The tendency toward anti-learning to shield kids from hard truths about history—and potentially about themselves—is a road to a very dark place.
The tendency toward anti-learning to shield kids from hard truths about history—and potentially about themselves—is a road to a very dark place.
Mosaic law in hand did not lead to Mosaic law in heart nor does propositional truth in the Word inexorably lead to righteousness.
If enslavers could force a reading of Mosaic laws onto 19th century, New Covenant cotton fields, then surely a Christian slave reading Paul’s…
A tradition that marks the peaceful transfer of power between American presidents is a hand-written letter from the outgoing president to the incoming…
Our willingness to trade away spiritual power and biblical witness for political soup and a moldy baguette is a sorrowful example of Paul's…
Having written of his experiences, and noting the hollowness of Christianity in the South—indeed its fraudulent nature—Douglass felt he need to clarify his…
It is neither masculinity nor heroism that is toxic. But the expectation that wounded warriors should man-up and play the part despite their…
We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember with equal admiration…
There was no taller giant in the early days of television news than Edward R. Murrow.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is less non-partisan than bipartisan, and that's bad.
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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