
In his latest Executive Order, dated July 6, 2012, and entitled “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions”, President Obama, under...

In his latest Executive Order, dated July 6, 2012, and entitled “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions”, President Obama, under...
Frequent readers of this blog know my appreciation for government over-reach into the lives of American citizens can be measured in negative light...
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Is student loan debt the next economic bubble to burst in the U.S.? Will most of these studious young adults ever find the...
The United States Supreme Court has allowed to stand a lower court ruling in the 2004 case of Malaika Brooks, a Seattle woman...

A pastor I once heard said When I first started preaching I preached a sermon entitled, “Ten Surefire Ways to Raise Godly Kids.”...

“I could never look like that.” –A million teen aged girls A dangerous reality in Western civilization is the temptation of young girls...

For Christian culture warriors everywhere, May 9, 2012, will be a date that lives in infamy. In an interview with ABC News President...

One of my favorite poems is ‘The Second Coming,’ by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Wikipedia notes: The poem uses Christian imagery...

We have become the Third World with a government that is corrupt, abusive, intrusive, belligerent and unbiblical.
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Read part one of this series, Christians, race, and the U.S. legal system. Recent years have given rise to what John W. Whitehead...
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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