by Michael Murphy
A CLASH OF CULTURES One day in the 1990s, when I was making rounds as Head Hospital Chaplain at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a nurse approached me with a troubled face. She said, “Chaplain Mike, there is a Conservative Jewish patient here...
by Michael Murphy
My wife and I are long-time members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, an international group of men and women who help FINs (friends in need). Last Friday (January 30th, 2026), my wife and I met a man who was in his 40s. He was disabled and had a heart...
by Michael Murphy
Sometimes It Takes Two To Accomplish What One Man Cannot Do I grew up on a sixty-acre farm. My chores were to feed the chickens, geese, and ducks. Besides those chores, I had to milk our Guernsey cow twice a day for a quarter of a pail of rich milk, and one experience...
by Michael Murphy
Have you ever thought of writing a Christmas carol? Every year, the radio begins playing Christmas carols earlier and earlier. Whatever music idiom you listen to, along with the classical carols, people write lyrics and melodies that might be sacred, simple, clever,...
by Michael Murphy
Somewhere I read that if you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. A buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without...
