Mike Pilavachi interviewed for Slipstream
The Slipstream podcast for July is now online. In it we’re talking to Mike Pilavachi, founder of Soul Survivor, Hope 08 and Soul in the City.
Go here to listen.
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The Mission of God
The July ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online.
In it I’m talking to Chris Wright, the International Director of the Langham Partnership International, about his magnum opus ‘The Mission of God.’
And John Ayrton and I are continuing our discussion of contemporary spirituality by asking how Christians can respond to the outpourings of grief expressed at [...]
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Giving away your daughter
This is (more or less) what I said on Saturday:
On the wall over my desk, there’s one of those frames that holds twenty or so different pictures.
It’s filled with photographs of the three people who matter most to me. So obviously, there are quite a few photos of Judy, and then there are pictures of [...]
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Children as trophies?
Examining the evidence on same-sex parenting
By Patricia Morgan
Here is what the cover blurb of this book says:
There
are increasing calls to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
Whilst this idea is popular with many social workers, opinion
polls show that the public strongly disagrees. Claims are routinely
made that homosexual parenting is at least as good if not better
than parenting in the traditional two-parent family. Most concerned
with adoption placements would admit that ultimately this question
should be decided by the evidence. Social work's concern is to
act in the best interests of the child. To go against the evidence
would mean adoption because of the adopter's interests and not
the child's. Patricia Morgan has looked at the evidence in meticulous
detail. She has produced what is the most comprehensive review
of research on same-sex parenting ever published in Europe. The
evidence is very clear for any who wish to consider it.
'Children as Trophies'
is published by the Christian
Institute.
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Read
the Foreword
by Colin Hart, Director of the Christian Institute. |
Buy
'Children as Trophies'
Sidelining
Security and Stability
A
24-page briefing from the Christian Institute arguing against
abandoning the current grounds for adoption.
pdf
Patricia Morgan
is a sociologist specializing in family policy and criminology. Her
books include 'Delinquent Fantasies' 1978; 'Facing up to family income'
1989; 'Families in Dreamland' 1992; 'Farewell to the Family?' 1995;
'Are Families Affordable?' 1998; 'Adoption: The Continuing Debate' 1999;
and 'Marriage-Lite' 2000.