls of our kids is off the charts. In the last three churches I have served, we found that one of the best tools to combat these challenges is to train Christian parents to celebrate the spiritual and physical milestones of their children.
International adoptions resume on case-by-case approval basis under new exception
WASHINGTON (BP) – International adoptions that were halted for about 300 U.S. families can resume on a case-by-case approval basis after the U.S. State Department granted a National Interest Exception impacting immigrant adoptees from more than 70 countries.
Church-planting sacrifices shared by the whole family
GLENDIVE, Mont. – When a pastor is called to a new place of ministry, he takes his family with him. That might not affect the toddlers in the family, but what about teenagers? What about the pastor’s wife?
Visa bans halt international adoptions for at least 300 U.S. families
WASHINGTON (BP) – Grace Pierre Dowey, a 10-year-old girl living in a Haitian orphanage near Port Au Prince, knows she has a family in the U.S. She’s met her adoptive parents Ted and Ashley Dowey and her four siblings on Zoom, but that’s the extent of it.
A love story 50 years in the making
Sherrill Keown Holloman didn’t expect to fall in love again — not after losing her husband tragically, not after 18 years of carrying on alone, and certainly not with someone she hadn’t seen in 51 years.
FIRST-PERSON: Life wins
What a month it has been. News of tragedy from back home. The skies here are threatened. It can feel like some great darkness is encroaching.
James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and family values advocate, dies at 89
(RNS) — James C. Dobson, psychologist, best-selling author, popular radio host and well-known advocate for family values, died Thursday (Aug. 21). He was 89.
FIRST-PERSON: The quiet work in the middle gets you to the end
“Wedding of the Century” is a term tossed around far more often than every 100 years.
