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

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...

What if I preached like John the Baptist? What if I was as blunt and direct as he is? What if one Sunday I began my sermon like this? “So...

Where is there light in your life and the world today? And where is there darkness in your life and the world today? I wouldn’t be...

An interview with me by Kitty Parsons of Pembrokeshire online about my journey from India to Wales. This is Part 3 of the interview....

The word "hope" in ordinary English vocabulary is generally distinguished from certainty. We would say, "I don't know what's going to...

After a tumultuous year, there is comfort to be found when we pause to read, pray, and reflect over the course of the Advent season in...

Today I am going to tell you the secret to life. You probably already know what I am going to tell you, though you may not have thought...

“And he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.” So what do you make of Matthew 25:...

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and “You shall love your...

…Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16 I think everyone disagrees on what makes a good cup of coffee. With today’s hot coffee trend,...

An interview with me by Kitty Parsons of Pembrokeshire online about my journey from India to Wales. This is Part 2 of the interview....

I shook my head in disbelief. This couldn't be the right place. After all, I couldn't possibly be welcome here. I had been given an...

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32). There may be no...

This is an interview done by Roy Jenkins of BBC Radio Wales on their program ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on the subject of Patience this...