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

This is an interview by Kitty Parsons of Pembrokeshire Online with me on the true meaning of Christmas from a Christian's persepctive....

The music of Christmas is everywhere. In fact, we have heard for weeks already choirs singing the familiar Christmas tunes at carols by...

This is my Christmas message for 2020. This video was produced by my husband Julian. Please listen, like and share. God bless you all :)...

Being prepared is really important. Whether talking about preparing for an exam, a trip overseas or a dinner party. The 19th-century...

“Among you stands one whom you do not know.” (John 1:6-8) Those are John’s words to the religious authorities whom come to him. They are...

Have you been at a point in your life when you’ve said, “This just doesn’t make any sense!” Or maybe you’ve asked the question, “Why has...

The third Sunday of Advent is known as “Gaudete Sunday.” While the theme of Advent is a focus on the coming of Jesus in three ways: his...

"At last meditating day and night, by the mercy of God, I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that through which the...

Pride is universal—something we all deal with, ancient as Adam and relevant as the morning news. Yet we don’t always see it, for it grows...

Kids are waiting for the end of the school year and of course, then it’s time to wait for Christmas. Almost every day we are involved in...

SHE HAS BEEN CALLED A SAINT. A heretic. “A diamond among pebbles.” Who was this illiterate French peasant girl, who in fifteen months...

“It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss—This is true: For God so loved the world that He...

1. Prayer is a relationship of intimacy not a transaction that transmits information to a distant God. As with any relationship of...

This is a local interview with me by Ruth Davies of the Western Telegraph regarding our Christmas services and the Angels of Comfort and...

An interview with me by Kitty Parsons of Pembrokeshire online about my journey from India to Wales. This is Part 4 of the interview...

I remember hearing someone say, “I feel like there are parts of myself that have been lost along the way, and I don’t know if I can go...

The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, also known as the Parable of the Bad Tenants, is a parable of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew...

It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season. How I personally feel about this...

Born into a Maronite Catholic family, Jocelyne Khoueiry, who died on 31st July aged 65, went from being a Lebanese Christian resistance...

DURING his 1920 tour of Europe, the Indian convert to Christianity Sundar Singh (1889–1929?) was proclaimed a living “Apostle and a...