The church in North Korea

God’s Other Children: The Church in North Korea

by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave The photo at the top of the page shows the Judech Tower in the center of Pyongyang, North Korea. Judech is the official philosophy of the Hermit Kingdom that promotes the totalitarian regime of Kim Jong-un and the near deification of Kim and his family.This philosophy has laid the foundation […]

Slavery God’s other children

God’s Other Children: Seeing the Face of Slaves

by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave Slavery has many disguises. Each one deepens the malevolence of its evil. Slaves are out of sight. We see no interviews with workers in garment factories, no videos of raids to brothels, no stories of children in mines. All of that is kept behind closed doors. The disguises have […]

Nativity Story

Children in the Nativity Story

by Tad de Bordenave Christmas is nearly here. Most of your children are looking forward to stockings, maybe a pageant, and certainly toys. This article is about those children for whom all these are missing. These children are found in the Nativity narratives but are  overlooked. I will put our attention on them so we can see […]

Children Playing

Messages Children Live By

by Tad de Bordenave Children thrive on positive reinforcement, strokes that lift, encourage, sustain, and feed their development. After all, they are sacred to God, created in his image, and dearly loved and protected by him, their heavenly Father. This certainty establishes their identity in secure places. This article is about children who do not […]

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God’s Other Children

by Tad de Bordenave We turn to another member of God’s Other Children, the hungry. In the parable of the Sheep and the Goats Jesus tells us, “I was hungry and you fed me.” These 818 million children are our brothers and sisters and they are hungry. Like the other children we look at, these children […]