Author: Paul Beasley-Murray

In this week when we are celebrating Valentine’s Day I have suddenly realised that it was 68 years ago that

Ash Wednesday marks the formal beginning of Lent. My question therefore is: how do we celebrate Lent? Every church knows

In the church’s lectionary tomorrow is the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, the occasion when Mary and Joseph went

In this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity I am preaching at the 11.15 Sunday morning service, one of the

Very few Baptist churches celebrate the Lord’s Supper every week, in most British churches it is only a monthly observance,

Godforsaken: The Cross – The Greatest Hope of All  (Hodder, London. 128pp: £9.99) by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, contains

This Christmas, as every Christmas, our family will gather around the Christmas tree for the opening of the presents. This

Two years ago today I took my mother’s funeral service at Brighton’s Woodvale Crematorium. We were in the middle of

This coming Sunday – the second Sunday in Advent – used to be celebrated as Bible Sunday in the UK.

Traditionally the third Sunday in Advent has been associated with the ministry of the church. So for instance in The