Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. (Matthew 23:23; NASB)

The Pharisees were a legalistic sect bent on "being right" rather than "doing right". Because of this, they were soundly condemned by the Lord.

We have been at a plateau for a little over three months. The mother of the children we hope to adopt has yet to return the consent that will allow the adoption to go forward. Without going into a lot of confidential detail, we have three... more

As a followup to my four-part series on the Christine Kilmer case (see posts from March 9, 13 and 14), I did some research into independent adoption.

In independent or private adoption, prospective adoptive parents network and/or “advertise” their intent to adopt through classified... more