Dr. Heather Murray Elkins

Dr. Elkins is Professor of worship, preaching and the arts at The Theological School and Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University. She began her teaching career as an instructor in the first bi-lingual independent school on the Navaho Reservation. During her pastoral career she has served as a local church pastor, a truck stop chaplain, a university chaplain, and an academic dean. She taught Liturgical Theology at Ewah Woman's University in Seoul Korea, and offers a cross-cultural course in Appalachian Studies every other year. Her current research is in the area of cultural studies, liturgy. and preaching.

Education: B.A., Prescott College, 1970; M.A., University of Arizona, 1972; M.Div., Duke University, 1977; Ph.D., Drew University, 1991

Publications:

The Holy Stuff of Life: Stories, Prayers, and Poems, Pilgrim Press, 2006

Wising Up: Rituals for Women, Pilgrim Press, 2005

Preaching in the Context of Worship, edited by David M. Greenhaw and Ronald J. Allen, Chalice Press, 2000. Contains the chapter:"Altar-ing the World: Community-forming Word and Worship by Heather Murray Elkins

Worshiping Women: Reforming God's People for Praise, Abingdon Press, 1994.

Word, Table, and Song: Essays in Celebration of Howard Hageman, edited by Heather Murray Elkins and Edward C. Zaragoza, Scarecrow Press, 1996.