Rev. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Ph.D

"De-escalating U.S. War-culture: A Primer for Peace Advocates"

In this "Great Recession," serious needs of the poor and middle class are mushrooming to greater levels with each passing month.  At the same time concern grows about the escalation of U.S. debt.  But despite all this financial constraint, an honest de-escalation of the U.S. military-industrial-corporate-think-tank-cultural complex remains unlikely.  How can this be so?  What is the underlying logic of "the complex" that advocates for peace need to understand if they are to be successful in their efforts for reform? 

Rev. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. She holds a Masters of Divinity with Honors from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. Her teaching and scholarly interests focus on Christian theology and ethics, especially regarding Christian understandings of redemption, feminist theology and ethics, and Christian ethics and war. Before becoming a college professor she worked as a parish pastor and university chaplain.  She is the author of the newly released U.S. War-culture, Sacrifice and Salvation, London, Great Britain: Equinox, Sept. 2011.