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If you missed Part 1 of Jimmy’s story, you can check it out Here. In the summer of 2008, I loved the church, felt connected to the Body of Christ, homosexuality was clearly a sin, and I was eager to move 600+ miles away from home to begin my graduate studies in conducting. By August [...]

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It was great being on with Frank again tonight. For those of you who are visiting from getting our website on the show, please feel free to either call us at 773-572-5983, or email us at info@themarinfoundation.org. We look forward to talking soon! Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org

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Over the next week we’ll be featuring posts from a few friends of ours at The Marin Foundation that will be sharing a parts of their stories connected to faith and sexuality. We’re starting with a post written by one of our volunteers here in Chicago and she decided to write this first post anonymously. [...]

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We’re excited to be welcoming Jennifer Knapp for a stop on her Inside Out Faith tour at our next large Living in the Tension community gathering at Roscoe’s in Chicago on 3356 N. Halsted Street. The event will be start at 7pm on Thursday, May 31st. The free event is being co-sponsored by the LGBT [...]

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“Stewart Headlam” is the founder and editor of Voiceless, which strives to create “a space for dialogue between Christians, the LGBTQ community, and all of us who find ourselves standing awkwardly in between.” Headlam is an alumnus and current graduate student of Abilene Christian University, but the Voiceless zine and website are not affiliated with the [...]

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The following post was written by Kevin Harris, Director of Community Relations at The Marin Foundation. It is no secret that we as humans have a propensity to gravitate towards other individuals and ways of thinking that are familiar and reinforce the world as we already understand it. This makes sense since decreased diversity in [...]

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Last week, I had the opportunity to meet with Chris Pack, Producer for Jesus, Don’t Let Me Die Before I’ve Had Sex. After meeting with me, Chris proposed to my long time friend, Pamela, who was among the first participants of our Living in the Tension gatherings here in Chicago. Chris shares my heart for reconciliation: building bridges, loving people and living [...]

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For our next Living in the Tension community gathering on Monday, March 5th, Michael Pierce will be joining us to kick off a series of gatherings where he will be sharing insights with us in relation to his career in the field of conflict resolution and mediation. Michael will be sharing generalizable principles and models [...]

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We recently had the opportunity to share about the work of The Marin Foundation with our friend Darren Calhoun on Different Drummers, a part of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. You can check out the video below: Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org

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