Mark Whittall

"Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit...

Today on this third Sunday of Advent, we light a candle for joy. For we are people who were created for joy.   Our first three readings...

What truth do you belong to?   That’s not where we begin on this Sunday that we call the Reign of Christ.  But that’s where we’re...

Yesterday, on All Souls Day, at our beautiful choral evensong, we remembered those who have died.   Today, on All Saints Sunday, we...

The book of Job that we have been reading this past month is one of the most challenging, profound and, I dare say, relevant books of the...

On this day of Thanksgiving, let me start with a question:   Is thanksgiving a feeling or an action?   Or put another way, during this...

Last Saturday the five residents of Trinity House and I had a retreat together. It’s an important part of how we begin a new year of...

Sometimes Jesus speaks a word that remains so vivid, so pivotal in the imagination of the people who heard it, that when they wrote down...

Why does hypocrisy drive Jesus bananas?   I mean, throughout the gospels we see so many instances of Jesus being caring and compassionate...

Last Sunday I spoke to you about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. We go on pilgrimage because we are looking for something less....

One of the things I like best about walking the Camino in northern Spain is getting to know your walking companions and listening to...

Each one of us wakes up every day of our lives with assumptions about what’s possible and what’s not possible. What would life be like if...

Have you ever had your plans thwarted? Imagine that you’ve planned to go with your family on a much-needed vacation, a break from the...