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Colby Martin remains obstinately hopeful that the church can change the world.

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. But God’s vision for creation as revealed in Jesus still compels him - a window into a way of being human that fosters wholeness, and can move communities away from shame into vulnerable, flourishing connection.

As author of “UnClobber: Rethinking our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality” and, “The Shift: Surviving and Thriving after Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity,” Colby has emerged as one of the leading voices of the Progressive Christi ...more

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	UnClobber by Colby Martin (Goodreads Author), Glennon Doyle Melton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 2,268 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shift: Surviving and Thriving After Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity 4.25 avg rating — 268 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“So the Naaman Effect is when we receive grace and peace from God to live in a state of misalignment. We own new convictions, yet we keep them to ourselves as we attempt to stay in community with people who think and feel differently.”
― Colby Martin, UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

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“Allow me to say that again: if you were a Jewish Christian in Rome, and you agreed in any way with the Jewish prejudices and erroneous beliefs about the plight of the Gentiles (as articulated in places like the Wisdom of Solomon, and now reiterated here in Romans 1:18–32), then Paul is calling you out as being the source of the problem.”
― Colby Martin, UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

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“The only me that I knew was “pastor.” And yet, what if my position on homosexuality would deem me unfit to be one any longer? Who would I be if I weren’t a pastor?”
― Colby Martin, UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

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