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2013-06-11T11:23:12-05:00

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Equality Means Equality

Last updated on: June 11, 2013 at 11:23 am By Andrew Marin

In other sad news, divorce continues to hurt children. Now, it’s not just “straight” divorce. Yesterday I read that Glee star Jane Lynch and her wife Lara Embry are filing for divorce; leaving two kids with only one parent. Again. Remember that argument, straight people ruined the sanctity of marriage with divorce before LGBTs ever had a chance. Humanity seems to always have a way to quickly catch up with itself. Then in Florida, an eighteen year old girl was... Read more

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2013-06-10T11:13:29-05:00

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Attitude Shift – Part 1

Last updated on: June 10, 2013 at 11:13 am By Andrew Marin

The following post is from Brent Bailey, a Master of Divinity student at Abilene Christian University. Brent is interning with us again at The Marin Foundation this summer and you can find his blog at oddmanout.net. In the next few weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings related to its March hearings on Proposition 8 and DOMA. (I’ll take this opportunity to point back to a post I wrote before the hearings encouraging readers to “Think Ahead” instead of speaking... Read more

Bridging Opposing Worldviews

2014-06-20T08:25:49-05:00

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Why I’m Sorry

Last updated on: June 20, 2014 at 8:25 am By Andrew Marin

The following post is from Laura Statesir, Director of Family and Youth at The Marin Foundation. The arrival of summer means many things to Chicagoans: the opening of the beaches (sunburns), baseball season (Cubs/Sox rivalries), neighborhood festivals (bad cover bands), and the Chicago Pride Parade. Gay pride parades bring many images and ideas to mind, but regardless of what it means to each of us, the Chicago Pride Parade is a significant cultural and political event that drew 850,000 spectators... Read more

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2013-06-25T12:39:43-05:00

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View The Marin Foundation’s 2012 IRS Returns

Last updated on: June 25, 2013 at 12:39 pm By Andrew Marin

As I do every year, I post The Marin Foundation’s IRS 990’s online for all to see and inspect. I started this a few years ago after some activists from the left accused me of getting rich by being “sneakily homophobic.” Then I was accused by activists from the right about getting rich off capitulating to the “gay agenda.” Besides all of those individual group accusations being false, the comical part to all of it is that The Marin Foundation, or... Read more

Bridging Opposing Worldviews

2013-06-16T15:43:32-05:00

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Continuing Education Classes with The Marin Foundation

Last updated on: June 16, 2013 at 3:43 pm By Andrew Marin

If you have ever wanted to learn practical steps for building bridges between the LGBT community and the church, now is the time! If you read Love Is an Orientation and want to know, “Now what?” here is your answer. Whether you are a pastor, a parent, a youth worker, an LGBT individual, a professor, or someone who is simply interested in knowing how to elevate this conversation, this is for you! This summer, The Marin Foundation will be offering continuing education... Read more

Bridging Opposing Worldviews

2013-05-30T14:54:25-05:00

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Living in the Tension Gathering – Mon. June 3

Last updated on: May 30, 2013 at 2:54 pm By Andrew Marin

In the midst of the Supreme Court hearings related to Proposition 8 and DOMA, Time magazine discussed how quickly the gay rights movement has shifted and declared same-sex marriage is the nation’s inevitable future: “Yesterday’s impossible now looks like tomorrow’s inevitable.” Is marriage equality an inevitable outcome in our country? In light of our historical awareness of past equality movements and the shape of the gay rights movements, along with our future predictions of where our nation is headed, how do we... Read more

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2013-05-29T08:54:13-05:00

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The Giver

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 8:54 am By Andrew Marin

The following post is from Michael Overman. Michael interned with us this year while working towards his Masters of Divinity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. You can check out his blog at findingthebalance.net. Growing up, one of my all-time favorite books was The Giver by Lois Lowry. After reading it for the first time in first or second grade, and then later for an undergraduate philosophy course (with several readings between), I fell in love to the point that I make a habit of reading... Read more

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2013-08-04T22:48:00-05:00

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Part 3: Understanding the Culture War

Last updated on: August 4, 2013 at 10:48 pm By Andrew Marin

This short post is based on the understanding that "Language is our first step toward salvation. We cannot fight what we cannot describe." Read more

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2013-05-22T10:12:45-05:00

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Culture Teaches Us We Cannot Even Have a Conversation

Last updated on: May 22, 2013 at 10:12 am By Andrew Marin

I read an article earlier this week that some people and policy makers are very upset that President Obama is welcoming Myanmar president, Thein Sein (pictured above), to the White House for a visit and some diplomatic conversations. The reason for the uproar, in the minds of those roaring, is that back in the day Sein was a part of a well known junta in Myanmar, and was eventually blacklisted by the US. That ban was lifted in 2012, and... Read more

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2013-05-17T09:47:48-05:00

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Christian Ts in LGBT

Last updated on: May 17, 2013 at 9:47 am By Andrew Marin

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

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