Mark Whittall

Have you ever had your mind blown? Some of you may know that I studied physics at university. One of the great things about studying physics is that it gives you a nice orderly view of how the world works. Maybe you remember high school physics, falling objects, blocks sliding down frictionless planes. The way it works is that you have matter, particles, blocks, whatever, and these material objects are acted upon by forces like gravity, and as a result they move. The nice

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I find it a challenge to take our Sunday readings and figure out how they are relevant for us today. Jesus was after all, speaking to people of a different era, living in a different culture some 2000 years ago. But not today. In today’s gospel it is as if Jesus is speaking directly to us, to our time and place. “Do not worry,” Jesus says. And he’s speaking to us. There’s a lot of worrying going on in our world, in our community, i