Rethinking Orphanages and Orphan Care: Brandon Stiver

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, we talk all about Brandon's previous work in an Orphanage in Moshi, Tanzania, and how he came to realize that Orphanages are doing more harm than good when it comes to caring for orphans and their families. Brandon Stiver is an advocate, educator, and practitioner on behalf of orphans and vulnerable children with a special emphasis on seeing children grow up in families globally and for those families to be strengthened. He is the full-time director for CarePortal in Seattle, and a professor at Vanguard University and a podcaster at Think Global, Do Justice. Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	The Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the Ram My guest today is Brandon Stiver, who I'm here with live in my basement.
0:27.2	This is the first ever, well, the first ever live Theology in a Ra recording in my basement with an actual physical
0:34.2	guest in the new basement yes you can touch me I know I know he's real
0:39.7	sometimes I wonder if my guests are just AI or something.
0:43.0	You're real, you're live in the flesh.
0:45.0	So welcome to The theologian or all basement.
0:47.0	Thanks, man.
0:48.0	It's good to be with you.
0:49.0	So Brandon was on the show, was it about two years ago, ish? Yeah, yeah, about two years ago yeah yeah yeah I'm going to be back yeah I know
0:57.1	it's just a turnaround for me dude yeah the first time around you kept
1:01.6	calling me Brian for like half you know know, I had to, I had to, and now here it's like, well, I slept on the other side of this wall, so I had a good bit of a come up.
1:10.0	No, my, when that, when that show came up, I had friends from church,
1:15.1	I was like, oh dude, you were on theology and the wrong.
1:17.0	And my pastor's name is Brian.
1:19.0	So I told him, I was like, dude, it was kind of like you were on the show
1:22.2	because half the show he called me Brian. So it was kind of like you were on the show, because half the show he called me Brian,
1:24.0	so it was kind of both of us together.
1:25.5	So no, we had a good laugh.
1:27.4	I don't know why I could probably be Brian.
1:30.3	That's not the first time.
1:31.3	I have messed up names, especially pronunciation. I'm just...
1:34.6	Yeah, that's funny. Well, we've gotten to break bread a few times since then and you haven't done it again.
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