
If enslavers could force a reading of Mosaic laws onto 19th century, New Covenant cotton fields, then surely a Christian slave reading Paul’s...

If enslavers could force a reading of Mosaic laws onto 19th century, New Covenant cotton fields, then surely a Christian slave reading Paul’s...

Attempt a conversation these days on nearly anything related to justice (or social justice)—police brutality, mass incarceration, sexual assault, forced labor, human trafficking—and...

The education-phobic group breached the Western consciousness for the first time.

Each of the documentaries are worth watching this year.
![A Chinese sex slave awaits her next rapist in 1800s San Francisco. [<a href="http://www.americanhistoryusa.com/static/images/slave-girl-san-francisco-1800s.jpg"target="_blank">Image credit</a>]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/slave-girl-san-francisco-1800s.jpg?fit=443%2C272&ssl=1)
Are we just now, in all our our checkered history, hoisting the flag of Sodom and Gomorrah over the national soil?

Voting out one band of self-serving politicians in favor of another profits nothing. The milk is still spoiled.
![2013 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-7.50.34-AM.png?fit=416%2C268&ssl=1)
While some states continue to ignore the problem more than twice as many states as in 2011 have enacted more stringent laws regarding...

In our eyes, we can’t imagine a Christian agency knowingly trafficking children under the guise of “they will be better off in the...
![“Nefarious: Merchant of Souls,” trafficking documentary [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-21-at-8.59.23-PM.png?fit=405%2C605&ssl=1)
Victims are often thrown into such ghastly oppression at 13 years old. Some are abducted outright, while others are lured out of poverty,...

For anyone to insinuate that the mere rendering of financial assistance following a disaster excludes a helper nation's citizens from prosecution by the...
I’m Marty Duren, a freelance writer, content creator, podcaster, and publisher in Nashville, TN. I guess that makes me an entrepreneur-of-all-trades. Formerly a social media strategist at a larger publisher, comms director at a religious nonprofit, and a pastor, Marty Duren Freelance Writing is the new business iteration of a decade-long side-hustle.
I host the Uncommontary Podcast which publishes weekly. Guests range from academics to authors to theologians to activists on subjects related to history, current events, and the impact of evangelicalism on American life. My voice is deep-fried giving rise to being labeled “a country Batman.” Find Uncommontary in your favorite podcast app.
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