"Did you know it would take less than one percent of the U.S. population to provide a forever family for every child in foster care available for adoption?" AdoptUsKids.org is working with several organizations focused on advocacy for kids in foster care this month to provide resources and get the word out about these children in need of families. What can you do to help?

Wednesday, November 11 is Veterans Day. Writing for Change.org, Retired US Army Captain Scott Quilty asks that we join the Campaign for a Healthy Homecoming to ensure that the service members and veterans who are returning to the States will have access to health and employment resources.

The New York Times features an interactive graph that proves not everyone has felt the effects of job loss the same.  The graph tracks how joblessness in the past 12 months has affected groups of people very differently based on race, gender, age and education.  The data shows that white women ages 25-44 with a college degree have been affected the least by employment rates, while black men ages 15-24 without a high school degree have been hit the hardest.  How has job loss affected you during these hard economic times?

Writing for Sojourners, Logan Laituri shares his reactions to the recent violence at the Fort Hood base in Texas. He writes, "If we succumb to the temptation to hold malice and rage towards Major Hasan, we will, as John Howard Yoder might put it, become just another sociological reflection of the world and embody the message that there is truly nothing new about Christ." What are your reactions?