Author: Paul Beasley-Murray

On Monday morning 1st December the phone went at 2.30. It was a nurse informing me that my 98-year-old mother

Today’s blog is different, for this week the theme is not Church Matters, but Family Matters. For tomorrow Caroline begins

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime”. So wrote Frank Bauman in The Marvelous Land of Oz, a sequel

My first experience of taking a funeral in ‘lockdown’ was in July. It was a graveside service with only twenty

My book of the month is Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times (Hodder & Stoughton,

In his book, A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal (SPCK, London 2019) Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal

If we want to get the best from volunteers in our churches, then appreciation is what is required.

I have recently read with great interest a highly stimulating guide to funerals by Thomas G. Long, a Professor of

Christian worship, declared Karl Barth, “is the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take place