Darby Kathleen Ray
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Director of the Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative
Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi

Course Offerings:

• Introduction to Religious Studies
• Religion and American Culture
• (G)race Matters: Race, Religion, & Contemporary Black America
• Suffering, Tragedy, and Liberation in the Ancient World
• Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
• Evil
• First Year Seminar

• Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Body and Spirit in the Medieval World
• African American Religious Traditions
• Introduction to New Testament and Early Christianity

• Tradition Transformers: A Seminar in History of Christian Thought
• Rethinking Jesus: Ancient and Contemporary Portrayals
• Spirit and Nature
• Contemporary Theology
• Theologies Opague: Christianities in Black, Brown, and Yellow
• Religious Autobiography

Academic Interests

• contemporary Christian thought and practice
• justice issues (economic, environmental, racial, and sexual) in relation to Christianity
• Christian theology and practice in a global context and in relation to other religious traditions
• the ethical stances and moral imagination of marginalized groups in Christian history

Publications:

• Christic Imagination: An Ethic of Incarnation and Ingenuity
  author
  Chalice Press, forthcoming 2007
• Theology That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God
  editor and contributing author
  Fortress Press, 2006
• Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes
  chapter editor and contributing author
  Fortress Press, 2005
• Deceiving the Devil: Atonement, Abuse, and Ransom
  author
  Pilgrim Press, 1998
• "A Praxis of Atonement: Confronting Evil Through Cunning and Compassion"
  in Religious Studies And Theology 18:1, June 1999
• "Location, Location, Location: Using Community Based Learning to Localize and Decolonize the Subject in the Religious Autobiography Course"
  in Teaching Theology & Religion 3:1, February 2000

Millsaps College Activities

• Member, Department of Religious Studies
• Director, Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative
• Arts & Letters Division Personnel Committee
• Academic Advising Committee
• Honor Council
• Faculty Council
• Faculty Sponsor, Millsaps Project Yellow Ribbon (suicide awareness, prevention, and support)
• Faculty Sponsor, Millsaps Canterbury Club
• Board Member, Center for Ministry

Hobbies and Interests:

• swimming
• hiking and backpacking
• canoeing
• independent films
• music
• dancing
• playing with Chandler and Elena

Professor Ray