Colby Martin bravely answers hard questions that the Christian church avoids like the mosaic plague or worse, aggressively responds to with clobber verses meant to undermine the identities of the LGBTQIA+ community: Can one be a true Christian and actually believe that being queer is NOT a sin?
Having experienced his fair share of pain and rejection from mainstream Christianity, Colby is awake to the flaws, tragic missteps, and misplaced earnestness that too often define the direction of the church. Yet God’s vision for creation as revealed in Jesus still compels him to remain in progressive Christianity.
Colby is the author of two books (UnClobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality; and The Shift: Surviving and Thriving after Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity); he hosts a podcast with his wife, “The Kate & Colby Show,” and he and his wife founded and lead a progressive, LGBTQIA+ affirming Christian church in San Diego called Sojourn Grace Collective.
This episode covers topics like:
🔥Being fired by a church for supporting the LGBTQIA+ community
🏳️🌈Adopting with inclusion theology and disproving clobber verses
💋 Can you can be POLYAMOROUS and be a Christian?
⚓️Advice to parents of queer children
⛪️Can you *actually* be a “true Christian” and believe that being gay isn’t a sin and stay in church?
💜Sharing what it’s like to have a bisexual wife as a pastor
🙋♀️Questioning pastors and religious authority — the two questions you need to ask directly to your leaders to find out if your church is *actually* all-loving and affirming or insidiously bait and switching
🙏🏽Reckoning with deconstruction and perhaps reconstruction
✝️Exploring the idea that “Not all Christians” are part of the problem
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Learn more about Colby Martin:
Get in touch: colbymartinonline.com
UnClobber Online Course: https://courses.unclobber.com
UnClobber the Book (2nd Edition): https://amzn.to/3Jk628p
The Kate & Colby Show: thekateandcolbyshow.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colbymartin/
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