Latest articleModernity Has Mastered Brokenness but Forgotten BelongingOur large institutions are built for “wholesale” solutions. They are designed to scale, process data, allocate budgets, and deliver services to vast populations. We certainly need them, but you cannot scale human connection.July 27, 20264 min

Orphan Justice, the Forgotten Cause“The mark of a faithful society is not how it treats the powerful, but how it treats those who have no leverage.”July 27, 20262 min

Anthropology and the Loss of Communal HoldingSouth African researcher Linda Richter puts it plainly: An orphan is not just a child without parents. An orphan is a signal that a society’s kinship system is under strain.July 27, 20262 min

What Is an 'Orphan' Really? How the Definition Has Shifted Across 4,000 Years of HistoryMost people assume "orphan" simply means a child with no living parents — but the word has been stretched, narrowed, weaponized, and redeemed across four millennia of law, theology, and social policy. Here's what that history reveals.July 27, 20265 min

Why the Orphan Became Theology's Favorite Test CaseFrom Hammurabi's code to early Christian charity networks, how a society treats its orphans doesn't just reflect its laws — it reveals the operative theology underneath them.July 27, 20265 min

How Did Orphanages Rise and Fall in America? A Beginner's Roadmap to the Institutional HistoryThe American orphanage didn't simply disappear — it was slowly dismantled, reimagined, and replaced by systems we still live with today. Here's the chronological roadmap every curious reader needs.July 27, 20265 min

Victorian Poorhouses vs. Modern Foster Care: What Actually Changed — and What Didn'tThe Victorian poorhouse was abolished in the name of progress. But strip away the language of reform, and the moral logic underneath looks surprisingly familiar — and that should trouble us.July 27, 20264 min