{{Short description|American journalist}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2018}} '''William Murchison''' (February 3, 1942 – October 8, 2025<ref>[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2025/10/16/former-dallas-morning-news-columnist-william-bill-murchison-dies-at-age-83/ | Former Dallas Morning News Columnist William Murchison Dies at 83], The Dallas Morning News, 2025-10-16</ref>) was a nationally syndicated political columnist in the United States.<ref name="End Times">{{cite news |title=End Times? |url=http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2009/may/13/edrelig_20090512-181422-ar-43596/ |newspaper=Richmond Times-Dispatch |publisher=Media General |date=2009-05-13 |accessdate=2011-01-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005234857/http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2009/may/13/edrelig_20090512-181422-ar-43596/ |archivedate=2012-10-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Murchison was normally of a conservative political persuasion. He was also a regular contributor to Watchdog.org, ''Chronicles'' and ''The Lone Star Report''.
==Education== Murchison obtained his degree from Stanford University and the University of Texas.
==Career== Prior to retiring in 2001, he worked as an editor for ''The Dallas Morning News''. Murchison contributed to a number of national publications which include: the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''National Review'', ''The Weekly Standard'', and ''First Things''. He also frequently spoke across the country at colleges and many other forums. He also served, for five years, as a Radford Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Baylor University.<ref name=Home>{{cite web|title=William P. Murchison|url=http://williammurchison.com|publisher=William Murchison|accessdate=10 September 2013}}</ref>
==Books== He was the author of several books including: *''Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity''<ref name="End Times"/> and a volume about the mid-1990s rise of the religious right *''Reclaiming Morality in America'', 1994, Thomas Nelson Publishers<ref name="Wells">{{cite news |title=Author says morality prescription can cure society's ills |author=Wells, Valerie |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DH&p_theme=dh&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1013D9C02347D76D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |newspaper=Herald & Review |date=1996-01-13 |accessdate=2011-01-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024073735/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DH&p_theme=dh&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1013D9C02347D76D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |archivedate=2012-10-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''There's More To Life Than Politics'', 1998, Spence Publishing Company *''Those Gasoline Lines and how They Got There'', 1980, Fisher Institute
==Organizations== He was in addition a member of the Philadelphia Society and was formerly a Director of the Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer.
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