Sitemap - 2025 - Perspective Shift by Colby Martin

Here's Why this Space has been Quiet Lately.

Back When "Progressive" Meant Hope, Change, and Creativity.

When the Evangelical World Stopped Being Home

Grieve or Celebrate? It Depends Who Died.

On Celebrating the Killing of... Osama Bin Laden

Who's Responsible for the Lost Being Lost?

Better Ways to Read the Bible

Grateful for Three Years (and Counting) of God Providing Manna

How I’ve Failed at Friendship — and What I’m Learning

Confessions of a Not-So-Great Friend

Livestream Bonus Episode of The Keep Christ in Christian Podcast

I'm Still Sore from the Whiplash of Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

Not Sure if I'm Proud of What I Did at PRIDE Three Years Ago

Religion, Politics, and What's Broken My Brain for Ten Years

Love Changes Us... But Why?

Why We Got Divorced (and How I Talk About it)

Queer & Christian

No One Plans to Get Divorced. But 4 in 10 Couples Do. Why?

A Beloved Theologian Says, "Don't Imitate Jesus"

The Night I Tried to Impress both Jesus and a Girl at the Same Time

Christianity Should Feel MORE Like Jesus... Not Less.

Announcement: New Podcast Coming!

The Lopsided Story of My Parent's Divorce

"On fire for the Lord!" My Early Days of Loving Jesus

What to Do with Friendships after The-Thing-That-Brought-You-Together has Ended

Not an Oxymoron: Why LGBTQ Affirming Christianity Makes Sense

Adult Friendships: How... What.. Who?!

Reason #10: You Won't Believe How Good it Gets

My Own Theological Trajectory of Understanding Jesus

Reason #9: Better Short-Term Pain than Long-Term Withering

Is the "Jesus" in the Gospels the Same "Jesus" Who was Born to Mary?

Are "Jesus" and "Christ" the Same Thing?

Reason #8: You'll Regret Not Doing it Sooner

Post-Divorce, this Low just Gets Deeper and Deeper

Christianity Should Sound Like Jesus, Right?

How Something Can Sound Like "Christianity" Without Sounding Anything Like Jesus

Franklin Graham Sounded Like Christianity; Mariann Budde Sounded Like Jesus

Am I Wrong? Maybe Worship Does Aid in Discipleship...

Do You Have to BE Christian in Order to be "a Christian?"

Reason #7: Options Abound for Non-Affirming Christians

Some Who Say they "Love Jesus" May Not Actually "be Christian." Here's How.

Reason #6: It's an Act of Solidarity

Reason #5: Discipleship Should Cost You

This May be the Biggest Perspective Shift I've Experienced in Years

Reason #4: This is Our Mess to Clean Up

Reason #3: Your Silence is Not Helping

Reason #2: People are Suffering