Debra Dean Murphy
Debra Dean Murphy is assistant professor of religion at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She blogs at Intersections: Thoughts on Religion, Culture and Politics and at ekklesiaproject.org.
Blog Posts by Debra Dean Murphy
Posted by Debra Dean Murphy 9 weeks 2 days ago
You remember Abu Ghraib: the correctional facility in Baghdad where such atrocities took place that the prison’s very name is now synonymous with and shorthand for torture, degradation, military...
Posted by Debra Dean Murphy 16 weeks 2 hours ago
“The poor will always be with you,” Jesus once said, and for centuries his followers have struggled to understand what he meant. Or maybe not. “The poor will always be with you” — especially if you’...
Posted by Debra Dean Murphy 32 weeks 3 days ago
In our own time the "jobs" rhetoric from both the right and the left ignores the power grabs and power differentials that led to the hemorrhaging of American jobs in the first place. The simple...
Posted by Debra Dean Murphy 36 weeks 4 days ago
I'm sure it will end on September 12 when the news media go back to reporting the most urgent question of our time -- which GOP candidate will win the tea party debate on Monday night? -- but this...
Posted by Debra Dean Murphy 38 weeks 4 days ago
When our ideas about nature come primarily from Sierra Club calendars or selected snippets from Thoreau, an east coast earthquake and monster hurricane (in the same week) are powerful wake-up calls....
Articles by Debra Dean Murphy
Four books that encourage people of faith to bring more light and less heat to the public square—and to our pews.
