Sitemap - 2022 - Perspective Shift by Colby Martin

That Time I Accidentally Sounded Anti-Semitic

So Like, Why Was this Story Told Again?

From Graphic Design to Pastoral Ministry

A Children's Prayer Book Addressing God as "Mama"

Thoughts on Welcoming Back a "Restored" Pastor

"The Bible Clearly States"

Don't Mess Up, Be Good

It's the Kindness, For Me

Is it God, or is it Your Idea of God?

I Became a Pastor so Others Would Think Me Smart

"Your Jesus is not from the Bible"

When the Storm Hits, Just Stay

My Earliest Memory of What a Pastor is

What the Words "Noah" and "Ark" Tell us About God

TRYING

God Has a Heart?! A Novel Idea!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT(S): New Season of Life, Who Dis?

Changing Well Known Details to Make a Point

This Week on Social Media: Thoughts on Compliments?

There's More than One Ancient Flood Story

The Myth of the Great Flood

Reconsidering My Seven Year Old Self

It's the End of (Some) Worlds, but Do You Feel Fine?

When "Good People" treat others Horribly (but don't notice or care)

You're Invited to a Live, UnClobber Virtual Workshop

Only God Can Judge (But also, Maybe God Doesn't Judge?)

But is it True ENOUGH?

It's Not Our Job to Change People

If you don't love your Self can you really love others?

Today, I am so sad for (almost) everyone

Three tools scholars use to evaluate the reliability of what Jesus really said and did.

Your Beliefs Do Not Come From God or From the Bible

The Queering of the Church

The Fetishization of Angry Jesus

Did you hear the one about Jesus?

How do we even know anything about Jesus?

Humans becoming God(like), plus other worship-worthy-Beings

A New (Expanded) Edition of UnClobber!

Even ancient Israelites saw Divinity along a continuum

Dear 20 year old me, one day you'll see the Bible in a whole new way.

The gods, us humans, and all the stops in between

We Can't Just Simply Read the Bible (Alone) and Declare It Sufficient for Comprehension

Did you hear the one about Jesus "becoming" God?

As an 8 year old, when I lost my nuclear family, I lost my sense of "church as family" too.

Celebrating Makers in March

Five Reasons Why Affirming Christians Should Leave Their Non-Affirming Church

Why I Think Parents (Especially) Should Leave Their Non-Affirming Churches

SHOULD People Leave their Non-Affirming Churches?

Five Reasons Why (Affirming) Christians Say they Stay at their (Non-LGBTQ-Affirming) Church