[Update 6pm CST] I spent today calling and texting my LGBT married friends around the country, congratulating them in this momentous ruling. I understand from doing life with them how important this decision is to their lives, their spouses and especially their children. The impact of today can never be overstated, as our nation’s legal arc towards an equal understanding of humanity can continue to be lived in to, now with LGBTs and marriage. Also, you can find The Marin... Read more
Taylor Culver is a recent graduate of Northwestern College, interning with us this summer in Chicago. I was born and raised in Sioux City, IA and recently graduated from college with a degree in Psychology. It is here that my journey to reconciling faith and sexuality began. As a Psychology major at a Christian college, there were many questions about faith and science that needed to be answered before full reconciliation of the two fields could take place. In these... Read more
Not that most of you care, but I thought I’d let you know that since June 12th there has been a problem with the “Share This” plugin on a number of blogs all over Patheos. So if you have shared a post from my blog, or a lot of others on Patheos, and you noticed it was not actually shared or counted on the ticker on each post, I have now alerted you to the problem. If you feel so... Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: From: Andrew Marin, President and Founder of The Marin Foundation, and author of the award winning book Love Is an Orientation For Interview Requests: (p) 773-572-5983 // (e) [email protected] It was the summer of 2000 when my three best friends came out to me in three consecutive months. Very quickly I learned there were two options for me: Work to help make my best friends straight; or Disavow religion, help my best friends disavow religion, then... Read more
On Monday, July 1, The Marin Foundation will be hosting Peterson Toscano’s one-person play, Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible. The event will be taking place at 7pm in the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted (3656 N Halsted St.). The night is free and open to the public. You can RSVP on the Facebook event page to help give us an idea of how many people will be in attendance and invite other friends via the event page that... Read more
With the Chicago Pride Parade right around the corner, we will be screening the documentary Stonewall Uprising this Wednesday, June 19. We will be hosting the screening in Room 124 on 5255 N Ashland Ave. at 7pm and it is open to the public. It was not too long ago that simply being gay or lesbian in the United States was illegal and punishable by imprisonment. Given the reality of the government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities in the 1950s and 1960s,... Read more
The following post is from Trista L. Carr, Psy.D. Dr. Carr is a Clinical Psychologist and has a private practice in San Francisco, CA. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, where she was a research assistant for the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity. She obtained an M.A. degree in Community Counseling from The University of Akron in Ohio. Her research and clinical interests are in the integration of Christian faith, psychology,... Read more
Jamie Arpin-Ricci and his community at Little Flowers Community have attended the Winnipeg Pride Parade the past couple years to apologize for the ways that they and other Christians have harmed the LGBT community. For this post, Jamie was gracious to answer a few questions about his community’s involvement with the campaign. Jamie is a writer, pastor, and missional church-planter living in the inner city of Winnipeg, Canada with his Aussie wife, Kim, and Ethiopian son, Micah. He is the... Read more
For those that wish to join us at The Marin Foundation for the I’m Sorry Campaign at the Chicago Pride Parade on June 30 this year, we will be using our Living in the Tension gathering on June 17 to prep for our presence at the parade. We will be meeting at 7pm in Room 124 on 5255 N Ashland Ave. to go over things to keep in mind and to plan for our presence at the parade. RSVP on the... Read more
The following post is from Brent Bailey, a Master of Divinity student at Abilene Christian University. Brent is interning with us at The Marin Foundation this summer, and you can find his blog at oddmanout.net. In my previous post, I described how public opinion on homosexuality in the U.S. has shifted rapidly, with the result that traditional Christian sexual ethics, which once synchronized with general societal attitudes, now often come across as intolerant and oppressive. Without a doubt, conservative Christian political activity... Read more
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