Rev Shirley Murphy
The thoughts, reflections, faith stories and meanderings of an 
Anglican Priest

Living in too much of a hurry and always wanting to be a doer, doer, doer of work, ministry etc. has been the downfall of many people. It...

The text for Beatitudes for a Global Pandemic was written by Jayne Manfredi, based on Matthew Chapter 5 Sources...

Our lives are full of loss and grief. Though there are times we experience great swells of joy, we also experience deep depths of sorrow....

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others. —Winston Churchill...

This is a Psalm of David that he composed when his son Absalom started a "coup" to overthrow his father and take over the kingdom. Like...

In the midst of every personal or national tragedy, the cry of the human heart is very much, ‘Where is God?’ The problem of pain and...

Movie-goers boarded boats floating on the shimmering waters of a Tel Aviv lake on Thursday for a test screening at Israel's first...

There’s a part of me that just wants to scream, “Enough is enough! Make it stop. How much more can we take?” I am talking about the...

Since the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, many of us, even those who have not been infected...

Psalm 23 is undoubtedly one of the best-known passages in the Bible. Most of us learned it as children and it continues to be a comfort...