Author: Paul Beasley-Murray

The writer to the Hebrews describes Jesus as a ‘liturgist’ (leitourgos): as our high priest he is “a minister in

It is hard for people to see the importance of worship when their experience of worship is generally not glorious.

Just the other day my attention was drawn to one of the prayers of St Francis of Assisi:  May the

As I wrote last week, prayers, like Scripture, come alive in a new context. This was certainly my experience when

Prayers, like Scripture, often come alive in a particular context. One such prayer is the so-called serenity prayer written by

Of all the seven deadly sins, sloth’ is the most archaic of names. The dictionary defines sloth as ‘laziness, indolence’.

Anger is not necessarily wrong. Righteous anger, directed against some form of evil, may well be Christian love in operation.

Jesus had some strong words to say about lust: “everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed

Courtesy of American Express, Mastercard and Visa covetousness is now made easy. In the words of one advertising slogan, credit

Ever since the time of Cain and Abel envy has been with us. To paraphrase the words of the Apostle