Wendy Murray
Wendy Murray is a seasoned and award-winning journalist. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio and master’s degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1985.
Her early years in journalism found her living in Honduras where, for four years, she worked for the English-language newspaper Honduras This Week writing feature articles and carrying her own column titled “American Memo.” During that time she served as regional reporter for Time magazine. She returned to the U.S. and served as Associated Editor at Christianity Today magazine for the next five and a half years, and as Senior Writer for five more, through January 2005. She has written extensively for other publications such as Books & Culture, The Christian Century, and Beliefnet.com.
Her feature essays have won awards consistently and her work has been listed in The Best Christian Writing. She was cited in Brill’s Content “Credentials” as among the nations leading religious reporters. She has appeared on Chris Matthews’s “Hard Ball”and “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly” and was invited by the Carnegie Council (New York) to give a lecture on religion before an audience of world thought leaders. She served for two years as Writer-in-Residence at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. She has published nine books.
She currently lives in Assisi, Italy completing her tenth book titled In Search of Saint Francis and the Mysterious Clare for Basic Books, New York.
Her early years in journalism found her living in Honduras where, for four years, she worked for the English-language newspaper Honduras This Week writing feature articles and carrying her own column titled “American Memo.” During that time she served as regional reporter for Time magazine. She returned to the U.S. and served as Associated Editor at Christianity Today magazine for the next five and a half years, and as Senior Writer for five more, through January 2005. She has written extensively for other publications such as Books & Culture, The Christian Century, and Beliefnet.com.
Her feature essays have won awards consistently and her work has been listed in The Best Christian Writing. She was cited in Brill’s Content “Credentials” as among the nations leading religious reporters. She has appeared on Chris Matthews’s “Hard Ball”and “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly” and was invited by the Carnegie Council (New York) to give a lecture on religion before an audience of world thought leaders. She served for two years as Writer-in-Residence at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. She has published nine books.
She currently lives in Assisi, Italy completing her tenth book titled In Search of Saint Francis and the Mysterious Clare for Basic Books, New York.
