The ThinkOrphan Podcast
1) God's Movement Among the Iranian Church with Lana Silk
There is no place on Earth that God is not working. Even in authoritarian regimes that make following Christ illegal, He still moves. Iran is one of those countries. While we hear about Iran pretty re...Show More
2) Care Reform in an Urbanizing Africa with Chantry Mweemba
Families are the center piece of how God created societies to flourish, yet there are so many things that can tear down this fundamental part of God's design. We know that orphanages are spread out th...Show More
3) The Messy Middle of Monitoring and Evaluation
One of our great passions behind the show is equipping practitioners globally to serve the poor and develop communities. Today's episode is all about that. We've invited our friend Jeremy Macias back ...Show More
4) Understanding the History Behind Gaza with Dr. Ben Norquist
There is no more salient, no more pressing global event right now for the Church to engage than what is happening currently in Gaza. Gaza presents not just a lightning rod for conversation (or controv...Show More
5) A Year of Discovering the World as a Family with Ashley Campbell
The podcast is back from our summer break, but we're still in vacation travel mode! We're joined by author and photographer Ashley Campbell who is on the show to share about her new book "I've Never B...Show More
6) Summer Break, Updates and Honoring Our Founder Phil Darke
It has been four years since Phil invited Brandon to take over the podcast and the conversations since then (and all the way back to Phil's founding of the podcast in 2016) have been rich, uplifting a...Show More
7) Money, Orphan Care and Voluntourism with Barak Laub
There's no denying that western money in Global South countries has a profound impact, for better or worse. We might assume that spending money on volunteering and caring for orphans would be a net po...Show More
8) The Power of Hope in Humanitarian Crises with Heath Adamson
Hope is a bit of a buzzword, but at the same time it is a lifeline for those that are experiencing humanitarian crises. What does it look like to experience hope in the midst of forcible displacement ...Show More
9) Biofortified Corn, Food Security and GMOs with Curt Bowen
It's impossible to ignore the interconnectedness of global justice issues and the complexity of systems that affect societies. Sometimes a system enables people to thrive and other times the system pu...Show More
10) A Jewish Understanding of James 1:27 with Dr. Andrea Siegel
James 1:27 has long been a central biblical text from which our podcast community has drawn from. But to what extent have we delved into the depths of the Jewish context in which James wrote? To help ...Show More