From Rural South Africa to the Supreme Court: Palmer Williams at The Table

Rick Morton, Herbie Newell, and Chelsea Sobolik welcome attorney and advocate Palmer Williams, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former general counsel of the ERLC. Palmer traces her heart for vulnerable children from her own childhood experience of need, through summers and a gap year serving at a children's home in rural South Africa, to the adoption of her brother. She talks about approaching communities with a gifts-first posture, why lasting service starts with relationship, and how the church can respond with grace to awkward or offensive comments. The panel digs into the difference between enforcing laws and writing new ones, why state and local policy matters so much, and how families can tell their stories to policymakers. They close with the steep decline in international adoption and why the church should keep raising the banner for children without families.