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November 30, 2013/
This video by The Maccabeats (a nice play on Maccabees) is every bit as good as Sandler's comic songs while enlightening viewers to...
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![“I have no Daddy” [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-13-at-11.12.48-AM.png?fit=456%2C222&ssl=1)
November 13, 2013/
Pretty sure the drill instructor did not see this coming.
November 2, 2013/
I'm not sure if every Virgin Mobile flight will feature this 5:00 video in place of "Please return your seats to the upright...
![What Happens to People Who Do Not Hear the Gospel? [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/marty_logo_011.jpg?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1){kind=logo}
October 5, 2013/
We've lost our grasp on the severity of sin and have forgotten the offense it is to God. As a result we have...
![Bono impersonates Bill Clinton at #CGI2013 [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Screen-Shot-2013-09-24-at-9.16.00-AM.png?fit=623%2C315&ssl=1)
September 24, 2013/
Not perfect, but not bad either. Bono of U2 impersonates former president Bill Clinton.
September 13, 2013/
You were slaughtered, and You redeemed people for God by Your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.
![Infanticide: the old barbarism is new again [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Infanticide.png?fit=650%2C520&ssl=1)
July 30, 2013/
Until recently only a few far left doctors and ethicists dare defend infanticide. Now, in the morbid and rabid defense of abortion-on-demand, the...
![Dear Mr. Watterson: A Calvin & Hobbes documentary [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dmw-tumbler-icon-poster.jpg?fit=491%2C717&ssl=1){kind=icon}
July 24, 2013/
Now, more than 10 years following the final pane of Calvin & Hobbes comes a documentary: Dear Mr. Watterson.
![Clarke and Dawe: The best satirists you’ve never seen [VIDEO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.martyduren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/John-Clarke.png?fit=500%2C264&ssl=1)
July 18, 2013/
Clarke and Dawe have worked together as a team for more than 25 years. The unsuspecting have on more than one occasion believed...
July 17, 2013/
How do people respond when a white dude, a black dude, and a pretty blond all act as if they are committing a...
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Hi, I'm Marty Duren
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.
I’m a longtime blogger at Kingdom in the Midst, where, over the course of many years, I’ve written a lot of words.