For tonight’s Living in the Tension gathering, Jennifer Carr will be joining us as a guest speaker to share about her journey with her gender diverse child. Jennifer is an author, blogger, public speaker, and advocate for gender diverse individuals. She is the proud mother of a child who started to socially transition to live into her gender shortly before her 6th birthday. In 2010, Jennifer had the book Be Who You Are published to be a resource for individuals to peer into... Read more
If you’re in or around Chicago, I’ll be preaching (Psalm 118:8-17) at First Evangelical Free Church. The service starts at 10am. The address is: 5255 N. Ashland Ave Chicago, IL 60640 For those not in Chicago, I’m sure they will be recording it so when it’s posted I’ll post it as well. Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
Bummer. It’s now officially past 6pm Central Time and I’m (and everyone I know in person or via the web, or everyone I’ve ever heard of) is still here. I really had my hopes set on Heaven! Looks like I’ll just have to refocus my hope once again on what it means to live the daily grind trying to be as faithful as possible in bringing and establishing Heaven here on earth. Maybe one day soon we’ll actually be raptured... Read more
Well, if prediction holds true, this is my last hour on earth before I get raptured. I hope you get raptured too! I’ve really been looking forward to this day. Seriously. I have. Ever since that old guy told everyone the exact time and date of Jesus’ return, I’ve set my calendar to make sure I’m ready to bounce out of this place. I know, I know … Jesus told us that no one would know the exact hour of... Read more
There’s a bold young man named Charles Peters – from Liberty University none the less – that created Heretic Press. It was originally supposed to be a project for one of his classes, but through the wonders of the fluency of college students’ use of the interwebs, it has quickly taken off into so much more than that in its content and extreme popularity! On the second “official” issue, the work of The Marin Foundation is featured as the cover... Read more
Tonight, May 12th at 8pm Central, I will be live on America’s most listened to Christian radio program – The Frank Pastore Show. You can listen live here. Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
News broke yesterday when the leading progressive Christian organization, Sojourners, denied an interdenominational LGBT organization, Believe Out Loud, the ability to pay for ad space to run an ad that asks churches to welcome LGBT people and their families (just welcome, not ordinate or promote gay marriage or anything….just welcome them into your churches). You can get the summary of the story here. When the story hit the internet it hit like an electric bolt and spread, to say the... Read more
On Tuesday, May 10th, we will be meeting at 4003 N. Kenmore Ave. Apt. 3 in Chicago at 6:30pm to watch ‘Becoming Chaz’ and ‘Our America with Lisa Ling: Transgender Lives’. We’re going to grab a bite to eat there before watching ‘Transgender Lives’ at 7pm and then ‘Becoming Chaz’ as it is premiering on Oprah’s network OWN at 8. If you haven’t heard about it, ‘Becoming Chaz’ follows Sonny & Cher’s child as he goes through the process of gender... Read more
Andrew Marin was recently featured on an episode of the Red Letter Christianity TV show with Tony Campolo and Mark Lowry. You can check it out by clicking on the photo of the show below. Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
UPDATE 4/26: If you missed the documentary on PBS, you can now watch it online for the time being here. The following post was written by Kevin Harris, Director of Community Relations at The Marin Foundation. Tonight, April 25th, Stonewall Uprising will be airing on PBS at 9pm (CST). You can check your local listings on pbs.org. It was not too long ago that simply being gay or lesbian in the United States was illegal and punishable by imprisonment. Given... Read more
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