It is impossible to place all EC woes on presidents when the bureaucracy is the same.
It is impossible to place all EC woes on presidents when the bureaucracy is the same.
In the first century context, a walled city projected security, wholeness, a kingdom, and authority. New Jerusalem exemplifies these concepts without reference to…
The conversations we are having do not reflect that reality. The realities of being a woman in our culture are hard, and they…
The Christian gospel exists because human efforts to achieve morality are doomed to fail. Jesus perfectly fulfilled the law we could not help…
Protest, by definition, calls attention to a situation, issue, or condition. Protest with no object of concern is a parade.
There was no taller giant in the early days of television news than Edward R. Murrow.
Whatever Breitbart's motivation, followers of Jesus are forbidden from bearing false witness against their neighbor.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is less non-partisan than bipartisan, and that's bad.
As in so many cases, some critics overshot their target.
Loving those who are least like me is when I am most like Christ.
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.
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