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In a day when fewer people have a biblical understanding of marriage than ever before these reminders are apropos. Marriage is not simply...
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In a day when fewer people have a biblical understanding of marriage than ever before these reminders are apropos. Marriage is not simply...

The January 2013 edition of One Minute Book Reviews includes Blood Brothers, by Elias Chacour, Ordinary Injustice, by Amy Bach, and The Insanity...
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What do you get when you add American slavery, the convict-lease system, the Jim Crow era, and the “War on Drugs”? Give up?...
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword...

Monday night we were blessed to see and hear Andrew Peterson and friends at the Ryman Theater in Nashville performing Behold the Lamb...

The Daily Beast thinks so. The well known site asked its readers to weigh-in on the issue. Gun owners and non-owners alike responded...

Over the weekend the iconic and well known comedy program, Saturday Night Live, used their “cold opening” in a memorable way. Rather than...
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This may not be art in the classic sense, and Da Vinci probably will not be brought to mind. But...
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Folks, this ain’t normal is the eighth book by the self-proclaimed “lunatic farmer” from Swoope, Virginia, Joel Salatin. Salatin, on his Polyface Farms,...

Most people who know me are aware that I supported retiring Texas congressman Ron Paul for president. I did so in 2008 and...
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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