Kenneth E. Frantz: Your book is named The Shift. What is “the shift” and why did you think it was important to write about?
Colby Martin: There's a spectrum of religious belief practice between a more conservative faith and a more progressive faith. “The shift” is this process of moving from one to the other. Over the last several years, I've interacted with thousands of people who have gone on or are in the midst of this shift. So many people have these same sorts of experiences in that journey. It can be a scary and lonely journey with lots of confusion and some resentment. The Shift is my attempt to write a sort of survival guide for this process of leaving conservative Christianity and moving toward something that's more progressive.
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