About
Andrew Marin (@Andrew_Marin and www.facebook.com/Marin.Andrew) is the President and Founder of The Marin Foundation (www.themarinfoundation.org), a non-profit organization that works to build bridges between the LGBT community and the Church through biblical and social education, scientific research and diverse community gatherings. Their unique approach strategically partners with both religious and LGBT organizations to make a sustainable difference in today’s religious and secular cultures. The Marin Foundation is also conducting the largest national scientific research study ever done in the LGBT community regarding spirituality and religion. Andrew has appeared on various national radio and TV programs, and his sermon Homophobia and Bridging from within the Evangelical Church—given on Capitol Hill the night before the Inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009—is archived in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. Andrew blogs daily at www.loveisanorientation.com and is the author of the award winning book, Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Communtiy (InterVarsity Press, 2009), which has has won more awards than any other individual book in the long-standing history of InterVarsity Press. He and his wife, Brenda, live in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago.
*Andrew’s book Love is an Orientation has won:
Golden Canon Leadership Book Award for one of the Best 10 Overall Books of 2009 by Leadership Journal
Culture Award for Outreach Magazine’s 2009 Resources of the Year
One of the Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 by RELEVANT Magazine
One of the Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 by the Englewood Review of Books
Lime Award for one of the 10 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2009 by the publication The Christian Manifesto
Click here to download for free the Introduction to Andrew’s book and learn the circumstances of what led a straight, Bible-banging homophobe to get started on this bridge building path.
In March 2011, Besides the Bible named Love is an Orientation as one of the “100 Books That Have, Should, Or Will Create Christian Culture”
Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love.
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