Rediscovering Christianity

Orthodoxy is speaking about our faith in ways that keep open the pilgrimage towards the mystery. *

With wise simplicity, on which I desire to share, Friends have said that in speaking of the works of Redeeming Love “we prefer the use of such terms as we find in Scripture; and contented with that knowledge which Divine wisdom hath seen meet to reveal, we attempt not to explain those mysteries which remain under the veil.” **

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? ***

Instead of pushing your body around with only your muscles and your mind, you learn to be guided from within… ****

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This is the blog of Mark Crozier Murphy, rediscovering Christianity as an adult. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand with my wife and kids. I work as a psychotherapist, belong to a local Anglican church, and practice contemplation, yoga, and Quaker spirituality.

This blog is made with the support and expertise of my son, Arlo, without whom I would still be yelling at this screen.

I aim to post new content every week or so - enough to keep things rolling, but not so often that I don’t have another life.

To get a sense of the vision for the blog, please see my first post here

Unless otherwise stated, all writing, drawings, and photographs are my own.

All quotes from the Bible, unless otherwise stated, are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), Catholic Edition. 

I hope you enjoy reading, looking, and listening in, and that it supports your own discoveries.

* Tim Radcliffe, What is the Point of Being a Christian? (2005).

** Caroline Stephen, Quaker Strongholds (orig.pub. 1980, 4th ed. 1939, xi), quoting Summary of the History, Doctrine and Discipline of the Society of Friends, published by the authority of the Meeting for Sufferings, in about 1790.

*** Jesus, in the Gospel of John, 3: 7-10.

**** Erich Schiffmann, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness (1996) p.49.