orphans...
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"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world," writes James (1:27)
"According to the American Religious Identity Survey, conducted by the City University of New York, there are about 224 million Christians in the United States. So why are there 115,000 orphans in a country that has 225 million Christians?...While not all Christians are gifted or equipped for taking in orphans it's pretty convicting that 65 million American evangelicals can't rescue 115,000 kids..."
more here: http://theresurgence.com/ab_blog_2007-06-04_orphans_vs_american_dream
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