Effective Compassion

Effective Compassion is an investigation into American poverty-fighting.

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Effective Compassion: Court Appointments - S4.E5

Posted May 16, 202300:27:18

The family court system in practice includes two components of effective compassion. Help that is challenging and personal. But in a secular system,...

Effective Compassion: In pursuit of hope - S4.E4

Posted May 9, 202300:37:32

How can Christian parents effectively foster hope in children whose traumatic past gives them little hope for the future? Choosing to love children...

Effective Compassion: Staying close to home - S4.E3

Posted May 2, 202300:33:49

Christians once flocked to foreign countries to adopt children who desperately needed families to love them. But attitudes toward taking children so...

Effective Compassion: Rending and repair - S4.E2

Posted April 25, 202300:32:56

More than a third of Americans say they’ve thought about adopting. But just 2 percent actually have. Adoption is complicated and expensive. It can...

Effective Compassion: Called to care S4.E1

Posted April 18, 202300:33:47

Christians once played a key role in caring for American children in crisis. But as the government’s involvement in social services grew, Christians’...