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If we believe in justice then we cannot and should not blithely quote Romans 13 as if the Minor Prophets never scribbled a...
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If we believe in justice then we cannot and should not blithely quote Romans 13 as if the Minor Prophets never scribbled a...

My lifetime is not long enough to put into a single film the atrocities perpetrated against African Americans by White Americans during and...

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday here are fifteen great quotes from the late minister and civil rights leader.

I have never been pulled over for Driving While White, though my oldest daughter has been. Of course, she had two black men...

If we are obedient to God we will, at some point, likely contradict the laws of man. Unjust laws demand to be disobeyed....

Why did so few white followers of Jesus raise their collective roofs when a young black man--in the middle of a neighborhood street,...

Start with the "War on Drugs," go through the War on Terror, revisit the shredding of the Constitution, and the contempt with which...

No histrionics. No gory photos. No political opinion. Just two simple graphics.
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Abortion is no more about a woman's reproductive rights than Charles Manson's infatuation with The Beatles was about music appreciation.

Lecrae, Francis Chan and Mercy Me's Bart Millard are all great sports as they learn to speak Northern Irish from Rend Collective's Patrick...
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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