Sitemap - 2024 - Perspective Shift by Colby Martin

Reason #1: It's a Justice Issue

To Those Who Silently Affirm LGBTQ People

Any Appetite Left for Christmas Music?

Eight Reasons Why LGBTQ Affirming Pastors Might Stay Quiet

Pastors Who Affirm LGBTQ People (but Aren't Public about it)

Perfect Parenting Doesn't Guarantee Results

How Do You Feel About "Keep Christ in Christmas?"

Why Would You?

Is Christianity Bigger than the Bible?

Christianity Might be More Simple than You Think

Oh Right, THIS Feeling Again

Is Being Christian a Subjective Experience?

When Christianity Slows Down and Gets Simple Again

Do You Have the Faith to Grow into a More Complex Faith?

The (Beginning) Simplicity of the Christian Faith

Q: My son is gay and I'm not sure he is a Christian. How do I approach him?

To Love (the Idea) of Jesus

Taylor Swift, Tacos, and Jesus

They Say the "Firsts" are the Worst

How Do I Reconcile the Disconnect Between My Understanding of Jesus with the Big 'C' Church?

Here's Why (and How) I Became a Progressive Person/Christian/Voter

Is Being Gay an "Unforgivable" Sin?

Drano for the Heart

According to This, My Faith Has Never Been Stronger

I was like baby Moana responding to the ocean (of mushrooms).

Why Optical Illusions Give Me Hope for a Better World

Why Do Some See 'The Last Supper' and 'a Man,' Contrary to Competing Evidence?

Can Being "Progressive" Make You Less Happy?

Believing homosexuality to be "immoral" is a choice. Plain and simple.

I Try to be a Conduit for Love, but Here are Some Things that Clog Me Up

Five Questions With: Queer Creator, Mike Maeshiro

You're Always Connected to God (Even Though It Feels Like You're Not)

My New (but Also Old) Life Purpose and Calling

Five Questions With: Queer Creator, Molly Byrom

Five Questions With: Queer Creator, Matthew Paul Turner

Self Love Can be a Way to Love God (it Doesn't Have to be "Idolatry")

Just Because You Fulfill a Desire Doesn't Mean You're Worshipping It

The Self is "Not Corrupted by Sin"

Is "Being True to Yourself" (as a Gay Person) a Form of Idolatry?

Five Questions With: Pastor Jennifer Fisher

My First Panic Attack (am I dying?)

Five Questions With: Pastor Tyler Sit

How My Mushroom Journey was (like) the Hero's Journey

Five Questions With: PASTOR Samantha Beach Kiley

The True Story of Why I Care about Hair

5 Responses for When Gay Christians Forsake Their Gayness and Find a Kind of Happiness

Five Questions With: PASTOR Zach Lambert

An Open Letter Pushback of Dr Rebecca McLaughlin's Non-LGBTQ-Inclusive Article on The Gospel Coalition

Five Questions With: AUTHORS, Mariko Clark and Rachel Eleanor

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? Yeah, so did other people (ie, folx who wrote parts of the Bible).

Sometimes You're In Great Need Because of Bad Choices AND Because Life is Unpredictable

Five Questions With: AUTHOR, Sarah Bessey

If You Build It... Will They Come?

Five Questions With: AUTHOR, Julie Christiansen

Exposed as a Fraud

Five Questions With: AUTHOR, John Pavlovitz

Five Questions With: AUTHOR, Josh Scott

Resurrection Does Not Equal Perfection

What's So Offensive about the Cross?

The Bible isn't THAT Important

For this Divorced Dad, I'm (Trying to) Focus on Quality over Quantity

Sin Matters

Study Shows: The More You Read the Bible, the More Liberal You Become

Since Everyone Changes, May we Update our Views on Them

When You Say One Thing but Then Do Another

When People Really, Really Screw Up

This Shift in Perspective is Huge

If Jesus Could Value (parts of) Judaism, then Can I Value (parts of) Evangelicalism?

Lots of New People... Welcome!

Why Demons Feared Jesus

Five Suggestions to Improve Your Rebuking

Rebuking in the Gospels. What Gives?

Everything is a Give and Take

What is an "Evil" or "Unclean" Spirit, Anyway?

Jesus' First Public Act was a Sermon, and it 🤯 (but Why?)

Don't Wait Until You Think You're Ready

People Grow Softer as they Age (Including St Paul)

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Harassing (I mean, "Evangelizing") Innocent Bystanders

Fill the Gap with Love

Anger is Not My Path

Soaring Through Space (What the Trip looked like at first)

Side Effects of Anger

When and Why I Finally Hit the "Anger" Stage of Grief