Jennifer Lynn Hatmaker (née King; born 1974)
[ is an American author, speaker, blogger, and television presenter.
She has been featured in '' Christianity Today'' magazine. She and her then-husband Brandon, joined by their five children, host the HGTV series '' Your Big Family Renovation''. She has one ''New York Times'' bestselling book, ''For the Love''.
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Ministry
Hatmaker and her then-husband, Brandon, founded Austin New Church located in Austin, Texas. She remains on the church's board. She was thought to be a successor to Houston evangelist Beth Moore
Wanda Elizabeth "Beth" Moore (born Wanda Elizabeth Green, June 16, 1957) is an American Anglican evangelist, author, and Bible teacher. She is president of Living Proof Ministries, a Christian organization she founded in 1994 to teach women to k ...
who has been a mentor and a headliner in the Women of Faith tours.[ She headlines women's events, parenting and adoption conferences, and participates in a variety of social service ministries such as the Legacy Collective which has been active in Texas hurricane recovery.
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LGBT advocacy
In April 2016 Hatmaker called for the full inclusion of LGBT people into the Christian community. She reiterated her position in October 2016, and as a result, LifeWay Christian Resources
Lifeway Christian Resources, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is the Christian media publishing and distribution division of the Southern Baptist Convention and provider of church business services. Until the end of their physical retail presenc ...
decided to discontinue selling her publications.
Since the 2016 presidential election she alleges that she has been receiving death threats for making public statements critical of Donald Trump and challenging evangelical Christian attitudes towards LGBT people, and her family has been harassed by the community where she lives in Buda, Texas
Buda ( ) is a city in Hays County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,108 in 2020, up from 7,295 counted in 2010. Buda is part of the Greater Austin, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metropolitan statistical area and is one of Austin, Texas, ...
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Personal life
In 1993, Hatmaker married Brandon Hatmaker. They have five children, two of whom were adopted. In September 2020, Hatmaker announced on her social media streams that she and Brandon were getting divorced, and described it as "completely unexpected".
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External links
Personal website
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1974 births
Living people
American Christian writers
American bloggers
American women television personalities
People from Buda, Texas
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American women bloggers
21st-century American women writers
Television personalities from Texas