Mark Whittall

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,...

Many years ago, as part of my training for ordained ministry, I had an internship in the Seychelles Islands. The Seychelles are a cluster...

We are in the wilderness. The gospel, the good news, begins in the wilderness. And let’s dispense here with any romantic notion of...

The French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote that “waiting in hope is the foundation of the spiritual life.” We’re doing a lot of...

Sometimes we like to make things complicated, when really they are quite simple. Sometimes we do that with the gospel reading that we...

Today, I want to do something a little different. I want to use today’s parable of the talents to take us on a guided meditation, and...

Stuff matters. I like that. I like living in a world where stuff matters. Where if I put in the extra effort, I can get an A on that...

This is Jesus’ first sermon, and his great manifesto. It is a vision of transformation. It is a call to action. It is an invitation to a...

Finally something which they can all agree on! After three days of conflict and disagreement in the Temple, finally something upon which...