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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.
Posts By This Author
Education For More Than Global Economic Dominance
Conversion Stories and Mary Karr's Lit
The King's Speech: MLK and Tucson
Jon Stewart, the End Times, and the Season of Advent
Last October, at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,
Political Games in Dead-Serious Times
Eat, Pray, Love ... Yourself?
Eat Pray Love the movie has the makings of a summer hit, with Julia Roberts as its star and Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book as its source material.
The book was something of a phenomenon when it was published in 2006: instantly popular and penned by an accomplished writer (a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002) who was immensely likeable on the talk-show circuit.
Inception: The Art of Paying Attention in Books and Film
I've been reading Paul Harding's debut novel, Tinkers, which was this year's surprise Pulitzer Prize winner. It's a modest tome -- slim of build, light in the hand.
Flag vs. Font: Pledging Our Allegiance
The Moral of "Toy Story 3"
Immigration, Children, and the Way of Jesus
Last month, an encounter between Michelle Obama and a Latina child in a suburban Maryland school brought into sharp relief one of the most pressing issues surrounding U.S.
Grief, Repentance, and the BP Oil Spill
The current crisis in the Gulf of Mexico is being packaged and sold as a story of blame and gross incompetence, and there's plenty of both to go around.
Civility and a Hermeneutic of Generosity
We are Exiles Who Follow an Alien, Undocumented, Migrant Messiah
There's a scene in the film Food, Inc. that reveals the hypocrisy at the heart of U.S.