Counterculture. Faith. Love.
From the category archives:
Who knew this whole ‘I’m Sorry from the Church Campaign 2010′ would go viral? Not us, I’ll tell you that much. Anyway, there have been a couple really well known sites that have publicly stated their distaste and skepticism for me, for The Marin Foundation and for our Campaign. And why should they believe us at our word? [...]
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This is literally what Christian Outreach to the LGBT Community looks like: Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org (Picture Credit goes to Michelle from Maladjusted Media)
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Here’s Part 1 We then started to talk about sexual consumerism—no, not human trafficking, but rather sexuality being consumed to fuel one’s self worth and give them validity as ‘fully human’. So often people feel that they cannot be ‘fully human’ living in the way God created us as sexual beings without the ‘sexual’ part. [...]
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I don’t know Matthew Paul Turner. I’ve never talked to him nor have I ever met him—but I now feel like he’s my BFF! Reading Hear No Evil is literally like having a conversation with your best friend. It’s full of comfort, humor and extreme awkwardness, and that’s only the first couple of pages. Why [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately. I often hear straight Christians talk about the GLBT community as ‘living in sin’. What does that mean? I’m being serious. My default is: Are we not all literally living in sin, no matter who we are or what we’re doing (Romans 3:23)? James 2:10 (my translation) says: “If [...]
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When people ask me about other books out there that focus on bridge building that I would endorse, I have responded with the same answer every time: “Unfortunately, and quite sadly, I haven’t found another book that I could get behind that I believe is a true bridge building book.” That was my answer until [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
