Background
She grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio (1980), majoring in religion and graduating magna cum laude.
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Wendy Murray
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Education
She completed a master’s degree in theological studies (New Testament) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South. Hamilton, Massachusetts, graduating magna cum laude in 1985.
Career
Wendy Murray is a seasoned, well-traveled and award-winning journalist. She also received membership in Hiram’s Phi Beta Kappa society. She lived in Honduras, Central America for four years where she served as regional correspondent for Time magazine.
She has published extensively in other journals, including Books & Culture, The Christian Century, and Beliefnet.com.
She was cited in Brill’s Content as being numbered among the nation’s leading religion reporters. She has appeared on “Chris Matthew’s Hard Ball,” “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly” and was invited to speak before a select group of thought leaders by the Carnegie Council in New New York
She has served as Writer-in-Residence at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts (2004–2005) and adjunct professor of Communication Arts (2008–2011). She has taught in Gordon College"s international studies program in Orvieto, Italy.
She has published 10 nonfiction books
Her eleventh book, and first novel, The Warrior King, came out 2010.
Achievements
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Her work has taken her all over the world and her feature essays have won awards consistently. Her book A Mended and Broken Heart, the Life and Love of Francis of Assisi has won solid and enthusiastic support from the Franciscan community, both in America and in Assisi, Italy, where she lived during the writing of the book Murray is the daughter of Myles N. Murray (deceased), chemist of founder of the Industrial Electronic Rubber Company (IER), now called IERFujikura and Barbara Bentel Murray.
