{{for|the visual artist and arts educator|Wendy Murray (artist)}} '''Wendy Murray''' (formerly '''Wendy Murray Zoba''', born January 1956) is a writer best known for her books about religion.
Wendy Murray 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. She also received membership in Hiram's Phi Beta Kappa society. She completed a master's degree in theological studies (New Testament) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, S. Hamilton, Massachusetts, graduating magna cum laude in 1985.
She lived in Honduras, Central America for four years where she served as regional correspondent for Time magazine. She worked as writer and editor at Christianity Today magazine from 1995 to 2000 and served as senior writer there through 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ |title=Home |website=christianitytoday.com}}</ref> Her work has taken her all over the world and her feature essays have won awards consistently{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}. 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 York City.<ref>{{cite web|last=The Carnegie Council|title=The Voice for Ethics in International Policy|url=http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/about/annual_reports/annual_report_2005.html/_res/id=sa_File1/CCEIA_2005_annualreport.pdf|work=p.17|date=2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914231224/http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/about/annual_reports/annual_report_2005.html/_res/id=sa_File1/CCEIA_2005_annualreport.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-14}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=Generation 2K|year=1999|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=978-0830822119}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=Day of Reckoning, Columbine and the Search for America's Soul|year=2001|publisher=Brazos Press|isbn=978-1587430312}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=J I Packer Answers Questions for Today|year=2001|publisher=Tyndale|isbn=978-0842336154|pages=144}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray zoba|first=Wendy|title=Sacred Journeys|year=2002|publisher=Tyndale|isbn=978-0842355094|pages=224}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=Facing Forward|year=2002|publisher=Tyndale|isbn=978-0842355131|pages=208}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=On Broken Legs|year=2004|publisher=NavPress|isbn=978-1576836439|pages=[https://archive.org/details/onbrokenlegsshat0000murr/page/176 176]|url=https://archive.org/details/onbrokenlegsshat0000murr/page/176}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=Meet Me in Managua|year=2005|publisher=Kregel|isbn=978-0825441608|pages=[https://archive.org/details/meetmeinmanagua00wend/page/128 128]|url=https://archive.org/details/meetmeinmanagua00wend/page/128}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=Lessons From Lucy|year=2004|isbn=978-1576836446|pages=48|publisher=Nav Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Murray Zoba|first=Wendy|title=The Beliefnet Guide to Evangelical Christianity|year=2005|publisher=Three Leaves|isbn=978-0385514521|pages=[https://archive.org/details/beliefnetguideto00zoba/page/144 144]|url=https://archive.org/details/beliefnetguideto00zoba/page/144}}</ref> Her book ''A Mended and Broken Heart, the Life and Love of Francis of Assisi''<ref>{{cite book|last=Murray|first=Wendy|title=A Mended and Broken Heart, the Life and Love of Francis of Assisi|url=https://archive.org/details/mendedbrokenhear00murr|url-access=registration|year=2008|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-03232-7|pages=304}}</ref> 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. Her eleventh book, and first novel, ''The Warrior King'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Murray|first=Wendy|title=The Warrior King|year=2011|publisher=Ecco Qua Press|isbn=978-0615406084|pages=312}}</ref> came out 2010.
Murray is the daughter of Myles N. Murray (deceased), chemist of founder of the Industrial Electronic Rubber Company (IER),{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}} and Barbara Bentel Murray. She was married in 1978 and divorced in 2002.
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