A Long String of Pearls

This month, Citizen celebrates its 30th birthday. In the parlance of marriage, that makes it our pearl anniversary.​ Pearls are funny things,...

Our Adoption Story

Our journey to Jenny began on March 1, 2015. That was the day our biological daughter, Vivien, was born. Until then,...

Out of the Orphanage

For decades, we’ve seen the heart- touching pictures and heard the gut-wrenching stories—from Africa to Asia, from Latin America to...

Young, Single and Adopting

Courtnay Phillips will never forget the day she made two elderly men cry at the grocery store—on two separate aisles.​...

Abandoning 
the Faith

From churches that meet in steepled buildings with stained-glass windows to those located in former Walmarts, (churches) vary more today...
Bride and groom

Why Care About Marriage?

“Why should we care about marriage?” That’s the question Jim Daly, Focus on the Family President, asks in the prologue of...