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Debra Dean Murphy

Debra Dean Murphy is associate professor of Religious Studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College and serves on the board of The Ekklesia Project. She blogs about books, movies, music, art, politics — and how religion intersects all of these arenas — at Intersections: Thoughts on Religion, Culture, and Politics. She is working on a book tentatively called Beauty, Mystery, Terror, Consolation: Poetry and the Aesthetics of Environmentalism.

 

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“Trunk or treats” are happening in church parking lots across the country in an attempt to make #Halloween rituals safer and less scary. On upholding the macabre lineage of All Hallows’ Eve — and welcoming both the risks and rewards of neighborliness.
As Christians enter Holy Week, a reflection on the drama of the Easter story through poetry, music, and history. Theatrical, disturbing, cathartic, and deeply necessary, the Christian encounter with the crucifixion is a reckoning with the violence of our era. And yet in resurrection there is hope and embrace.