Mark Whittall

Some folks say that we shouldn’t even be celebrating Easter this year. That we can’t celebrate Easter, not really, not when we can’t...

I don’t know about you, but I struggle to make sense of the gospel that we just heard. On one level it is a tragic episode in human...

The juxtaposition on this Sunday of Jesus’ triumphant Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem with the long reading of the Passion of our...

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” These words were written by Julian of Norwich, a...

This has been another crazy week. The new reality of life in a time of COVID-19 is sinking in. Words like social distancing and...

So this has been quite a week. It’s been a week of disruption. We’re still reeling from the announcements about COVID-19. I think that...

The law is meant to be life-giving. Life-giving for you, and for your neighbour. We don’t always think of law that way. Sometimes it’s...

(A sermon shared with divinity students at Huron College in London) Two questions. Two questions that sound similar at first, but really...

Have you ever looked for the territories of Zebulun and Naphtali on a map? If you have a smartphone you can try it if you like. Type in...

“What are you looking for?” These are the first words spoken by Jesus in the gospel of John. What are you looking for? What do you want...

It’s a little awkward isn’t it? Jesus comes from Galilee to be baptized by John at the Jordan river. But John doesn’t want to baptize...

You have heard it said that it is better to give than to receive. But the reading that we just heard, the beautiful prologue to the...

We don’t read Matthew’s version of the Christmas story very often. Maybe that’s because Matthew’s account, told from the perspective of...