
While you were crawling out from under that rock Missouri representative Todd Akin was busy crawling under it. In a recent interview, in...

While you were crawling out from under that rock Missouri representative Todd Akin was busy crawling under it. In a recent interview, in...
I have been blogging for nearly 9 years, and truly enjoy the medium. It has provided a way for me to engage others,...
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According to a report in Algemeiner, and reported by WND.com, numerous sources reported protesters in Egypt were crucified on trees. From a translated...
The Olympics brought tennis to my mind for the first time since, oh, Wimbledon two weeks prior. But, as the games progressed producing...

From the news release: LifeWay Christian Resources and Student Life, Inc., minister to more than 100,000 teenagers each year as two of the...
The Association of Religion Data archives is reporting that seminarians own a huge slice of the $1 trillion student debt pie. The Center...
Dear presidential candidates: Barack Obama, the Democratic incumbent, Mitt Romney, presumptive Republican nominee, and Gary Johnson, Libertarian presidential candidate. It is my hope...
Below are the next installments of Louis Theroux’ documentary, The Most Hated Family in America. If it does not auto start at 4:10,...

To bring this recent series on the Westboro cult to a close, I wanted to point your attention to a BBC documentary entitled...

After my post asking that Fred Phelps’ family religious group be termed a cult a few people wondered at the wisdom of the...
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.
Missional Press publishes books by Christian writers with the goal of impacting people with the good news of Jesus.
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