Andrew Marin - Love is an Orientation (N54)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2012
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Marin grew up in a conservative church, and much to his surprise developed a calling and passion to build bridges between the Church and the LGBTQ community. So he moved into a gay part of town, and spent all his time getting to know people in gay bars. Ss you can imagine, there's plenty for us to learn from the remarkable journey he's been on.Â
“Christians love to hang out with other Christians. I’m over it. Get outside your church, stop hanging out with Christians, have actual friends in the real world that don’t believe the same stuff that we do.” - Andrew MarinÂ
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | My name's Dave Ward. |
| 0:20.7 | And this is Tim Nush, which is anyone will notice. |
| 0:24.8 | On this month's show, we are speaking to Andrew Marin of the Marin Foundation. We're going to be |
| 0:31.2 | Skyping him in all the way from Chicago, I think. Yeah, it's going to be our first Skype interview. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:39.8 | And yeah, really, really interesting guy, Andrew, wrote a book called Love is an Orientation, |
| 0:45.7 | which describes his missionary work in the gay community. So he moved into the gay community |
| 0:52.0 | in, I think it's Chicago, and has just started a kind of a ministry, almost a reconciliation between the church and the gay community. |
| 1:01.3 | Absolutely fascinating story and a brilliant book. So really excited about this interview. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm really looking forward to it as well because that obviously is a big issue at the moment in the news and everything. |
| 1:13.0 | So I just want to hear what he has to say. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, yeah, lots of chat about gay marriage and stuff, isn't there? |
| 1:18.9 | In the UK, I suspect he's in America as well. |
| 1:21.3 | So we can ask him that question, in fact, can't me? |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, it should be good. |
| 1:26.1 | So we'll be back in just a moment when we get our Skype |
| 1:30.1 | connection up and running with Andrew Marin. Without any travelling. That's nice, isn't it? Yeah, |
| 1:35.1 | makes a change. Yeah, because usually, we just sat in our lounge, just had a nice meal, |
| 1:39.9 | a cup of tea, don't have to do a four-hour drive anywhere. I don't know why we don't do this more often. |
| 1:45.8 | It makes a lot of sense. |
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