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

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas,...

Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early twentieth-century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major...

01. HOW CAN YOU TELL IF TWO ADULTS EATING DINNER AT A RESTAURANT ARE IN LOVE? "Just see if the man picks up the check. That's how you can...

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, this moving drama tells the story of a racist old widower who is ultimately touched by Grace and...

A man had been lost and walking in the desert for about five days. One hot day, he comes to the home of a preacher. Tired and weak, he...

01. A Sunday School teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible -- Psalm 23. She gave...

During a recent ecumenical gathering, a secretary rushed in shouting, "The building is on fire!!!" The METHODISTS gathered in the corner...

These are the words Dr. Ida Scudder, spoke to her first batch of graduating doctors in 1922, “You will not only be curing diseases, but...

Please watch this video from Julian's YOU TUBE CHANNEL called THE AWAKENING. A video of a friend who has changed her way of life. Please...

Numbers 6:24-26 says, “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up...

An honest man was being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow just in front of him. He...

Me: Hello God. God: Hello... Me: I’m falling apart. Can you put me back together? God: I'd rather not. Me: Why? God: Because you're not a...

A Baptist preacher went to see a member of the community and invited him to come to Church on Sunday morning. The man was a producer of...

I like many others had not heard much about these American missionaries who spent most of their life doing missionary work in Burma (now...

And we thought we had problems! If Noah had lived in the United States in the last ten years, the story may have gone something like...

A man walking along a California beach was deep in prayer. All of a sudden, he said out loud, "Lord, grant me one wish." Suddenly the sky...

This morning when I was reading the Bible, this verse stood out for me and this is why I decided I needed to write this post. "Watch out!...

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama XIV The meaning of...

In the movie The Notebook Noah Calhoun must introduce himself to his wife, Allie, every day. After more than 50 years together, Allie has...

There is a hymn called “Through all the changing scenes of life” which most of us would have heard many times in your life. The first...