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In the early days of the Internet, before what we now know as social media, people exchanged ideas in forums...
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In the early days of the Internet, before what we now know as social media, people exchanged ideas in forums...

The full text of President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United...
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Remember the recent dust-up over the news outlet posting gun-owner names and addresses online? They took the map offline. Here’s...
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I’m still looking for the one that calls for the confiscation of all legal weapons. (See a brief explanation on...

Folks on one side of the aisle have been off the rails about the possibility of President Obama’s executive orders...

Over the last year the social media site Pinterest has grown at an exponential rate. The site has more recipes,...

A few months back the twitters and blogosphere erupted over a song by hip-hop artist, Propaganda. I wrote about it...

A meme circulating heavily this morning has to do with President Obama’s scheduled speech on gun control. According to White...
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When you see an image of a woman who is presented passively, and who demonstrates no other attributes aside from...

If only our president was moved to compassion over the plight of unborn children as he was after the tragedy...
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.
Missional Press publishes books by Christian writers with the goal of impacting people with the good news of Jesus.
I’m a longtime blogger at Kingdom in the Midst, where, over the course of many years, I’ve written a lot of words.
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