The following post was written by Kevin Harris, Director of Community Relations at The Marin Foundation. What often happens to be missing in conversations about faith & homosexuality is not just tact and love, (take a quick look at just about any comments sections after a blog post on homosexuality and the bible) but humility. As I continue to work for The Marin Foundation and regularly interact with and read thoughts by individuals coming from very different ends of the... Read more
Our next Living in the Tension gathering at Roscoe’s (3356 N. Halsted St.) on July 6th at 7pm will feature Jay Bakker. Jay Bakker, author and co-pastor of Revolution NYC, a church that meets at a bar in Brooklyn will be sharing about his personal journey with his parents and faith and about his recent book Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self, & Society. After rejecting his faith as a result of all the hypocrisy he saw, Jay came... Read more
For the last few nights, CNN aired “The Sissy Boy Experiment,” an Anderson Cooper 360 special three-part series. The investigative series looked at a government funded study at UCLA’s gender identity clinic in the 1970s headed up by George Rekers aimed at making effeminate boys more masculine. Kirk Murphy was placed in the study at age 5 as a result of his mother’s thoughts about his gender expression and along with a closer look into the therapy and those involved,... Read more
The following post was written by Nathan Albert, Director of Pastoral Care at The Marin Foundation. I took a walk through my hometown the other day. It’s enjoyable as an adult to relive childhood memories. As I walked, I realized fences are everywhere. Our family didn’t have a fence around our yard. We lived on a corner lot and had a huge backyard. It became the neighborhood sports field for us kids. Depending on the sports season, we’d play football,... Read more
As we will be hosting a large youth group of 15-17 year-old students tonight for our Living in the Tension gathering, we will be closing the group to the public. Our apologies as we have never closed the LITT gatherings to the public before, but as we will be talking with them and their youth pastor about faith, sexuality, bullying, etc. we wanted to make sure that it is a safe and comfortable environment for them so they can feel... Read more
[Drat! For whatever reason the video isn’t embedding, so just click here to see it] Too often we all just take our bats and keep beating each other … neither is breaking. ‘Breaking’ isn’t the point. At least it’s not supposed to be. Are we going to keep trying, which will get us no where, or are we going to find a new way? Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
My great friend Kelly Pope gave me this in much needed encouragement: Teddy Roosevelt was speaking to a group of students in France at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), and this is part of what he had to say to them: “It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in... Read more
What is My One Sentence Bible? 6-1-11: We must always keep our hearts and minds open to the Holy Spirit’s silent revelations that we might know the Lord. Luke 9:18-21 Suffering is more than just pain; it’s also knowing you have been rejected by those who are supposed to be a part of your team. Luke 9:22 The mechanism that will lead you to death is the same thing you must daily bear in order to follow Jesus. Luke 9:23-25... Read more
Here is another poem by our great friend Karen Bowlby. “I believe in God. Not just any God – Not that anything goes, Spiritual but not religious, Politically correct, Don’t want to offend anyone Anything but the God you think of when I say God – You know – the one that hates abortion, Fags, and anyone different No – I believe in that God The God The one who did the whole Jesus-thing, The one that beget all the... Read more
For the rest of this week we (and LGBT friends of ours we’re bringing in to speak) will be filming our new DVD project with Zondervan! Please pray for us to clearly communicate this bridge building message (and for the weather!). Looking forward to giving updates… Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
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