Paul Pennington and Dr. Jon Bergeron

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  May 20, 2017

  How to Love and Serve Hurting North Koreans

  A few years ago, I was driven across a single-lane bridge from China across the Tumen River into North Korea. It was a cold day despite the bright sunshine as a few friends and I were ushered into a powder-blue building where soldiers directed us to metal detectors.

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  May 22, 2014

  Putin, the Least of These and Our Own Hearts

  My newest granddaughter came home from the Crimea just months ago – and clearly in the nick of time. Had Crimea been controlled by Russia at the time of her adoption, this beautiful girl would have remained an orphan. You see last year, Mr. Putin suddenly and callously cancelled all international adoptions of Russian children. Bullies have little shame. The policy is a travesty that should outrage all compassionate people.

• Sep 16, 2013

  Adoptive Families in Crisis: Exchanging the Sensational for the Reality

  It reads like a bad TV movie of the week. Parents posting ads on the Internet trying to find someone willing to take their adopted child. Pedophiles and mentally ill individuals answering these ads, then being given these children at the first meeting in a parking lot. Tragically these stories aren't fiction. Written by a Reuters investigative reporter and aired by NBC, they are all too true.