Primarily I hope to contrast the major storyline departures of the movie with the Noah narrative in the Old Testament and references in…
Primarily I hope to contrast the major storyline departures of the movie with the Noah narrative in the Old Testament and references in…
Too many Christians are like chained dogs that have been living on a diet of gun powder and pepper sauce.
In the end Hollywood does not explore the themes of faith as much as it caricatures them.
A new long trailer has been released for the soon to be released cinematic musical version of Les Miserables. It looks and sounds…
Just a decade ago, Stephen Spielberg unleashed on cinematic audiences a dystopian future of fear, prediction and the authoritarian state. Minority Report told…
I grew up, as did others in my generation, with the pall of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) spread over us like the shadow…
The long awaited, highly anticipated final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy comes to an end with The Dark Knight Rises, which…
In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a short book entitled, Utopia, on which titular island lived a society of complete religious, social and…
Last fall a friend of mine, Jay Sanders (who you should be reading, by the way) sent me a message that he had…
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) opened today. A…
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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