Mark Whittall

Hope you're all enjoying the summer. Just wanted to let you know that I have a new book out, this time in French. It's called Dans le...

Guylaine and I moved up to our summer cottage a few weeks ago, on the Gatineau River between Chelsea and Wakefield. It’s a beautiful...

Today we find ourselves in between the Ascension, which we celebrated on Thursday and Pentecost which we will celebrate next Sunday....

Last Sunday we had a Town Hall meeting after our 10am worship, as part of the process to find a new pastor for our St. Albans community. ...

April is the cruellest month. So writes the poet T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, as he surveys the bleak landscape of the First World War....

Holy Week begins with drama. With the deliberate acting out of ancient prophecies. The time and place, the symbols and the route are all...

“Jesus was in the wilderness for forty days; … and he was with the wild beasts.” What's up with that? What’s up with the wild beasts? As...

If someone were to ask you to write down four words that describe Jesus, what four words would you choose? Well, that is in fact what I’d...

Jesus’ public ministry begins With a single person. A captive. One human being who is oppressed. A child of God who is set free. What...

There are moments that matter. Moments where we no longer think of time as 10am on a Sunday morning, but rather we think of critical...

Sometimes I wish that I could take the dove that appears in today’s gospel and wring its pretty little neck. Because we get fooled by the...

In the bleak midwinter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron Water like a stone. It doesn’t take too much imagination to hear...

There is a pecking order in every society. A hierarchy of status, of power, of value, of privilege. There are people who are honoured,...