Think Global, Do Justice

In Episode 47, you will hear from Michael Miller, Producer of Poverty, Inc., and Poverty Cure, and Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In Episode 46, you will hear from Michael Miller, Producer of Poverty, Inc., and Poverty Cure, and Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In Episode 3, we talk about micro-enterprise and poverty alleviation with Peter Greer, President of HOPE International, and how breaking the cycle of poverty preserves, strengthens families, and prevents children from becoming orphans. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In Episode 44, you will hear some of our favorite moments from Season 2, during which our guests talked with us about many topics, including:

• The importance of fathers in the lives of kids from hard places and every other child in the world
• Great advice to adoptive and foster parents, adoptees, prospective adoptive or foster parents, and everybody who love any of these people or wants to know how they can better love orphaned and at-risk children (so pretty much everyone)
• How to really connect with kids from hard places, whether biological children, adopted children, or other children in our lives
• Orphanages, short-term missions, deinstitutionalization, human trafficking, orphan prevention, family preservation, maternal care, addressing the effects of trauma, and other hot topics in orphan care
• How we can really communicate and work with each other when it seems that we are so far apart in our beliefs and convictions
• How we can effectively engage in all the suffering and injustice in our world
• How all of these issues are interconnected and need to be addressed in concert with each other

For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

[ This episode is a recast from October 11th, 2016 ]

In today's episode, you will hear wisdom from Dr. Mandy Howard, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Samford University, who worked with Dr. Karyn Purvis at the TCU Institute of Child Development for several years. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In Episode 42, you will hear some of our favorite moments from Season 1, during which our guests talked with us about many topics, including:

• How we can advocate for orphaned and vulnerable children and work together to alleviate the orphan crisis
• How we can help to prevent the proliferation of orphaned and vulnerable children by working to alleviate poverty, strengthen families, and disciple young men and women
• Orphanages, short-term missions, adoption, foster care, mentoring, human trafficking addressing the effects of trauma, and other hot topics in orphan care
• How all of these issues are interconnected and need to be addressed in concert with each other
• And much more!

For more information, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

[ This episode is a recast from August 9th, 2016 ]

In today's episode, we get to hear from Dr. Karen Hutcheson, a Trauma Informed, licensed Clinical Psychologist, Author, adoptive mom and Orphan Care Advocate. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of children from "hard places." Karen is also the Director of Discipleship and Training at Scarlet Hope.

For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In Episode 40, you will hear from Jon Bergeron, Counselor with Austin Stone Counseling Center and Speaker. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com.

In this two-part interview, Episodes 38 and 39, we hear from Victor Marx, Founder and President of All Things Possible Ministries, Global Speaker, and High Risk Missions Leader. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com

In this two-part interview, Episodes 38 and 39, we hear from Victor Marx, Founder and President of All Things Possible Ministries, Global Speaker, and High Risk Missions Leader. For full show notes, please visit www.thinkorphan.com