This article was sent to me by a friend who is gay. I can’t quite decide if it’s hilarious or unfortunate? I’m leaning toward it being really funny…
What do you think?
Much love.
www.themarinfoundation.org
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From the category archives:
God in Culture
One year ago today I was speaking in Washington, DC on Capitol Hill during President Barack Obama’s Inauguration events. What a crazy time this past year has been. As Martin Luther King Jr. quotes have been flying around all day, here’s my favorite; and one that has shaped a huge part of how I frame [...]
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I just read one of the best conceptualizations of compassion that I’ve ever read outside of the Holy Scripture:
Hebrew [chesed]: To love tenderly, to have mercy, compassion upon anyone
“Compassion is derived from the Latin words ‘pati’ and ‘cum’ which together mean “to suffer with.” Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into [...]
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I just started reading the book of Ezekiel (as you can tell by My One Sentence Bible from today) on my yearly trek to read the Bible from cover to cover. To me, the overarching principles of the book of Ezekiel speak loud and clear about what it means to live a faithful Christian life—to [...]
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Yesterday was Black Friday and I got up at 3:20am so I could go shopping and get everyone I loved something really special. I want to briefly give you my Philosophy of Money and Spending:
I give more to the Lord than I can “afford” and then I spend the rest blessing those really special people [...]
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On this day I am thankful, among many, many other things, for one thing in particular:
That Jesus Christ came to this earth as a baby of no status or privilege, incarnating himself into a broken world and peacefully loving all of humanity to Him, even though many didn’t, and don’t, want to believe.
I am also [...]
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Yes, you read that right. I believe that God is tearing away church influence. Let me explain.
This morning while I was spending time with God I was reading the book of Jeremiah and came across something I thought extremely profound:
“2“Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message:
” ‘Hear the word [...]
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I was recently asked:
How do you think modern views of historiography have affected our ability to think theologically and ethically about our past and present experiences? Here is my answer:
Modern views of historiography, like most everything modern (or should I say postmodern?), are thoroughly rooted in a pluralistic secular movement of what it means to [...]
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This past weekend my wife and I stopped in to eat at Portillos (if you’ve ever been to Chicago you know the wonderfulness that is Portillos!). When we sat down I looked at the booth next to us and I saw a very elderly couple sitting on one side, and sitting across from them [...]
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Last week I was watching Amazing Race. One of the contestants this season is Mel White, whom many look at as the founder of the gay Christian movement (he founded the gay Christian organization Soulforce, an activist organization that works for the “freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from religious oppression through the [...]
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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
