October 4, 2013/
In the end Hollywood does not explore the themes of faith as much as it caricatures them.
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July 24, 2013/
Now, more than 10 years following the final pane of Calvin & Hobbes comes a documentary: Dear Mr. Watterson.
January 4, 2013/
Since the opening of Les Miserables on Christmas day, I have read no shortage of reviews from the professional critic and lay person...
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November 8, 2012/
A new long trailer has been released for the soon to be released cinematic musical version of Les Miserables. It looks and sounds...
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September 4, 2012/
Just a decade ago, Stephen Spielberg unleashed on cinematic audiences a dystopian future of fear, prediction and the authoritarian state. Minority Report told...
July 20, 2012/
The long awaited, highly anticipated final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy comes to an end with The Dark Knight Rises, which...
May 29, 2012/
Last night the History Channel introduced a new Kevin Costner produced mini-series, Hatfields and McCoys, about the original family feud. Here are a...
March 26, 2012/
In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a short book entitled, Utopia, on which titular island lived a society of complete religious, social and...
March 23, 2012/
Last fall a friend of mine, Jay Sanders (who you should be reading, by the way) sent me a message that he had...
December 22, 2010/
The widely anticipated release of Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit opens today at theaters nationwide. Not considered, by the Coen brothers anyway,...
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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.